འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 39

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and wisdom, yet are upright and of an upright disposition, capable of thinking and investigating, and not clinging dogmatically to their own views—upon hearing that teaching, although they do not truly understand my intended meaning as it actually is, nevertheless have faith in that teaching and attain confidence, thinking: 'These sūtras taught by the Tathāgata are profound, appear profound, are endowed with emptiness, difficult to see, difficult to realize, impossible to fathom, beyond the sphere of speculative logic, and known by the subtle, investigating, learned, and wise.' Regarding the meaning presented in those sūtras, they think: 'I do not understand,' and remain saying: 'The bodhi of the Buddhas is profound, and the dharmatā of dharmas is also profound; only the Tathāgata knows it, whereas we do not know it. The Tathāgatas' teaching of the Dharma enters beings according to their various inclinations; the Tathāgatas possess boundless knowledge and vision, whereas our knowledge and vision are merely like the footprint of a cow.' Having venerated those sūtras, they copy them, and having written them down, they retain them, read them, distribute them properly, worship them, receive the transmission, recite them, and chant them; yet, because they do not realize this profound intended meaning of mine, they are unable to apply themselves to cultivating it through meditation. On that basis, they increase their accumulation of merit and also increase their accumulation of wisdom, and gradually cause their unripened mindstreams to become fully ripened. Furthermore, if, among those beings, there are those who have not properly gathered up to the great accumulations of merit and wisdom,