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 8.14

8.14

Those are the benefits of diligence.⁸⁹⁹ {8–9}⁹⁰⁰

“They digest pleasurably, without harm,
That which they eat and drink. {10}
They gradually develop
Like a blue lotus in the middle of water.⁹⁰¹

“In that way the bodhisattvas
Develop through good qualities. {11}
The days and the nights
Pass fruitfully for them.⁹⁰²

“The Tathāgata who has engaged in diligence,
Gaining accomplishments for numerous eons,
Has taught to the bodhisattvas
These benefits of possessing diligence. {12}

“Those who engage in diligence
Are in the care of the jinas.
The devas, too, make aspirations for them.
They will soon attain the Buddha’s enlightenment. {13}

“What they have learned will never diminish,
And they give many other Dharma teachings.
Their confidence of speech increases immensely.
Those are the benefits of engaging in diligence. {14}

“They will quickly attain the lineage of samādhis.
They will never become ill.
Whatever food they eat
They will comfortably digest completely. {15}

“Day and night the good qualities
Of their powerful diligence increase.
Through the power of this diligence,
Before long they will attain enlightenment. {16}

“Young man, there are ten benefits for bodhisattva mahāsattvas from being devoted to meditation. What are the ten benefits? They are: [1] they maintain their bodhisattva conduct; [2] they engage in the field of that conduct;⁹⁰³ [3] they live free from anguish; [4] their sensory faculties are protected;⁹⁰⁴ [5] they experience pleasure;⁹⁰⁵ [6] they are separated from desire; [7] they have insatiability for meditation; [8] they are free from the domain of Māra; [9] they are established in the domain of the Buddha; and [10] they ripen the state of liberation.

“Young man, those are the ten benefits for the bodhisattva mahāsattvas from being devoted to meditation.”

On this topic, it was said:

“They are never without bodhisattva conduct,
As they are established in bodhisattva conduct.
The yogins practice the field of that conduct,
And reject that which is not the field of that conduct. {17}

“They live without anguish.
Their senses hidden and bound,
They experience pleasure.