勸發菩提心集 1.8

1.8

As for the characteristic marks of dhyāna: bodhisattvas by nature are able to investigate and contemplate the meaning of the Dharma with little distraction. Seeing or hearing of mountain crags or forest borders where people do not mingle, departing from evil beings and conforming to quietude, they immediately take pleasure in it. Their nature has few afflictions; going to solitary places, they reflect on their own welfare. Their minds are not extremely entanglingly disturbed by evil thoughts; toward enemies they still show loving-kindness, much more so toward relatives or neutral persons. Seeing suffering, they generate compassion, pulling them out and rescuing them according to their ability. They are intelligent by nature; regarding the Dharma, they can receive, hold, and contemplate it; having remembered long-past events, they also cause others to remember them. Such classes of things are called the characteristic marks of the gotra of dhyāna.