ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རབ་འབྱོར་ལ་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་སོ། །བཙུན་པ་རབ་འབྱོར་རྣམ་གྲངས་གང་གིས་ན། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་པའི་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་འམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཆགས་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཡིན། དེ་སྐད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་པ་དང་། ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་རབ་འབྱོར་ཀྱིས་ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ལ་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་སྨྲས་སོ། །ཀཽ་ཤི་ཀ་འདི་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ཐེག་པ་པའི་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་དང་། རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོས་སེམས་སུ་འདུ་ཤེས་པ་དང་། སྦྱིན་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པར་འདུ་ཤེས་པ་དང་།
Śakra, mighty lord of the gods, having asked that, the venerable Subhūti replied to him, “Kauśika, when sons or daughters of good families who follow the vehicle of the bodhisattvas perceive the mind [of enlightenment], perceive the perfection of generosity, perceive the perfection of ethical discipline, perceive the perfection of tolerance, perceive the perfection of perseverance, perceive the perfection of meditative concentration, and perceive the perfection of wisdom; perceive the emptiness of internal phenomena, perceive the emptiness of external phenomena, perceive the emptiness of external and internal phenomena, perceive the emptiness of emptiness, perceive the emptiness of great extent, perceive the emptiness of ultimate reality, perceive the emptiness of conditioned phenomena, perceive the emptiness of unconditioned phenomena, perceive the emptiness of the unlimited, perceive the emptiness of that which has neither beginning nor end, perceive the emptiness of nonexclusion, perceive the emptiness of inherent nature, perceive the emptiness of all phenomena, perceive the emptiness of intrinsic defining characteristics, perceive the emptiness of that which cannot be apprehended, perceive the emptiness of nonentities, perceive the emptiness of essential nature, and perceive the emptiness of an essential nature of nonentities; perceive the applications of mindfulness, perceive the correct exertions, perceive the supports for miraculous ability, perceive the faculties, perceive the powers, perceive the branches of enlightenment, and perceive the noble eightfold path; perceive the truths of the noble ones, perceive the meditative concentrations, perceive the immeasurable attitudes, perceive the formless absorptions, perceive the liberations, perceive the serial steps of meditative absorption, perceive the emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness gateways to liberation, perceive the extrasensory powers, perceive the meditative stabilities, perceive the dhāraṇī gateways, perceive the powers of the tathāgatas, perceive the fearlessnesses, perceive the kinds of exact knowledge, perceive great loving kindness, perceive great compassion, and perceive the eighteen distinct qualities of the buddhas; and when they have a perception of the lord buddhas, and, having perceived the roots of virtue generated on account of those buddhas, gather those roots of virtue and compress them all together and dedicate them, making a dedication to unsurpassed, perfect, complete enlightenment, and perceive that too––then, Kauśika, these perceptions are the attachment of sons or daughters of good families who follow the vehicle of the bodhisattvas.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings