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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 5.16

The King of Samādhis Sūtra 5.16

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5.16

“It will be hard to find among a hundred, a thousand,⁶²⁸
One who has the power of patience.
Therefore there will be many who are deeply involved in quarreling.
They will explain elaborately, having rejected patience. {20}

“They will say the words, ‘I am a bodhisattva,’
And those words will spread in every direction.
They will become conceited⁶²⁹ through their arrogant, false words,⁶³⁰
But how can there be enlightenment for someone whose conduct has gone astray? {21}

“I have never heard of, nor have I seen,
Someone whose motivation is not pure
And who has no patience for these phenomena,
Attaining enlightenment after discarding the Dharma. {22}

“It is through fear and anxiety they will have abandoned their homes
And held firmly to the homeless life.
But having acute desires they will proceed toward destruction,
Forsaking the way of the supreme humans. {23}⁶³¹

“They will have inferior wisdom and be devoid of good qualities,
And they will always be criticizing the supreme yāna.
They will always be talking about the hundreds of faults
Of that in which they have taken refuge. {24}⁶³²

“Many will have entered homelessness because they had no livelihood.
They will have no wish at all for the enlightenment of buddhahood.
Those foolish ones will maintain the view of a self
And become afraid when they hear of emptiness. {25}

“They will quarrel with each other⁶³³
And develop intractable evil malice.
They will say unpleasant things to each other
And find great joy in having done bad things. {26}

“Those who have correct conduct will have good qualities.
They will always remain loving and be skilled in patience.
They will be perfectly gentle, kind, and controlled—
Yet they will be the ones despised at that time. {27}

“Those who have wicked minds,
Who are dreadful, and accomplish terrible, very low actions,
Those whose conduct is not that of the Dharma and who enjoy fighting:
They will have offerings made to them at that time. {28}

“I declare this, I know this.
Young man, if you have faith in me,
Remember this teaching by the Sugata
And never depend on those others. {29}

“They will have strong desire and strong anger.
They will have strong ignorance and be conceited and arrogant.
They will have unrestrained bodies and unrestrained speech
And unrestrained minds, and will descend to the lower existences. {30}

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