སེམས་དེ་ནི་ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཚུངས་པའི་ཕྱིར་ཡངས་པའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་བཏང་བའི་ཕྱིར་སྒྲིབ་པ་མེད་པའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་མ་བཅད་པའི་ཕྱིར་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་སོང་བའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་མཁས་པས་བསྔགས་པའི་ཕྱིར་མངོན་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱ་བའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་ས་བོན་དུ་གྱུར་པའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་བདེ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གནས་སོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱིས་སྨོན་ལམ་ལས་བྱུང་བའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་བཟོད་པས་བསྙེན་པར་དགའ་བའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱིས་ཐུལ་བར་དཀའ་བའོ། ། སེམས་དེ་ནི་བསམ་གཏན་དག་གིས་ཉེ་བར་ཞི་བའོ། །
The Lord then spoke to the venerable Śāriputra, “Śāriputra, here is why it is called a foundation of resolve. It is solid because it cannot be broken. It cannot be broken because it is firm. It is firm because it cannot be swayed. It cannot be swayed because it is not unsteady. It is not unsteady because it is well established. It is well established because it does not turn back. It does not turn back because it is concern for sentient beings. It is concern for sentient beings because it is rooted in great compassion. It is rooted in great compassion because it does not become weary. It does not become weary because it is knowledge of how to bring sentient beings to maturity. It is knowledge of how to bring sentient beings to maturity because it is not occupied with egocentric happiness. It is not occupied with egocentric happiness because it does not look for any reward. It does not look for any reward because it is not interested in material gain. It is not interested in material gain because of its support for sentient beings. It supports sentient beings because of its concern for the weak. It has concern for the weak and acts as a protector for them. It is able to protect them because it is a refuge and ultimate sanctuary. It is a refuge and ultimate sanctuary because it is unassailable. It is unassailable because it is well considered. It is well considered because it is beyond objectification. It is beyond objectification because of its virtuous resolve. Its resolve is virtuous because it is nothing in particular. It is nothing in particular because it is completely immaculate. It is completely immaculate because it is wholly purified. It is wholly purified because its inner nature is without blemish. Its inner nature is without blemish because it is externally immaculate. This, Śāriputra, is what this foundation of resolve is like: everything from solid and unbreakable to internally free of blemishes and externally immaculate.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings