འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 88

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to you the general and specific purities of the pāramitās. In that regard, the general purity of all pāramitās should be understood through seven aspects. What are the seven? They are as follows: through those qualities of a bodhisattva, not seeking profit or fame from others; not holding views that dogmatically cling to those dharmas; not generating doubt and hesitation thinking, "Do these dharmas definitely lead to bodhi or not?"; not praising oneself, not deprecating others, and not looking down on them; not becoming proud and not being heedless; not being content with just a little or with modest attainments; and not being stingy with those dharmas and not feeling jealousy toward others. The individual, distinct purities of the pāramitās should also be understood as sevenfold. What are the seven distinct aspects? As follows: What I have taught as the seven purities of giving—giving with purity of the gift itself, purity of discipline, purity of view, purity of mind, purity of speech, purity of knowledge, and purity of stains—when a bodhisattva genuinely undertakes and abides by them, that is the sevenfold purity of giving. As follows: when a bodhisattva holds vows, being skilled in all aspects of the training bases, being skilled in recovering from downfalls, possessing definitive discipline therein, possessing steadfast discipline, practicing constantly, engaging continuously, and genuinely taking up and training in the training bases—that is the sevenfold purity of discipline. As follows: when all manner of harm arises from all quarters, not being perturbed because one relies on the ripening of one's own karma;