བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་ཞུགས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་པ་ནི་ཆོས་ལ་དམིགས་པའོ། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བཟོད་པ་རབ་ཏུ་ཐོབ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་པ་ནི་དམིགས་པ་མེད་པའོ། ། གཞོན་ནུ་འདི་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བྱམས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་སྟེ། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བྱམས་པ་དེ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་གནས་པས་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་བྱམས་པས་ཁྱབ་པར་བྱེད་དོ། ། དེ་ལ་གཞོན་ནུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་གང་ཞེ་ན། གཞོན་ནུ་འདི་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་འདོད་པའི་སྔོན་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་ནི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོའོ། ། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། དཔེར་ན་གཞོན་ནུ་སྐྱེས་བུའི་སྲོག་གི་དབང་པོའི་སྔོན་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་ནི་དབུགས་འབྱུང་བ་དང་རྔུབ་པའོ། །
“ ‘This, young prince, is how immeasurable the cultivation of great love, the root of virtue for the bodhisatvas, the great beings, is. With this love, young prince, one guards oneself and becomes a source of benefit for others. As it is the highest form of abstention from malice, it is free from destructive malice and anger. As it overcomes faults, it is free from the tendency toward desire. As one’s vision becomes immaculate, one can discern all erroneous faults. [MS.55.a] As one does not burn to obtain pleasures of the body, speech, or mind, one has no tendency toward exploiting others. One is free from all fear, and one lives according to the noble path. One is tranquil when faced with abuse and insults. One remains untouched by conflict. One does not resort to sticks and weapons. One accumulates beneficial nonmaterial riches. One rejoices in the liberation of sentient beings. One is free of any form of anger. One does not engage in hypocrisy, manipulation, fraud, or extortion. One is generous with one’s possessions, with favors, and with praise. One is honored by Śakra and Brahmā. One is adorned by one’s own radiance. One is praised by the learned. One protects all those who are immature. One follows the holy path. One is unaffected by the realm of desire. One is focused on the path of liberation. One incorporates all vehicles into one’s practice. Everything that one manifests through one’s meritorious activity is unsurpassed. One is adorned with the thirty-two characteristics and with the minor marks. All inferior and imperfect abilities have been discarded. One travels along all paths that lead to bliss and nirvāṇa. One has turned away from the lower realms and the eight states of misfortune. One takes delight in the pleasures of the Dharma. One rejoices in all pleasures, in possessions, influence, and kingship. One practices generosity by being even-minded toward all sentient beings. One is free from biased opinions. One’s path of complete proficiency in morality provides protection from all bad conduct. One teaches with the power of patient acceptance, and one is free from all egotism, haughtiness, and arrogance. One applies unshakeable vigor, and correct practice leads to emancipation. One bases oneself in the liberative meditative states, the attainments of concentration. One gives rise to the cause that is wisdom, and love comes through taking hold of learning. One overcomes one’s own opinions and the opinions of others, and one eliminates māras and vices. One takes care to be amiable when performing the spiritual practices connected to getting up, standing, sitting down, and sleeping, and one eliminates all arrogant ingrained concepts. Love, anointed with fragrant scents, anointed with modesty and humility, is what overcomes all states of misfortune, all the vices, and all the lower realms. Great love is what protects all who live. One shuns one’s own happiness, and one’s concern is to provide happiness for all sentient beings.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings