གང་མིག་གིས་གཟུགས་མཐོང་ནས་མཚན་མར་མི་འཛིན། མངོན་རྟགས་སུ་མི་འཛིན། གཟུགས་ལ་ཆགས་པ་དང་། ཉེས་དམིགས་དང་། འབྱུང་བ་ཡང་ཡང་དག་པ་ཇི་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན་དུ་རབ་ཏུ་ཤེས་སོ། ། དེ་བཞིན་དུ་རྣ་བས་སྒྲ་དང་། སྣས་དྲི་དང་། ལྕེས་རོ་དང་། ལུས་ཀྱིས་རེག་བྱ་དང་། ཡིད་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་ཤེས་ནས་མཚན་མར་མི་འཛིན། མངོན་རྟགས་སུ་མི་འཛིན།
“Soon after he is born he stops running after the pleasures of the senses, and in his adolescence he develops faith in the teachings of the lords, the buddhas, leaves his home behind, and becomes a renunciant. Having developed faith and become a renunciant, he seeks out a truly spiritual friend, stays with this spiritual friend, keeps his attention directed toward his spiritual friend, and develops virtuous intention. He then listens to the good teachings with this virtuous intention and takes their practices to heart. He is not someone who takes an intellectual delight in the teachings. The search for great knowledge does not satisfy him. He elucidates the teachings to many others in exactly the same manner as he has heard them. With no desire for material reward, he teaches the Dharma to others, not seeking honor or praise. He avoids his own words and teaches the Dharma to others just as he has heard it, in a way that is appropriate to the circumstances. He develops great love for those who listen to the Dharma. He engages with all sentient beings with great compassion. Since he has great learning, he is not concerned with his body or his life. He is content because he has few desires. He is a hermit and his nature is gentle. He is easily supported, does not require much, and prefers the wilderness. He understands the meaning of the teachings just as he has heard them, and he does not rely on the words but on the meaning. He is a support for the world with its gods, humans, and asuras. He is engaged not just for his own benefit but for the benefit of all beings, seeking the unsurpassed Mahāyāna, the knowledge of the buddhas, the unparalleled knowledge, the knowledge that is unlike anything in the threefold world.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings