འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 78

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“The seventh development of aspiration is like a head merchant who is wealthy with great treasure because it is a perfect adornment; it brings freedom from the wilderness of saṃsāra and fulfills all wishes. Its cause is the perfection of skill in methods.

“The eighth development of aspiration is like the pure disk of the full moon, because it completes purification from all obscurations. Its cause is the perfection of prayer.

“The ninth development of aspiration is like the fulfillment of all wishes, because it is the domain of all the displays of the qualities of the pure buddha realms. Its cause is the perfection of strength.

“The tenth development of aspiration is like space because it has the way of the characteristics of a cakravartin due to having attained the consecration of mastery over all qualities, wisdom, and Dharmas. Its cause is the perfection of knowledge.

“Noble one, those are a bodhisattva’s ten developments of aspiration. Through having these one is called a bodhisattva, but ultimately, there is no enlightenment, there is no bodhisattva, and there is no aspiration of enlightenment.

“Noble one, there are ten qualities that are preliminaries to the perfection of generosity of a bodhisattva. What are the ten? They are (1) the preliminary of the power of faith; (2) the preliminary of contemplation; (3) the preliminary of superior aspiration; (4) the preliminary of the perfections; (5) the preliminary of great love; (6) the preliminary of great compassion; (7) the preliminary of being a support for beings; (8) the preliminary of the methods of gathering beings; (9) the preliminary of desiring the Dharma of the buddhas; and (10) the preliminary of wishing for omniscient wisdom.