Virtues of Budda’s Wisdom, Compassion and Karma

Understanding that the virtues of the Buddha’s mind has 2 parts:

1. virtues of wisdom
2. virtues of compassion.

(i) The virtues of wisdom:

Only your sublime wisdom
Comprehends all objects of knowledge;
For everyone other than you
There are objects yet to be known.

o Bhagavan, the entire origination
Of all types of phenomena throughout time
Is within the range of your mind,
Like an ambalan fruit in the palm of your hand.
Like the wind moving across the sky,
Your mind is unimpeded
With respect to the single and the manifold
Animate and inanimate phenomena.

2. virtues of compassion.

In the same way that living beings are bound inescapably by the afflictions, so is the Sage bound by great compassion, which thus arises continuously as he beholds the suffering of living beings.

The One Possessing the Ten Powers feels compassion
Which seeks to dispel all suffering
When he sees the afflictions of beings
Harmed by a multitude of illnesses and miseries.
The Sage’s compassion arises constantly;
It is impossible for it not to do so.
The Buddha is free of faults because he is concerned
With the needs of all living beings.

(d) Virtues of Karma (enlightened activities)

The enlightened activities of the Buddha’s body, speech, and mind,
being both spontaneous and everlasting, help all living beings. If
disciples are open to his guidance, the Sage will give them that
which is excellent, and lead them out of trouble. Thus, the
Buddha’s activities are certain to do everything that needs to be
done.

Peoples’ minds become absorbed in something
To the degree that they reflect on it.
Therefore, recollect the Master of the Sages as having a
conqueror’s Physical posture and limitless sublime wisdom.
If you constantly familiarize yourself with such recollection,
Your mind will become absorbed in it-
You will desire the sublime wisdom of a holy being
Whether you walk, sit, stand, or recline.

You will develop the spirit of enlightenment, thinking, “I, too, should obtain buddhahood, like the Buddha whom I recollect.” You will have visions of the Buddha day and night. No matter how much you suffer at death, you will not lose your recollection of the Buddha.

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