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> Nurturing the sprouts to completion, / Free from frost, insects, and locust plagues, > He ultimately reaps the harvest, / Storing it away without sorrow or fear. > The true Dharma of the bodhisattva / Is the field of the boundless six perfections; > Eliminating the mind of stinginess and greed, / He irrigates it with the water of ambrosia. > The path of skillful means / Clearly understands the methods of departure and approach, > Guiding all classes of sentient beings / To reach the place of unceasing \[peace\]. > Birth, old age, sickness, and defilements / Burn the good roots of the mind; > Skillful means protects them, / Fully understanding the methods of departure and approach. > When a person wishes to leave the household life, / The prohibitive precepts are foremost; > Without clinging to ornamental dharmas, / Practicing the skillful bodhisattva path, > He does not spare his body to the end of his life, / Never violating \[a precept\] by a hair's breadth. > The body is like grass, dirt, and dung, / Handled and cut as people please; > Patience is like Mount Meru, / Firm and indestructible. > Through the expedient path of guarding the precepts, / Praise and blame neither add nor detract; > Emerging from darkness into a place of light / Is the bodhisattva's path of skillful means. > He manifests his body among human beings, / Because of his compassion for all; > Or he manifests a subtle, minute form, / Moving in and out without hindrance. > Sitting at the site of awakening, the Buddhas / Extinguish the fetters so they arise no more; > Those who arrive at the site of awakening / Have exhausted the fetters forever without remainder. > It is also like a great caravan leader / Who leads merchants and others > Into the ocean to gather rare treasures: / Coral, amber beads, > Bright-moon pearls, and wish-fulfilling gems, / Returning peacefully to their native country. > Parents, brothers, / Relatives, slaves, and servants > Are joyful, pleased, and happy in mind, / Just as entering meditative absorption removes conceptions. > The bodhisattvas who practice skillful means / Search for the inexhaustible treasury; > Distinguishing the wondrous rare treasures, / They use them themselves to adorn their bodies. > The leader skilled in means / Takes the six perfections as his wife and children; > The mind of the four immeasurables shelters them, / And worldly defilements do not cling to his mind. > In the world there are many foolish people / Who guard their stinginess and do not give; > Accumulating hundreds of millions in wealth, / They claim, 'This is mine!' > When their lifespans are near the end, / Their eyes behold evil ghosts and spirits; > The knife-winds sever their forms, / And there is no longer breathing in or out. > The greedy consciousness follows evil deeds / And undergoes extremely bitter retribution; > Led to the place of punishment, / Remorse comes too late. > The Buddha uses skillful wisdom to deliver them, / Approaching them to preach the Dharma; > Those of sharp faculties examine their own misdeeds, / And their repentant hearts do not conceal them; > Hearing the Dharma, they gain deliverance: / Such is the bodhisattva's path of skillful means. > Like a person blind from birth, / Who does not recognize black or yellow colors; > He encounters a sagely, skilled physician, / Who treats him with the medicine of the Dharma; > He formerly heard that there are five colors— / Blue, yellow, red, white, and black— > Yet once he gains the clear consciousness of the eye, / He does not distinguish blue, yellow, or red. > The bodhisattva's path of skillful means / Makes distinctions reaching the ultimate; > Sweeping away the states of the eight difficulties, / It neither arises nor ceases." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.5.51) - [Next: 5.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.5.53) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384~en-mt.5.52) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.5.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.384.5.52) · Pramāṇa