[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Samādhirājasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja) › [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo) › [The King of Samadhis Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000) › 2.3 # 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 2.3 The King of Samādhis Sūtra 2.3 - **Language:** English ### [2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.3) \[25\] It is that which is difficult to approach. \[26\] It is great majesty.²⁶³ \[27\] It is self-knowledge. “\[28\] It is the absence of inconstancy. \[29\] It is maintaining perfect behavior. \[30\] It is the absence of malice. \[31\] It is the absence of aggression. \[32\] It is not harming others. \[33\] It is taking care of companions. ²⁶⁴ \[34\] It is guarding secret mantras. “\[35\] It is being nonviolent.²⁶⁵ \[36\] It is not being harmful to those with correct conduct. \[37\] It is speaking gently. “\[38\] It is not remaining anywhere in the three realms. \[39\] It is the patience that accords with the emptiness of all phenomena.²⁶⁶ \[40\] It is the aspiration to omniscient wisdom.²⁶⁷ “That, young man, is what is meant by ‘samādhi.’ Young man, practicing those qualities and not practicing their opposite is what is meant by ‘samādhi.’ ” Then the Bhagavān taught the samādhi, the revealed equality of the nature of all phenomena, and at that time gave a detailed teaching by chanting the following extensive verses to the youth Candraprabha.²⁶⁸ “I have opened the door to the elixir. I have explained what the nature of phenomena is. I have taught what births are. I have explained nirvāṇa and its benefits. {1} “Always avoid sinful companions, Be in the company of good companions, Dwell in the forest, avoiding crowds, And always meditate with a loving mind. {2} “Always protect pure conduct, Gain the prosperity of renunciation, Be familiar with generosity and wisdom, And this samādhi will not be difficult to attain. {3} “This is not the level of the numerous śrāvakas. When you have attained²⁶⁹ this level of peace, You will have the direct perception of the Sugata’s Dharma And you will attain the inconceivable buddha qualities. {4} “When you see wise people who are worthy vessels, Bring them to the aspiration for enlightenment, Establish them in the highest knowledge, And then this king of samādhis will not be difficult to attain. {5} “This samādhi is not difficult to attain For those who understand the natural results That come²⁷⁰ to those who become envious of wealth²⁷¹ And to those who seek and enjoy it.²⁷² {6} - [Previous: 2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.2) - [Next: 2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.4) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་མཉམ་པ་ཉིད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲོས་པ་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo.2.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samadhiraja*bo~en-84000.2.3) · Pramāṇa