Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s5.3

c8.s5.3

While in the third bhūmi the bodhisattva realises that the constituted things are impermanent, full of sufferings, have momentary origin and decay, are without beginning and end, and are subject to the causal law. He understands the misery and despair as issuing from attachment to saṃskāras, and so he applies his mind to the attainment of Tathāgatajñāna,¹ which he finds as unthinkable, immeasurable and above all misery and despair, and where there is neither fear nor trouble, and by attaining which one can save beings. He then develops ten more cittāśayas.