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Dharmas 61-80

61. There are eight worldly conditions,

{1} greed,
{2} non-greed,
{3} happiness,
{4} suffering,
{5} fame,
{6} infamy,
{7} blame,
{8} and praise.

62. There are nine (types of) teachings, they are:

{1} Discourses,
{2} prosimetrum,
{3} explanation,
{4} verse,
{5} exalted utterance,
{6} birth-story,
{7} elaboration,
{8} wonderful thing,
{9} and instruction.

63. There are twelve ascetic virtues,

{1} (eating only) almsfood,
{2} (wearing only) three robes,
{3} not (accepting more) after starting eating,
{4} not lying down,
{5} bed in accordance (with whatever is offered),
{6} (living at) the root of a tree,
{7} (eating during) one sitting,
{8} (living in an) empty place,
{9} (living in a) wilderness,
{10} (living in a) charnel ground,
{11} (wearing only) robes made from discarded materials,
{12} and (wearing only) felt garments.

64. There are ten stages (of the Bodhisattva),

{1} the rejoicing,
{2} the unstained,
{3} the light-making,
{4} the radiant,
{5} the very difficult of success,
{6} the manifest,
{7} the far-gone,
{8} the immovable,
{9} the really intelligent,
{10} and the cloud of dharma.

65.

{11} The all-round light,
{12} the incomparable,
{13} the knowledgeable,

when put together with the (previous, this makes) the thirteen stages (of the Bodhisattva).

66. There are five eyes,

{1} the fleshly eye,
{2} the dharma eye,
{3} the wisdom eye,
{4} the divine eye,
{5} and the Buddha eye.

67. There are six defilements,

{1} passion,
{2} repulsion,
{3} conceit,
{4} ignorance,
{5} bad view,
{6} and doubt.

68. There are five views,

{1} embodiment view,
{2} holding extreme views,
{3} wrong view,
{4} grasping at view,
{5} grasping at virtue and practice.

69. There are twenty-four In fact only 23 are listed in both texts, it is hard to see what is missing, as this was not a standard list anyway. minor defilements, they are: Many of these occur in section 30 above.

{1} Anger,
{2} enmity,
{3} ill-will,
{4} contention,
{5} jealousy,
{6} selfishness,
{7} treachery,
{8} deception,
{9} intoxication,
{10} violence,
{11} shame,
{12} lack of conscience,
{13} sloth,
{14} faithlessness,
{15} indolence,
{16} heedlessness,
{17} lack of mindfulness,
{18} scatteredness,
{19} lack of knowledge,
{20} worry,
{21} torpor,
{22} thinking,
{23} and reflection.

70. There are five nutriments,

{1} nutriment of absorption,
{2} nutriment of food,
{3} nutriment from withdrawal,
{4} nutriment of contact,
{5} and nutriment of intention.

71. There are five fears,

{1} fear for (one’s) livelihood,
{2} fear of grief,
{3} fear of death,
{4} fear of a bad destination,
{5} and fear through timidity.

72. There are four absorptions, they are:

{1} The first absorption has thinking, reflection, and the happiness and joy born of seclusion,
{2} the second has internal clarity, and happiness and joy,
{3} the third is equanimous, mindful, and has full knowledge,
{4} the fourth absorption has complete purity of mindfulness and equanimity, with feeling that is neither-unpleasant-nor-pleasant.

73. The are three liberations,

{1} empty,
{2} signless,
{3} and desireless.

74. There are ten masteries of the Bodhisattvas,

{1} mastery of life,
{2} mastery of mind,
{3} mastery of discipline,
{4} mastery of dharma,
{5} mastery of spiritual power,
{6} mastery of birth,
{7} mastery of resolution,
{8} mastery of aspiration,
{9} mastery of deeds,
{10} and mastery of knowledge.

75. There are ten strengths of the Bodhisattvas, they are:

{1} The strength of resolution,
{2} the strength of observation,
{3} the strength of behaviour,
{4} the strength of patience,
{5} the strength of knowledge,
{6} the strength of abandoning,
{7} the strength of concentration,
{8} the strength of inspired speech,
{9} the strength of merit,
{10} and the strength of practice.

76. There are ten strengths of a Realised One, they are:

{1} The strength of knowing the possible and impossible,
{2} the strength of knowing deeds and results,
{3} the strength of knowing the various elements,
{4} the strength of knowing the various inclinations,
{5} the strength of knowing the faculties of beings, near and far,
{6} the strength of knowing the practice that leads to all destinations,
{7} the strength of knowing the absorptions, liberations, concentrations, attainments and purification and arising from defilements,
{8} the strength of knowing the recollection of his manifold past existences,
{9} the strength of knowing the passing away and arising (of beings),
{10} and the strength of knowing the destruction of the pollutants.

77. There are four confidences, they are:

{1} Confidence in the Awakening,
{2} confidence in the destruction of the pollutants,
{3} confidence in the path that leads to entering emancipation,
{4} {and confidence that those things declared in the dharma to be obstacles are not other than stated.} Added from the list in Mahāvyutpatti.

78. There are five selfishnesses,

{1} selfishness regarding dharma,
{2} selfishness regarding wealth,
{3} selfishness regarding dwellings,
{4} selfishness regarding wholesomeness,
{5} and selfishness regarding class.

79. There are eighteen special qualities of the Buddha, they are:

{1} The Realised One does not stumble,
{2} he does not cry out,
{3} he does not lose mindfulness,
{4} he does not have uncollectedness of mind,
{5} he does not have perceptions of variety (of feelings),
{6} he does not have equanimity due to lack of observation,
{7} he does not have a loss of desire,
{8} he does not have a loss of energy,
{9} he does not have a loss of mindfulness,
{10} he does not have a loss of concentration,
{11} he does not have a loss of wisdom,
{12} he does not have a loss of liberation,
{13} he does not have a loss of knowledge and insight into liberation, At this point the list is different from the standard one, adding this item, changing the order of the following items, and omitting knowledge and insight into the future.
{14} all his bodily deeds are preceded by knowledge, in accordance with knowledge,
{15} all his verbal deeds are preceded by knowledge, in accordance with knowledge,
{16} all his mental deeds are preceded by knowledge, in accordance with knowledge,
{17} he has independent, unobstructed knowledge and insight into the past time,
{18} he has independent, unobstructed knowledge and insight into the present time.

80. There are four destroyers, they are:

{1} The components destroyer,
{2} the defilements destroyer,
{3} the destroyer-god Māra,
{4} and death as destroyer.