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 11.16

11.16

They were all perplexed.
None of them had the fortitude
To take on such an act. {13}

“ ‘Then I developed the intention
That I would provide the food for the bhikṣu,
Cutting off pieces of my own flesh
And using for lotion my own blood. {14}

“ ‘I cut into my own thighs
And obtained the flesh and blood.
I myself cooked the pieces of flesh
And added various flavorings. {15}

“ ‘In the presence of my father
I gave to the sick bhikṣu
The meal of human flesh
And the lotion of blood. {16}

“ ‘Lord of men, listen to my words!
Sovereign, there not being any human flesh,
I cut the flesh from my own thighs,
And having cooked it gave it to the dharmabhāṇaka. {17}

“ ‘It was for the sake of the highest enlightenment
That I accomplished this great purpose with my body.
The bhikṣu is cured and returned to health
And I have created immeasurable merit.’ {18}

“The king inquired of his daughter,
‘How did you cut the flesh from your body?
Daughter, when you engaged in creating this remedy,
Did you not suffer from physical pain?’ {19}

“The wise and fearless princess replied to him,
‘King, lord of the earth, listen!
Having listened, understand correctly
The inconceivable ripening of karma. {20}

“ ‘Father, through having done bad actions,
Beings fall into dreadful hell.
They lose their flesh, and again have flesh.
See the inconceivable result of actions! {21}

“ ‘Through bad karma they have no flesh or blood,
And in an instant they again have flesh and blood.
Therefore, needless to say that, because of good karma,
Through aspiration flesh and blood will be created. {22}

“ ‘I had no pain when I cut my flesh.
When the blood flowed I did not become dizzy.
Even if I were to cut off all of my flesh,
The body of the Dharma would have no wound or cut. {23}

“ ‘Feeling perfect joy in the Dharma,
I cut the flesh to be given from my thighs.
I had no suffering because of the wounds,