ཐེ་ཚོམ་མེད་པ། ནེམ་ནུར་མེད་པར་ཆོས་དེ་རྣམས་སྡུད་པར་བྱེད་པ་དེ་ནི་དད་པའི་དབང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། ། དེ་ལ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་གང་ཞེ་ན། ཆོས་གང་ལ་དད་པ་དེ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོས་སྐྱེད་པར་བྱེད་པ་སྟེ། དེ་ནི་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །
“What is the faculty of faith? It is the faith that trusts in four Dharma teachings. What are these four Dharma teachings? They are to trust completely in the right view of worldly matters and the workings of cyclic existence; to rely on the ripening of the fruits of actions and not engage in any evil actions, even to save one’s life; to have faith in the way of the bodhisatva and not long for any other approach when one is engaging with the practice; to have faith in the explicit meaning of the ultimate truth, the profundity of dependent origination, the fact that all phenomena are characterized by emptiness and freedom from attributes but still not harbor any tendency to cling to views; and to have faith in all the qualities of the Buddha, his powers and confidences, and to not question them or doubt them when one hears about them but rather work to develop these qualities. This is what is known as [MS.131.a] the faculty of faith.
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