[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [太子瑞應本起經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185) › 2.7 # 太子瑞應本起經 2.7 太子瑞應本起經 2.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2.7) 「佛得定意，一切知見，坐自念言：『是實微妙，難知難明，甚難得也。高而無上，廣不可極；淵而無下，深不可測；大包天地，細入無間。昔定光佛時，別我為佛，名釋迦文。今果得之。從無數劫，勤苦所求，適今得耳。自念宿命，諸所施為，慈孝仁義，禮敬誠信，中正守善，虛心學聖，柔弱淨意，行六度無極，布施持戒，忍辱精進，一心智慧。習四等心，慈悲喜護；養育眾生，如視赤子；承事諸佛，積德無量；累劫勤苦，不望其功，今悉自得。』喜自說曰： > "Having attained the concentrated mind, the Buddha knew and saw all things. Sitting, he thought to himself: 'This reality is subtle and marvelous, difficult to know and difficult to understand, exceedingly difficult to attain. High, it has nothing above it; vast, it cannot be bounded; abyssal, it has no bottom; deep, it cannot be fathomed; broad, it encompasses heaven and earth; fine, it enters where there is no space between. Formerly, in the time of Dīpaṃkara Buddha, he distinguished me to become a Buddha named Śākyamuni. Now it has indeed been attained. Sought with diligence and hardship through countless kalpas, it has only just now been attained. Recalling my previous lives, all that I practiced—kindness, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, respect, sincerity, trustworthiness, rectitude, maintaining goodness, humbling the mind to learn from the sages, gentleness, purifying the mind, practicing the six perfections without limit: giving, keeping the precepts, patience, vigor, singleness of mind, and wisdom; cultivating the four immeasurables: loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity; nurturing living beings as if looking upon infants; serving the Buddhas and accumulating immeasurable virtue; through repeated kalpas of diligent hardship, seeking no reward for its merit—now all this has naturally been attained.' Joyfully, he spoke for himself, saying: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2.6) - [Next: 2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2.8) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185~en-mt.2.7) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [普曜經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara*zh-dharmaraksa.6.78) — Classical Chinese - [修行本起經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.nidana.caryanidanasutra*zh-zhudali.2.66) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.185.2.7) · Pramāṇa