菩薩瓔珞本業經 2.56

2.56

At that time, the uṣṇīṣa of Śākyamuni Buddha emitted all the lights of the Buddhas and all the lights of the bodhisattvas, and he again assembled the Buddhas and bodhisattvas from one hundred billion Buddha lands in each of the ten directions. When all had assembled, within that assembly he addressed the bodhisattvas Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, Dharmamati, Guṇaratna, Vajraketu, Vajragarbha, and the youth Sudhana, saying: "Do you see Bodhisattva Śraddhāpradāna in this great assembly, who is able to inquire about the three contemplations, the dharmadhātu, the naturally pure path of all Buddhas, and the bright contemplation Dharma-gate practiced by all bodhisattvas? You seven bodhisattvas, each leading a great assembly of one million, should receive and contemplate, study and practice such a Dharma-gate. Disciples of the Buddha! I now speak once more of this method of bright contemplation, namely the gradual path of the six entries. Listen attentively and reflect well; cultivate all types of wisdom, instruct the assembly with the precepts, and accept, apply, subdue [defilements], and practice it. Disciples of the Buddha! When all sentient beings first enter the ocean of the three jewels, they take faith as the foundation; dwelling in the household of the Buddha, they take the precepts as the foundation. Disciples of the Buddha! Among newly practicing bodhisattvas, whether faithful men or faithful women, those with incomplete faculties, eunuchs, prostitutes, slaves, and magically created beings can all receive the precepts, because they all have the intention. Those who have first generated the aspiration, gone forth from the household life, and wish to succeed to the bodhisattva stages should first receive the precepts of the true Dharma. The precepts are the root of the treasury of all wholesome practices and merits, the root of all practices leading directly to the path of the Buddha fruit. These precepts can eradicate all great evils, namely the seven views and six attachments; they are a bright mirror of the true Dharma. Disciples of the Buddha! I now formulate for the bodhisattvas the foundation of all precepts, namely the three gates of reception: the precepts of embracing wholesome dharmas, which are the eighty-four thousand Dharma-gates; the precepts of embracing sentient beings, which are loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, transforming all sentient beings so that they attain peace and happiness; and the precepts of restraining discipline, which are the ten pārājikas.