དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.16

8.16

“And also, for the sake of buddhahood’s wisdom,
Maintaining correct conduct
And praising indefatigably
The buddhas with pure praises; {22}

“And also meditating on patience,
Being established on the level of discipline,
Being stable, and having mindfulness,
And being patient with criticism; {23}

“And for the sake of buddhahood’s wisdom
Enduring abuse from those
Beings who believe in objective reality
And who are fixed in their arrogance; {24}

“And also being always diligently dedicated,
Having stable mindfulness and application,
Without having a thought about anything else
For millions of eons; {25}

“And remaining in the forests,
Walking upon the walkways,
Practicing for ten million eons,
Forsaking sleep and sloth; {26}

“And having meditation, great meditation,
Delighting in meditation, and being concentrated,
Practicing meditation for no less
Than eighty thousand million eons— {27}

“That person who is a hero with that meditation,
And aspires for the highest enlightenment,
Thinking, ‘May I become omniscient!’
And reaches the perfection of meditation— {28}

“I have previously described
The merit that person will have
By maintaining that activity
For ten thousand million eons. {29}

“Yet a person, whether male or female,
Who has heard of this my lifespan
And has faith in it for even an instant
Will have merit that is limitless. {30}

“Rejecting doubts,
Deceit, and arrogance,
And aspiring for a moment,
Will have this kind of result. {31}

“When the bodhisattvas who have practiced
For ten million eons
Hear of my inconceivable lifespan,
They do not reject it.⁴⁶⁵ {32}

“They bow down their heads and say,
‘May I too in a future time
Become like this
And liberate millions of beings. {33}

“ ‘Just as Lord Śākyamuni,
The great Muni, the Śākya Lion,
Sat upon the Bodhimaṇḍa
And roared his lion’s roar, {34}