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འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.16

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 1.16

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1.16

And more, to the number of sand grains in the Ganges,
Residing on Vulture Peak Mountain
And teaching this supreme samādhi, this peace. {12}

“All of them had the name Śākyaṛṣabha.
All of their sons were named Rāhula.
All their attendants were named Ānanda.
All were mendicants from places named Kapilavastu.¹⁹⁰ {13}

“Their principal two students¹⁹¹ were Kolita and Śāriputra,
The names of all the saviors were the same,
The names of their worlds were the same,
And they all appeared in a time of degeneration. {14}

“While I practiced this bodhisattva conduct,
I honored all those lords of men.
While I longed for this samādhi,
There was nothing I did not offer to the jinas. {15}

“This samādhi is attained through practicing.
Its practice has been taught in many forms.
This samādhi is not difficult to attain
For those who are established in all good qualities. {16}

“This samādhi is not difficult to attain
For those who do not grasp pleasures, who have no cravings,¹⁹²
Who have no attachment to family, and are without envy,
Who are continually kind, and are without anger. {17}

“This samādhi is not difficult to attain
For those who do not desire honor or gain,
Whose subsistence is pure, who have nothing,
Whose conduct is pure, and who are without fear. {18}

“This samādhi is not difficult to attain
For those who are diligent, without lassitude,
And who are inclined to solitude, established in purification,
And continually remain in the patience of selflessness. {19}

“This samādhi is not difficult to attain
For those who are not agitated, who have a well-tamed mind,
Who remain within the conduct of mendicants and bodhisattvas,¹⁹³
And who are predisposed toward generosity and are without miserliness. {20}

“The primary and secondary signs, the eighteen qualities of a buddha,
The strengths, and the fearlessnesses that have been described by the Guide
Will not be difficult to attain for one
Who maintains this samādhi of peace. {21}

“If all the beings that a buddha can see
Were simultaneously to attain buddhahood,
And the length of each of their lives
Were to be countless tens of thousands of millions of eons, {22}

“And if each of them were to have heads

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