དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.25
The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 3.25
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3.25
“The wisdom of the buddhas, the supreme humans,
Is superior and beautiful,
Unique in all these worlds,
And a magnificent form that is worthy of homage. {92}
“The strengths, the dhyānas, and likewise the liberations,
And numerous millions of samādhis,
They are the most excellent cart,²⁰⁸
Which the Buddha’s sons continually enjoy. {93}
“They spend nights enjoying it,
And days, half-months, and months,
And likewise years and intermediate eons.
They spend ten billion eons doing so. {94}
“It is this excellent cart made of jewels
That goes from here to the Bodhimaṇḍa,
Which the Sugata’s śrāvakas listen to
And which many bodhisattvas enjoy. {95}
“Tiṣya, you should know this today:
You may search in all ten directions,
But there is no second yāna whatsoever
Other than as a skillful method of the superior beings. {96}
“I am your father and you are my sons.
I have saved you from the suffering
Of being burned for many millions of eons
Within the terrifying three realms. {97}
“I have thus taught you nirvāṇa.
You are freed from the suffering of saṃsāra,
But you have still not attained nirvāṇa.
You need to seek the yāna of buddhahood. {98}
“You bodhisattvas who are gathered here,
Listen to my way to buddhahood.
Through this many bodhisattvas are trained.
This is the skillful method of the jinas. {99}
“When beings take delight
In the lower, inferior yāna,²⁰⁹
At that time the Guide of the World teaches nothing
Other than the ārya’s truth of suffering. {100}
“There are those with foolish minds
Who, being ignorant, do not see the source of suffering.
To them I teach the path that craving
Is the origin of the arising of suffering. {101}
“The cessation of craving²¹⁰ is perpetual nonattachment.²¹¹
This truth of cessation is my third truth.
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- དམ་པའི་ཆོས་པད་མ་དཀར་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan