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 2.15

2.15

do not exist,
The ‘concordant patience’ they have is of lesser kind. {3}

“But if a person maintains a patience that is great,²⁹⁹
Even were they cut up, for ten million eons,
Into tiny pieces as numerous as the Ganges sands,
Their mind will never regress. {4}

“Why is this termed ‘patience’?
And why is it called ‘concordant’?
For what reason is it said to be ‘nonregressive’?
And why are they called ‘bodhisattvas’? {5}

“Their patience being for the selfless nature of phenomena,
Those who perceive selflessness have no kleśas.
They know that all phenomena are like space.
That, therefore, is what is termed ‘patience.’ {6}

“They train in accord with all the jinas.
Those wise ones do not practice non-Dharma.
They do not doubt the Buddha’s Dharma.
That is the patience that is ‘concordant.’ {7}

“Even if all the māras in the world transformed
Into buddhas and said to such practitioners,
‘Enlightenment is too difficult! So become a śrāvaka!’
They would not believe those words and would not regress. {8}

“If they know of the incorrect view of beings
They say, ‘This is not the path to deathlessness!’³⁰⁰
So that they reject the wrong path and are brought to the true path.³⁰¹
That is the reason why they are called bodhisattvas.³⁰² {9}

“They remain upon the path of concordant patience
And are awake through the knowledge of selflessness.
Even in a dream they do not believe
In humans, persons, souls, or beings. {10}

“Even if as many millions of māras as there are Ganges sands
Came before them in the forms of buddhas,
And said to them that there is a soul within the body,
They would reply that it was not so and say, ‘You are not buddhas.’³⁰³ {11}

“Through wisdom I know that the skandhas are empty.
Because I know that, I am unaccompanied by kleśas.
In my conduct I use mere words
But within this world remain within nirvāṇa, {12}

“Just as when a man has a son born to him
And gives him a name, saying, ‘This is his name!’
But that name cannot be found anywhere.
And that name did not come from anywhere. {13}

“In that way the name ‘bodhisattva’ is given,