རྨ་ཕྱུང་བ་ལ་རྨ་མི་འབྱིན་པས་དེའི་ཕྱིར་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། བདག་དང་ཕ་རོལ་གཉི་ག་ལས་བཟོད་པས་དེའི་ཕྱིར་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། ཕན་པར་བྱེད་པ་དང་། ཕན་པར་མི་བྱེད་པ་ལ་མཉམ་པར་སྦྱོར་བས་དེའི་ཕྱིར་བཏང་སྙོམས་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་རྩོད་པ་མེད་པ་ལྷུར་བྱེད་པའོ། ། བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་རང་གི་སེམས་ངེས་པར་རྟོག་པའོ། ། བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་བདག་ལ་སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པའོ། ། བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་གཞན་ལ་གནོད་པ་མེད་པའོ། ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་བཏང་སྙོམས་ནི་མཉམ་པར་གཞག་པའི་དངོས་པོ་སྟེ། སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་རྣམས་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་བཏང་སྙོམས་པ་གནང་བར་མི་མཛད་དོ། །
“ ‘What is equanimity in the face of afflictive emotions? It is to remain unexcited when one is praised and not become depressed when one is criticized. It is to not become complacent concerning one’s possessions and not become upset when one is unable to acquire new things. It is to be equanimous with respect to those who are moral and those who are immoral. It is to not be overly fond of fame and not be discouraged when one is disgraced. It is to not let oneself be hurt by blame [MS.57.b] and to be realistic when receiving approval. It is the ability to relate to pain and the ability to keep in mind that happiness is temporary. It is to abandon attachment and to shun anger. It is to think of friends and foes as equal. It is to not consider good and bad actions as different. It is to not discriminate between dear ones and enemies. It is to not give different recognition to those who are articulate and those who are not. It is to not give different recognition to those who are attentive and those who are not. It is to not be attached to pleasant speech and not become angry at unpleasant speech. It is to endure pleasure and pain equally. It is to have the same care for other sentient beings as for oneself. It is to have no concern for one’s body or one’s life. It is to have the same respect for beings who are lower, higher, or in between. It is to consider those with status and those without status as equal by nature. It is to maintain one’s own true purity when faced with truth and falsehood. In this way, young prince, the bodhisatva remains equanimous when faced with challenges.
Jewels, Water, Bodhisattvas