འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 23

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And subsequently reach awakening beyond anguish.

“Having obtained immaculate awakening, great awakening,
They will turn the sublime wheel of Dharma,
Whereby they will establish beings in the supreme awakening of buddhahood,
Transcending anguish just as rainfall quenches flames.

“The guide of humans, the charioteer of humans,
Is the single field of merit, the single mount of merit.
If people simply develop faith toward that buddha,
They will instantly discard all unfree states.

“Those who recite the name of this well-gone one
Will obtain human bodies and gain leisure.
Then these wise persons will create merit
In the limitless ocean wherein the thus-gone ones dwell.

“Those who chant the name of this buddha
A mere one hundred thousand times will attain concordant acceptance
And the attainment of the divine eye, just as I did.¹⁶

“When I saw the Buddha Dīpaṃkara I scattered flowers
And thereby attained acceptance.
They will acquire that sort of acceptance.

“Only those who are extremists,
Or who suffer from jealousy
Would not want teachings
Upon hearing the name of this illuminating sage who protects the world.

“Those who hear such a discourse taught
Directly from the guide, the Buddha,
Will remember it in the future
And teach it to others.

“Young man, located above this buddha realm, as in the previous analogy, past as many realms as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, there is a world called Wide Open. There the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha Stable in Immeasurable Diligence lives. He is alive and well and teaches the Dharma. Young man, when those noble sons or daughters who abide in the Great Vehicle hear the name of the thus-gone one Stable in Immeasurable Diligence—as long as they do not doubt this