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 15.11

15.11

and having received many teachings.

“What is putting roots of merit first? It is having a strong longing for enlightenment and also inspring that in others.

“What is skill in methods? It is being skilled in confession, rejoicing, supplication, and the dedication of the roots of goodness.

“What is the negation of attributes? It is realizing that all phenomena are like a dream, and the extinction of things.

“What is turning away from conceptualization? It is the rejection of error.

“What is the knowledge of the characteristics of things?¹⁴³³ It is the knowledge of things having no characteristics.

“What is skill in the accomplishment of the sūtras? It is teaching through describing accurately the understanding of, and the examples for, good and bad qualities.

“What is certainty in the truth? It is the cessation of consciousness, and the nonarising of names-and-form.

“What is the direct experience of liberation? It is not wavering from the samādhi that is like a vajra.

“What is the single teaching? It is not being reborn in the inferior state of a tīrthika.

“What is the attainment of fearlessness? It is understanding the Buddha’s Dharma and developing the strength of dhyāna.¹⁴³⁴

“What is the basis¹⁴³⁵ of correct conduct? It is the restraint of the body and the prātimokṣa vows.

“What is entering into samāpatti? It is being free of desire for the three existences.

“What is the attainment of wisdom? It is the knowledge of power and having no objectification.

“What is delighting in solitude? It is avoiding the faults from being with others and not forsaking good qualities.

“What is contentment with having no high reputation? It is being pleased with whatever there is.

“What is the absence of pollution in the mind? It is the suppression of the obscurations.

“What is rejecting incorrect views? It is rejecting the view of objective reality.

“What is the attainment of mental retention?