大方便佛報恩經 2.17

2.17

「是故菩薩常當勤修技藝，多諸工能：音樂倡伎，曆數算計，呪術仙藥，服乘象馬，兜矛矟箭，出陣入陣，有大武功。我有如是眾妙技藝，一切眾人，若王大臣，不敢違逆我意。兼我復有衣財飲食、珠環釵釧、金銀琉璃、珊瑚虎珀、硨𤦲馬瑙、真珠玫瑰、摩尼寶珠、象馬輦輿、僮僕作使、宮人美女、流泉浴池、七寶臺觀，如是種種微妙無量百千。菩薩雖有如是威武隨意，技藝百千，寶藏象馬，車乘無量，美女勝妙，臺觀、流泉、浴池，一切五欲樂具，心不貪著，而常少欲知足，好樂閑靜；山林樹下安禪靜默；雖處大眾言談語論，而心常入對治門中；雖與眾生和光塵俗，出內財產，生業息利，終不為惡，利益眾生。若有貧窮及諸苦惱，來從菩薩求索所須，菩薩隨意稱心給與。

"Therefore, a bodhisattva should constantly cultivate arts and skills and possess many crafts and capabilities: music and theatrical performances; calendrical calculations and arithmetic; incantations and elixirs of the immortals; riding elephants and horses; handling helmets, lances, spears, and arrows; marching into and out of battle arrays, possessing great martial prowess. Having such wondrous arts and skills, no one among all people—whether kings or great ministers—dares to oppose my will. In addition, I possess clothing, wealth, food and drink, pearls, rings, hairpins, and bracelets, gold, silver, lapis lazuli, coral, amber, tridacna, agate, genuine pearls, rubies, maṇi jewels, elephants, horses, carriages and palanquins, servants and attendants, palace maidens and beautiful women, flowing springs and bathing ponds, and seven-jewelled terraces and viewing towers—hundreds of thousands of such wondrous varieties beyond measure. Although a bodhisattva possesses such martial might at will, hundreds of thousands of arts and skills, jewel treasuries, elephants and horses, countless carriages, exceedingly exquisite women, viewing towers, flowing springs, bathing ponds, and all the accoutrements of pleasure of the five desires, their mind is not attached in greed; rather, they always have few desires and are content, delighting in solitude and peace; they dwell in quiet contemplation under forest trees; though they abide among the multitudes engaging in conversation and discussion, their mind always enters into the portals of antidotes; though they blend their light with the dust of worldly life alongside sentient beings, spending and receiving wealth and engaging in business and earning interest, they never commit evil, and they benefit sentient beings. If there are the poor and those suffering from various afflictions who come to the bodhisattva seeking what they need, the bodhisattva bestows it upon them at will, fulfilling their desires.