[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) › [勸發菩提心集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862) › 1.20 # 勸發菩提心集 1.20 勸發菩提心集 1.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1.20) 第一具菩薩種姓，二者具四種相。當知菩薩善友具足，謂諸菩薩所遇善友，性不愚鈍，聰明黠慧，不墮惡見。是名第一善友具足。所遇善友，終不教人行於放逸，亦不授與諸放逸具。是名第二善友具足。所遇善友，終不教人行於惡行，亦不授與諸惡行具。是名第三善友具足。所遇善友，終不勸捨增上信，欲受學精進方便功德，而復勸修下劣信欲諸劣功德，謂不勸捨大乘修於二乘，不勸捨勝福慧修劣福慧。是名第四善友具足。由四因緣，當知菩薩於諸眾生多起悲心，謂諸菩薩雖有十方無量無邊無苦世界，而生有苦諸世界中，於中恒有眾苦可得。或時見他隨遭一苦，或時見自一苦觸對，或見自他隨遭一苦觸對逼切，或見二種俱遭多時種種猛利無間大苦觸對逼切。然此菩薩依自種姓自仁賢，依四境處雖不串習，而能發起下中上悲，無有間斷。由四因緣，於諸眾生先起悲心，於極長時種種猛利無間無缺生死大苦難行苦行尚無怯畏，何況小苦。謂諸菩薩性自勇健堪忍有力，是第一因。性自聰敏能正思惟，具思擇力，是第二因。能於無上正等菩提，成就上品清淨信解，是第三因。於諸眾生，成就上品深心悲愍，是第四因（如其次第釋上四因）。 > The first is being endowed with the bodhisattva gotra; the second is being endowed with four characteristic marks. One should know that for a bodhisattva to be endowed with good friends means that the good friends whom the bodhisattva meets are not stupid or dull by nature, but are clever and wise, and do not fall into bad views. This is called the first endowment with good friends. The good friends whom one meets never teach people to practice negligence, nor do they confer upon them the implements of negligence. This is called the second endowment with good friends. The good friends whom one meets never teach people to practice evil conduct, nor do they confer upon them the implements of evil conduct. This is called the third endowment with good friends. The good friends whom one meets never encourage abandoning superior faith, the desire to receive and train in vīrya, expedients, and virtues, nor do they encourage the cultivation of inferior faith and desire, or various inferior virtues; that is, they do not encourage abandoning the Mahāyāna to cultivate the two vehicles, nor do they encourage abandoning superior merit and wisdom to cultivate inferior merit and wisdom. This is called the fourth endowment with good friends. Because of four causes and conditions, one should know that a bodhisattva mostly arouses a compassionate mind toward sentient beings: although there are immeasurable, boundless worlds free of suffering in the ten directions, the bodhisattvas are born among worlds possessing suffering, wherein various sufferings are constantly found. At times they see another suffering a single pain, or at times they see themselves confronted with a single pain, or they see both self and other suffering a single pain that confronts and oppresses them, or they see both simultaneously suffering for a long time various intense, uninterrupted, and immense pains that confront and oppress them. Yet this bodhisattva, relying on their own gotra and their own benevolence and worthiness, and relying on these four objective conditions, although not habituated \[to them\], can arouse lower, middling, and superior compassion without interruption. Due to four causes and conditions, they first arouse a compassionate mind toward sentient beings, and toward the immense suffering and difficult austerities of saṃsāra, which are of various kinds, intense, uninterrupted, and incessant over an extremely long time, they still have no fear or dread, much less toward minor suffering. That is, bodhisattvas by nature are brave, robust, patient, and powerful: this is the first cause. They are by nature clever and sharp, capable of correct reflection, and endowed with the power of discernment: this is the second cause. Toward anuttarā samyaksambodhi, they achieve superior, pure faith and understanding: this is the third cause. Toward sentient beings, they achieve superior, deep-minded compassion: this is the fourth cause. (These explain the above four causes in their proper order.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1.19) - [Next: 1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1.21) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862~en-mt.1.20) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [瑜伽論記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1828.8.421) — Classical Chinese - [瑜伽師地論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.yogacara.yogacarabhumi*zh-xuanzang.35.83) — Classical Chinese - [瑜伽師地論略纂](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1829.10.27) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.1.20) · Pramāṇa