Shikshasamuccaya 112
English (machine translation) 112
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"Thus, dedicating himself to all sentient beings, providing all sentient beings with roots of wholesome virtue by being serviceable with all roots of wholesome virtue; offering himself like a lamp to all sentient beings; resolving himself to be like happiness to all sentient beings; upholding himself like a womb of Dharma to the entire world; reaching out to all sentient beings like light; seeing himself as like the foundation of the world; reaching out to the entire world as the causal condition for roots of wholesome virtue; assigning himself like a friend to all sentient beings; displaying himself like the path to unexcelled happiness to all sentient beings; purifying himself like the cushion of unexcelled happiness to all sentient beings; making himself equal to the sun for the entire world; giving himself, endowed with such qualities, to all sentient beings; seeing himself in the entire world as compliant to be used as desired, [thinking:] 'We will become supreme shrines...'; seeing himself as the support of the entire world; bringing about an even-minded attitude toward the entire world; seeing himself as the ford of all requisites; viewing himself as the giver of happiness to the entire world; resolving upon himself as the benefactor of the entire world; making himself equal to the gnosis of the entire world; manifesting himself engaged in the bodhisattva's conduct; committing himself to acting in accordance with what he says; viewing himself clad in the armor of omniscience; preserving the thought that was invited previously; establishing himself in practice and keeping in mind the bodhisattva's attitude of relinquishment; seeing himself as like a park to all sentient beings; displaying himself like delight in the Dharma in all worlds; resolving himself to be the giver of gladness to all sentient beings; offering himself to the entire world as the generator of infinite delight; upholding himself in the entire world as a gateway to all white dharmas; aspiring for himself to be the giver of buddha-awakening to all sentient beings; assigning himself like a father to all progeny; establishing himself in the realm of all sentient beings as the locus of non-deficiency in all requisites."
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- Śikṣāsamuccaya — Śāntideva, Sanskrit