བསྡུ་བའི་དངོས་པོ་རྗེས་སུ་མི་གཏོང་བས་སེམས་ཅན་ཡོངས་སུ་སྨིན་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡིན། རང་གི་ནོར་རབ་ཏུ་མི་འཇིག་པས་ཆོས་རྗེས་སུ་སྲུང་བའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡིན་ནོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་མཁས་པ་ནི་འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་དང་ལྡན་པས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་དོ། ། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་འདི་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་སྟེ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེ་ལ་བརྩོན་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱད་པ་སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམས་བདུད་དང་། བདུད་ཀྱི་རིས་ཀྱི་ལྷའི་བུས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་ཡིན། ཕས་ཀྱི་རྒོལ་བ་གཞན་དག་གིས་ཀྱང་མི་ཐུབ་པ་ཡིན་ནོ། །
“He maintains his morality unblemished by not striving after any other type of knowledge. He keeps his morality unbroken by avoiding anything that is incompatible with the Dharma. He keeps his morality unadulterated by not associating with wicked people who indulge in vices. He keeps his morality spotless by only promoting wholesome ways of acting. He keeps his morality free by following his own inclinations. He keeps his morality respectful and is not censured by those who are knowledgeable. He preserves his morality by remaining mindful and aware. He keeps his morality irreproachable by not letting any mistakes occur. He safeguards his morality by guarding the doors of the senses. He guards his reputation for pure morality [MS.80.b] because it is in accord with the intent of all the buddhas. He maintains the morality of requiring little by knowing what the proper measures are. He maintains the morality of contentment and easily avoids greed. He maintains the morality of persistence by isolating his body and his mind. He maintains the morality of the hermit by shunning society. He maintains the morality of the tradition of the noble ones by not looking another directly in the face. He maintains the morality of upholding the qualities of a purified one by generating the roots of virtue of a life of self-reliance. He maintains the morality of integrity by not violating his promises to gods and men. He maintains the morality of love through the attitude of not causing harm to any sentient being. He maintains the morality of compassion by being moved by all forms of suffering. He maintains the morality of empathetic joy by delighting in the Dharma and not becoming discouraged. He maintains the morality of equanimity by ridding himself of attachment and aversion. He maintains the morality of examining his own mistakes by clearly discerning his own mind. He maintains the morality of not seeing faults in others’ mistakes and is considerate of the minds of others. He maintains the morality of bringing sentient beings to maturity through the perfection of generosity. He maintains the morality of guarding himself through the perfection of morality. He maintains the morality of not becoming angry through the perfection of patient acceptance. He maintains the morality of not turning away from the wholesome Dharma through the perfection of vigor. He maintains the morality of perfecting the factors of meditation through the perfection of meditation. He maintains the morality of excellent learning through the perfection of wisdom. He maintains the morality of relying on a spiritual friend and develops the necessary factors of awakening. He maintains the morality of avoiding bad influences by avoiding wicked paths. He maintains the morality of having no concern for his body by applying the idea of impermanence. He maintains the morality of having no concern for his life by not putting his trust in it. He maintains the morality of having no regrets by keeping his intentions perfectly pure. He maintains the morality of being uncontrived by keeping his engagement perfectly pure. He maintains the morality of avoiding burning desire by keeping his sincerity perfectly pure. He maintains the morality of modesty by remaining free from desire. He maintains the morality of unpretentiousness by keeping a low profile. He maintains the morality of not being foolish because of his noble nature. He maintains the morality of discipline through a lack of aggression. He maintains the morality of tranquility by remaining calm. He maintains the morality of being receptive by not being opposed to the statements of the buddhas. He maintains the morality of bringing sentient beings to maturity by not abandoning the methods for bringing people together. He maintains the morality of guarding the Dharma by not letting his resources diminish. The learned bodhisatva’s skandha of morality is like this, Śāriputra, and with it he trains in the way of the bodhisatva.
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings