འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.11

3.11

“Why is that? The merit that comes from offering has a number, has a measure, while the merit of rejoicing in the union of all merit is measureless and numberless. Therefore, it unites all the merit of the three times, and so if someone³⁶¹ wishes to multiply special roots of goodness, they should accomplish the merit of rejoicing in this way.

“If a woman wishes to transform her female body and achieve a male body, then if she accomplishes the merit from rejoicing, without doubt she will truly accomplish becoming a man in that very life exactly as she wished to.”³⁶²

Then Śakra, the lord of devas, said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, having learned the merit that comes from rejoicing,³⁶³ I pray that you teach what merit comes from the supplication that requests bodhisattvas to turn the wheel of the Dharma³⁶⁴ in the future and bodhisattvas to practice correctly in the present.”

“Lord of devas,” replied the Bhagavat, “if a noble man or noble woman seeks the highest, most complete enlightenment and wishes to meditate on the paths of the śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas, then that individual,³⁶⁵ in the six periods of the day and night, as described before,³⁶⁶ maintaining single-pointed mindfulness, should recite this:

“ ‘Today with sincerity I bow down my head in homage to all the buddha bhagavats in the worlds in the ten directions,