དེ་ནི་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་མ་འདྲེས་པ་བཅྭ་བརྒྱད་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ལ་འཁྲུལ་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། ཅ་ཅོ་མེད་པ་དང་། བསྙེལ་བ་མེད་པ་དང་། སེམས་མཉམ་པར་མ་བཞག་པ་མེད་པ་དང་། ཐ་དད་པའི་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པ་དང་། སོ་སོར་མ་བརྟགས་པའི་བཏང་སྙོམས་མེད་པ་དང་། འདུན་པ་ཉམས་པ་མེད་པ་དང་།
“If you ask what constitute the eighteen distinct qualities of the buddhas, they are as follows: (1) The tathāgatas are without clumsiness; (2) they are not noisy; (3) they are without false memories; (4) they are without uncomposed minds; (5) they are without differentiating perceptions; (6) they are without indifference that does not make distinctions; (7) they do not degenerate in their resolution; (8) they do not degenerate in their perseverance; (9) they do not degenerate in their recollection; (10) they do not degenerate in their meditative stability; (11) they do not degenerate in their wisdom; (12) they do not degenerate in their liberation, nor in their perception of liberating gnosis; (13) they engage in the perception of gnosis which is unobstructed and unimpeded with respect to the past; (14) they engage in the perception of gnosis which is unobstructed and unimpeded with respect to the future; (15) they engage in the perception of gnosis which is unobstructed and unimpeded with respect to the present; (16) all the activities of their bodies are preceded by pristine cognition and followed by gnosis; (17) all the activities of their speech are preceded by gnosis and followed by gnosis; and (18) all the activities of their minds are preceded by gnosis and followed by gnosis.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings