太子瑞應本起經 2.7

2.7

"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: