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 8.8

8.8

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“Young man, in what way should bodhisattva mahāsattvas be skillful in methods? For that, young man, bodhisattva mahāsattvas focus their minds upon all beings. Those bodhisattva mahāsattvas rejoice in whatever roots of merit and accumulations of merit all beings have. Three times every day and three times every night they rejoice in whatever roots of merit and accumulations of merit all beings have, and the roots of merit and accumulation of merit that come from their taking omniscience as the focus of their aspiration they donate to all beings.

“Young man, because those bodhisattva mahāsattva possess the accumulation of merit that comes from being skillful in methods, they will quickly attain this samādhi, and they will quickly attain the highest, complete enlightenment of perfect buddhahood.”

Thereupon the Bhagavān spoke these verses:

“Three times a day and three times a night
I develop the aspiration to enlightenment
And rejoice in the entirety of the merit accumulated
By all these beings who are my family. {1}

“I rejoice in those who have pure conduct,
Who will do nothing bad even to save their lives.
I rejoice in whatever merit is possessed
By bodhisattvas with perfect aspiration. {2}

“I rejoice in those who have faith in the Buddha,
Faith in the Dharma, and also the Saṅgha.
I rejoice in those who make offerings to the Sugata
Because of their desire for enlightenment.⁸⁷⁷ {3}

“I rejoice in those who develop the aspiration
For the highest, supreme, unsurpassable enlightenment,
Doing so with great understanding, for the sake of beings,
And so that the lineage of enlightenment will remain.⁸⁷⁸ {i}

“I rejoice in the bodhisattvas overwhelmed by compassion
Who give away their wealth, grain, and jewels,
Their queens, sons, and daughters,
Their vast kingdoms, and even their own flesh.⁸⁷⁹ {ii}

“I rejoice in those who give away their own bodies
With joyful minds for the sake of beings,
Having trained in the training of skillful methods