འཕགས་པ་སང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4

4

How do possessions cease to diminish?
How does one become distinguished
Wherever one is born?” {25}

“Wealth is obtained through nonattachment.⁵⁴
Possessions increase by being without stinginess.
One will be distinguished wherever one is born
By being without jealousy.”⁵⁵ {26}

“How does one obtain divine sight?
How does one obtain divine hearing?
And how, O Guide, does one know
The dying, transmigration, and rebirth of beings?”⁵⁶ {27}

“Divine sight is obtained by giving lamps.
The ear is purified⁵⁷ by giving music.
The dying, transmigration, and rebirth of beings are known through wisdom.⁵⁸
Thus do these accomplishments arise.” {28}

“O Guide, how do the defilements of bodhisattvas⁵⁹
Come to be exhausted?
How do they recollect previous lives?
How do they obtain miraculous powers?”⁶⁰ {29}

“The miraculous powers are obtained by offering vehicles.
The recollections are gained by cultivating⁶¹ mindfulness.
They reach the cessation of defilements
By fully abandoning the two extremes.” {30}

“How is the buddhafield perfected?
How is its saṅgha perfected?
How does its light shine perfectly
Such that the ten directions are illuminated?”⁶² {31}⁶³

“The buddhafield is perfected through aspiration.
The saṅgha is perfected by magnetizing disciples.⁶⁴
The ten directions are illuminated brightly
By offering jeweled canopies.” {32}

“By what quality⁶⁵ does one attain
The embodiment⁶⁶ of all qualities,
So that a bodhisattva⁶⁷ will be dear to beings
Wherever they are born?”⁶⁸ {33}

“By surrendering the mind to the purpose of awakening
In order to liberate all beings,⁶⁹
They attain the embodiment of all qualities
And will thus be held dear.” {34}

“In what instruction should one train,
And how should one cultivate the mind,
To become an omniscient teacher
Like you, Great Sage?” {35}⁷⁰

“If one trains in being impartial
To all beings without exception,
And if the mind is cultivated in that impartiality,
One will become an all-surpassing victorious one.” {36}

“Throughout all one’s lives,
How will the mind of awakening
Never be abandoned even in a dream,