ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་དེ་ལྟར་ན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལ་སྤྱོད་དོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་གཞན་ཡང་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་ལ་སྤྱོད་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡེ་སྣོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཉན། བླངས། བཟུང་། བཀླགས། ཀུན་ཆུབ་པར་བྱས། གཞན་ལ་ཡང་བཤད་ཅིང་རྒྱ་ཆེར་ཡང་དག་པར་རབ་ཏུ་བསྟན་ནས་ནན་ཏན་སྙིང་པོ་བྱེད་པ་ཡིན་ནོ། ། ཆོས་རྣམས་ལ་ནན་ཏན་བྱེད་པ་གང་ཞེ་ན། གང་ཇི་ལྟར་བསྟན་པ་བཞིན་དུ་གནས་པ་སྟེ། དེ་ནི་ཆོས་ལ་ནན་ཏན་བྱེད་པའོ། །
“Why is this? Someone who is inclined toward the cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva will study, and so he will develop understanding. He will learn, and so his insight progresses. Someone who is dedicated to the cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who engages with the cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who relies upon spiritual friends will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who is not conceited will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who holds on to what is beneficial will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who is receptive will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who shows reverence for great learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who is attentive will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who has veneration for great learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who is mentally engaged with great learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who sees great learning as a jewel will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who sees great learning as medicine will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who sees that absorbing great learning will lead to the pacification of desire, anger, and confusion will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who absorbs a great deal of learning with the intention of retaining it will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who attempts to arrive at an understanding of phenomena will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone whose mind yearns for great learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who absorbs great learning and whose intellect is agile will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. [MS.116.a] Someone who is not satisfied with his learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about generosity and becomes motivated to give things up will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about morality and then guards his morality will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about patient acceptance and who is patient will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about vigor will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about meditation and does not let his mind wander will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about wisdom and directs his mind toward the elimination of the defilements will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who rejoices in great learning will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who becomes content in his body when he listens to the Dharma will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who becomes joyful in his mind when he listens to the Dharma will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who becomes motivated after learning about the Mahāyāna will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who learns about the methods for bringing people together and sets his mind on these methods will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about establishing mindfulness and remains mindful of his body, mindful of his feelings, mindful of his mind, and mindful of mental phenomena will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks about genuine renunciation and is ashamed and embarrassed by his unwholesome tendencies will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who maintains an intellect that does not shun wholesome states whenever they arise will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on the foundations of magical abilities and develops agility of body, agility of mind, and agility of inclination will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on meditation and steers his mind toward reflection will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on the immeasurables and has love for all sentient beings, compassion for the wretched, empathetic joy for all phenomena, and equanimity toward misdeeds will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on the faculties and directs his mind toward the faculty of faith, the faculty of vigor, the faculty of mindfulness, the faculty of concentration, and the faculty of wisdom will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on the factors of awakening [MS.116.b] and applies his mind to understanding all phenomena will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who listens to talks on the path and applies his mind to attaining nirvāṇa will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. Someone who hears of the Tathāgata’s powers, confidence, great love, great compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity, analytical abilities, and eighteen unique, immeasurable buddha qualities and applies his mind to attaining unsurpassed perfect awakening will learn. As he learns he will develop understanding, and as he develops understanding his insight progresses. These, Śāriputra, are what are known as the forty-one aspects of engagement with learning, and this, Śāriputra, is how the bodhisatva practices the perfection of wisdom.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings