“Son of good family, the morality of the bodhisatva becomes like empty space when he is endowed with the four dharmas. What are those four? (caturbhir dharmaiḥ samanvāgatasya kulaputra bodhisatvasya śīlaṃ gaganasamaṃ bhavati | katame catvāraḥ)
To wit, a) the sameness of body (kāyasamatā) being like a reflection (pratibimbopama);
b) the sameness of sound (śabdasamatā) being like an echo (pratiśrutkopama);
c) the sameness of thought (cittasamatā) being like an illusion (māyopama);
d) the sameness of consciousness (buddhisamatā) being like open space (gaganopama).
Son of good family, the morality of the bodhisatva becomes like open space when he is endowed with the four dharmas (taiś caturbhir dharmaiḥ samanvāgatasya kulaputra bodhisatvasya śīlaṃ gaganasamaṃ bhavati).
rigs kyi bu chos bźi daṅ ldan na byaṅ chub sems dpa’ chen po tshul khrims nam mkha’ daṅ mtshuṅs pa yin te | bźi gaṅ źe na |
’di lta ste | gzugs brñan lta bu’i lus mñam pa ñid daṅ |
brag ca lta bu’i (2) sgra mñam pa ñid daṅ |
sgyu ma lta bu’i sems mñam pa ñid daṅ |
nam mkha’ lta bu’i blo mñam pa ñid de |
rigs kyi bu chos bźi po de dag daṅ ldan na byaṅ chub sems dpa’ tshul khrims nam mkha’ daṅ mtshuṅs pa yin no ||
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I. The Occasion