འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་ཡལ་བསམ་གྱས་མ་ཁྱབ་པ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.7

2.7

wisdom through eight modes. What are these eight? They are these: one purifies wisdom through being learned about (1) the aggregates, (2) the constituents, (3) the sense fields, (4) dependent origination, (5) the truths, (6) the sense faculties, (7) the three doors of liberation, and (8) how to destroy predispositions, fetters, and all views. Friends, through these eight modes, one purifies wisdom.

“Friends, one purifies the higher perceptions through eight modes. What are these eight? They are these: one purifies (1) the divine eye by seeing all forms without hindrance; (2) the divine ear by hearing all sounds without hindrance; (3) knowledge of others’ minds by observing the mental activity of all sentient beings; (4) knowledge of past lives by recalling the beginning of the world without hindrance or attachment; (5) miraculous manifestation by traveling to limitless buddhafields;²⁶ (6) the ability to eliminate all afflictions by knowing how to do so, and by abandoning all that is inopportune; (7) higher perceptions through one’s roots of virtue that give respite from all deception and vanity; and (8) teaching one’s knowledge by instigating in others the experience one has formerly had oneself. Friends, through these eight modes, one purifies the higher perceptions.

“Friends, one purifies gnosis through eight modes. What are these eight? They are these: one purifies (1) knowledge of suffering by completely knowing the five aggregates;