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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 1.7

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 1.7

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1.7

It is the knowledge of engaging in discernment. It is the knowledge of the different kinds of letters and words. It is the transcendence of matter. It is the understanding of sounds. It is the attainment of joy. It is experiencing the joy of the Dharma. It is sincerity.⁶² It is tolerance.⁶³ It is to be without deception.⁶⁴

“It is to be without frowns. It is to be pleasant.⁶⁵ It is to have correct conduct.⁶⁶ It is to be friendly.⁶⁷ It is to be gentle.⁶⁸ It is having a smiling face.⁶⁹ It is being courteous.⁷⁰ It is to be welcoming.⁷¹

“It is to be without laziness.⁷² It is having veneration⁷³ for the guru.⁷⁴ It is respect⁷⁵ for the guru. It is being content with occurrences. It is never being satisfied with the good actions one has done. It is having a pure livelihood. It is not forsaking the solitary life.

“It is the knowledge of successive levels. It is always maintaining mindfulness. It is being wise concerning the skandhas. It is being wise concerning the dhātus. It is being wise concerning the āyatanas. It is making one’s higher cognitions manifest to others.

“It is the elimination of kleśas. It is ceasing engagement with propensities.⁷⁶ It is having specific attainments.⁷⁷ It is the natural result of meditation.⁷⁸

“It is skillfulness in eliminating transgressions.⁷⁹ It is the prevention of the arising of bad actions. It is the elimination of attachment.⁸⁰

“It is transcending the existences. It is the memory of previous rebirths. It is being free from doubt concerning the ripening of karma.

“It is the contemplation of phenomena. It is seeking to hear the Dharma. It is having sharp knowledge. It is craving for wisdom. It is the realization of wisdom.

“It is the level of a noble being.⁸¹ It is having a mind like a mountain. It is being unshakable. It is being immovable. It is the knowledge of the nature of the level of irreversibility.

“It is having the natural result of good qualities.⁸² It is the abhorrence of bad qualities. It is being free of behavior caused by the kleśas. It is never abandoning the training.

“It is being established in samādhi. It is the knowledge of the thoughts of beings. It is the knowledge of the various rebirths of beings. It is knowledge of the infinite.⁸³ It is the knowledge of the intended meaning of words.⁸⁴

“It is the rejection of living in a home. It is finding no joy in the three realms. It is having a motivation that is not discouraged. It is having no attachment to phenomena.

“It is having possession of the sacred Dharma. It is protecting the Dharma. It is conviction in the ripening of karma. It is skill in the vinaya.

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