A Mind Never Once Confused

"Son of the Buddha! What is a bodhisattva-mahāsattva's own practice free of delusion and confusion? This bodhisattva accomplishes right mindfulness, their mind without any distraction, firm and unmoving, most supremely pure, vast and expansive, immeasurable, without any confusion at all. Through this right mindfulness, they thoroughly understand every kind of worldly language, and are able to retain the teachings of every transcendent dharma as well. Namely: they are able to retain the teachings on the dharma of form and the dharma of non-form, able to retain the teachings that establish the very nature of form, and, likewise, able to retain the teachings that establish the very nature of sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness, their mind without delusion or confusion. Amid the world, dying here and being born there, their mind is without delusion or confusion; entering the womb and leaving the womb, their mind is without delusion or confusion; giving rise to the intent for bodhi, their mind is without delusion or confusion; serving good spiritual friends, their mind is without delusion or confusion; diligently cultivating the buddha-dharma, their mind is without delusion or confusion; recognizing the works of Māra, their mind is without delusion or confusion; leaving behind every karma of Māra, their mind is without delusion or confusion; cultivating the bodhisattva's own practice through kalpas beyond telling, their mind is without delusion or confusion."

This bodhisattva, accomplishing such immeasurable right mindfulness as this, throughout immeasurable asaṃkhyeya kalpas, hears the true Dharma at the place of every buddha, bodhisattva, and good spiritual friend. Namely: the most profound Dharma, the vast and expansive Dharma, the adorning Dharma, every kind of adorning dharma, the dharma that expounds every kind of name, phrase, and syllable-body, the bodhisattva's own adorning Dharma, the unsurpassed Dharma of the Buddha's own spiritual power and light, the pure Dharma of right aspiration and decisive understanding, the dharma that clings to nothing worldly at all, the dharma that discriminates every worldly thing, the most vast and expansive Dharma, the dharma that leaves behind delusion's own veil and clearly illumines every living being, the shared and unshared dharmas of the whole world, the unsurpassed Dharma of the bodhisattva's own wisdom, and the dharma of sovereign mastery over all-knowing wisdom. Once the bodhisattva has heard such Dharma as this, through asaṃkhyeya kalpas, they never forget it and never lose it, their mind forever holding it in mind, without any interruption at all. Why is this? Because when a bodhisattva-mahāsattva cultivates every practice through immeasurable kalpas, they never once trouble or disturb even a single living being, causing them to lose their right mindfulness; they never destroy the true Dharma, never cut off their own wholesome roots, and their mind forever increases in vast and expansive wisdom.