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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 12.20

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 12.20

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### [12.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.12.20)

“ ‘May the bodhisattvas who have the power of compassion,  
The heroes who act in this world to benefit beings,  
Give their protection to me, who have done such evil things:  
I go to those bodhisattvas for refuge. {vi}  
  
“ ‘Secondly, those who are pratyekabuddhas,¹²⁵⁰  
And also śrāvakas with miraculous powers,  
Whose outflows have ceased and are in their last body,  
Save me from the suffering of being reborn in the Avīci hell!’ ” {vii}  
  
Then at that time the Bhagavān said to Ānanda, “In that way, Ānanda, the bodhisattva mahāsattva has no attachment to life or body. Why is that? Because, Ānanda, beings who have attachment to life and body create bad karma.  
  
On this topic it was said:  
  
“Beings who have attachment  
To this body, which is constantly rotting,  
And to this life, unstable and powerless,  
Which is like a dream or an illusion, {viii}  
  
“They fall under the power of ignorance  
And create extremely dreadful karma.  
Devoid of wisdom, following Māra,¹²⁵¹  
They are reborn in the terrible hells. {ix}  
  
“Those humans who are indifferent  
To their bodies, which are like lumps of foam,  
And their lives, which are like water bubbles,  
Will become supreme beings.” {x}  
  
Then the Bhagavān said to Brother Ānanda, “Ānanda, in that way bodhisattva mahāsattvas who wish for this samādhi, and wish to attain quickly the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood, should train in this samādhi, and should have no regard for their bodies or lives. They should be as diligently dedicated as they would if their hair or clothes were on fire, and have great compassion for all beings. For example, they should give up living happily in solitude, solitary places, and forests, and enter the villages, the towns, the market towns, the regions, the kingdom, the capital, and district capitals,¹²⁵² and there teach the Dharma to beings so that beings can attain irreversible progress toward the enlightenment of the śrāvaka, irreversible progress toward the enlightenment of the pratyekabuddha, or irreversible progress toward the highest, complete enlightenment.”¹²⁵³

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