The following concentrates on the development of outlook and mentality of enlightening being. It particularly focuses on the interconnectedness of all beings and the training of this awareness. It details an elaborate scheme of thought-cultivation in which consciousness of daily activities is directed to specific wishes for universal well-being and liberation.

Manjushri said to Chief in Knowledge, "Child of Buddha, if enlightening beings use their minds properly, they can attain all supreme qualities, can have a mind unhindered in regard to all enlightening teachings, can remain on the Path of the Buddhas of past, present, and future, never leaving it even while living in the midst of sentient beings, can comprehend the characteristics of all things, cut off all evil and fulfill all good. They will be physically most excellent, Universally Good, all of their practical vows they will be able to fulfill, and will be free in all ways, and will be guides for all sentient beings. How can they use their minds so as to attain all supreme sublime qualities?

Enlightening beings at home should wish that all beings realize the nature of "home" is empty and escape its pressures.

While serving their parents, they should wish that all beings serve the Buddha, protecting and nourishing everyone.

While with their spouses and children, they should wish that all beings be impartial towards everyone and forever give up attachment.

When attaining desires, they should wish that all beings pull out the arrow of lust and realize ultimate peace.

On festive occasions, they should wish that all beings enjoy themselves with truth and realize amusement’s not real.

If in palace rooms, they should wish that all beings enter the sanctified state, forever rid of defiled craving.

When putting on adornments, they should wish that all beings give up phony decoration and reach the abode of truth.

When climbing up in balconies, they should wish that all beings ascend the tower of truth and see through everything.

When they give something, they should wish that all beings be able to relinquish all with hearts free of clinging.

When in gatherings or crowds, they should wish that all beings let go of compounded things and attain to total knowledge.

If in danger and difficulty, they should wish that all beings be free, unhindered wherever they go.

When they give up home life, they should wish that all beings have no hindrance in leaving home and that their minds be liberated.

Entering a monastery, they should wish that all beings expound various principles of noncontention.

Going to tutors and teachers, they should wish that all beings skillfully serve their teachers and practice virtuous ways.

Seeking initiation, they should wish that all beings reach the nonregressing state, their minds without impediment.

Shedding lay clothing, they should wish that all beings cultivate roots of goodness and abandon the yoke of transgressions.

When shaving off their hair, they should wish that all beings forever divorce all afflictions and pass on to ultimate tranquility.

Putting on religious garb, they should wish that all beings be undefiled in mind and fulfill the Way of the Great Sage.

When they formally leave home, they should wish that all beings leave home with the Buddha and rescue one and all.

Taking refuge in the Buddha, they should wish that all beings continue the lineage of Buddhas, conceiving the unexcelled aspiration.

Taking refuge in the Teaching, they should wish that all beings enter deeply into the scriptures and their wisdom be deep as the sea.

Taking refuge in the Community, they should wish that all beings order the masses, all becoming free from obstruction.

When receiving the learner’ precepts, they should wish that all beings learn self-control well and not do any wrong.

Receiving a mentor’s instruction, they should wish that all beings bear themselves with dignity and that their actions be truthful.

Receiving a teacher’s guidance, they should wish that all beings enter the knowledge of birthlessness and reach the state of independence.

Receiving the full set of precepts, they should wish that all beings fulfill all means of liberation and master the supreme teaching.

When entering a hall, they should wish that all beings ascend to the unexcelled sanctuary and rest there secure, unshakable.

When setting out a seat, they should wish that all beings cause good principles to bloom and see their true character.

Sitting up straight, they should wish that all beings sit on the seat of enlightenment, their minds without attachment.

Sitting cross-legged, they should wish that all beings have firm and strong roots of goodness and attain the state of immovability.

Cultivating concentration, they should wish that all beings conquer their minds by concentration, ultimately with no remainder.

When practicing contemplation, they should wish that all beings see truth as it is and be forever free of opposition and contention.

When uncrossing the legs, they should wish that all beings observe that all acts and all things return to dispersal and extinction.

When lowering the feet and resting, they should wish that all beings attain liberation of mind, resting at peace, unstirred.

When raising the legs, they should wish that all beings leave the sea of birth and death and fulfill all good qualities.

When putting on lower garments, they should wish that all beings wear the foundation of goodness and have a sense of shame and conscience.

When putting on a belt, they should wish that all beings bundle roots of goodness and not let them be lost.

When putting on an outer garment, they should wish that all beings attain supreme bases of goodness and reach the Other Shore of the teaching.

Putting on monastic robes, they should wish that all beings enter the foremost rank and attain imperturbabilty..

Taking a toothstick in hand, they should wish that all beings attain the wonderful teaching and be ultimately pure.

When chewing on the toothstick, they should wish that all beings be harmonious and pure in mind, biting through all afflictions.

When going to the toilet, they should wish that all beings reject greed, hatred, and folly, and clean away sinful things.

When going to wash thereafter, they should wish that all beings speedily go to the transmundane.

When washing off the body’s filth, they should wish that all beings be pure and harmonious and ultimately without defilement.

When washing the hands with water, they should wish that all beings have pure clean hands to receive and hold Buddha’s teaching.

When washing the face with water, they should wish that all beings attain the pure teaching and be forever free from defilement.

Picking up a staff, they should wish that all beings establish great works of charity and point out the road of truth.

Taking up a bowl, they should wish that all beings perfect the vessel of truth and receive human and divine support.

Sitting out on a road, they should wish that all beings go where the Buddha goes. Into the realm of non-reliance.

When on the road, they should wish that all beings tread the pure realm of reality, their minds without obscurations.

Seeing a road uphill, they should wish that all beings forever leave the world, their minds free from weakness.

Seeing a road downhill, they should wish that all beings be humble in mind and develop enlightened bases of virtue.

Seeing a winding road, they should wish that all beings abandon false paths and forever purge wrong views.

Seeing a straight road, they should wish that all beings be straight and true in mind, without flattery or deceit.

Seeing a dusty road, they should wish that all beings get rid of dust and dirt and attain the state of purity.

Seeing a dust-free road, they should wish that all beings always practice great compassion, their hearts refreshing and nourishing.

Seeing a dangerous road, they should wish that all beings abide in the realm of truth and avoid the troubles of wrongdoing.

Seeing a group of people, they should wish that all beings expound the most profound teaching, that all be harmoniously united.

If they see a big tree, they should wish that all beings divorce egotistic contentiousness and be free of anger and resentment.

If they see a grove, they should wish that all beings be worthy of the respect of celestials and humans.

If they see high mountains, they should wish that all beings’ roots of goodness stand out, their peak beyond anyone’s reach.

If they see thorny trees, they should wish that all beings may quickly cut away the thorns of the three poisons.

Seeing trees with luxuriant foliage, they should wish that all beings make a canopy of light with stability and liberation.

If they see flowers blooming, they should wish that all beings’ mystic spiritual powers be like blossoming flowers.

If they see blossoms on trees, they should wish that all beings’ features be like flowers with all marks of distinction.

If they see fruits, they should wish that all beings attain the supreme teaching and realize the way of enlightenment.

If they see a big river, they should wish that all beings gain entry into the stream of truth and enter the ocean of Buddha-knowledge.

If they see a reservoir, they should wish that all beings quickly awaken to the truth of the oneness of the Buddhas.

If they see a pond, they should wish that all beings be fully accomplished in speech and be skillful in preaching.

If they see a well, they should wish that all beings have full powers of elucidation to explain all things.

If they see a spring, they should wish that all beings’ skill in means increases and their good roots be inexhaustible.

If they see a bridge, they should wish that all beings carry all across to freedom like a bridge.

If they see flowing water, they should wish that all beings develop wholesome will and wash away the stains of delusion.

Seeing a garden cultivated, they should wish that all beings in the garden of sense desires clear away the weeds of craving.

Seeing a forest of "sorrowless" trees, they should wish that all beings forever divorce greed and lust and not produce anxiety and fear.

If they see a park, they should wish that all beings diligently cultivate the practices leading to Buddhas’ enlightenment.

Seeing people wearing ornaments, they should wish that all beings be adorned with a Buddha’s thirty-two marks of distinction.

Seeing the unadorned, they should wish that all beings give up decorations and practice austerity.

Seeing people attached to pleasure, they should wish that all beings delight themselves with truth, not abandoning love for it.

Seeing the unattached, they should wish that all beings have no care in their minds for fabricated things.

Seeing happy people, they should wish that all beings always be peaceful and happy, gladly supporting the Buddhas.

Seeing people suffer, they should wish that all beings attain fundamental knowledge and eliminate all misery.

Seeing people with no maladies, they should wish that all beings enter true wisdom and never have sickness or afflictions.

Seeing people sick, they should wish that all beings know the body is empty and null, and divorce opposition and conflict.

Seeing handsome people, they should wish that all beings always have pure faith in the enlightened and enlightening ones.

Seeing ugly people, they should wish that all beings not become attached to anything not good.

Seeing grateful people, they should wish that all beings be able to know the blessings of the Buddhas and enlightening beings.

Seeing ungrateful people, they should wish that all beings not increase the punishment of those who are bad.

If they see mendicants, they should wish that all beings be harmonious and tranquil, ultimately conquering themselves.

Seeing brahmins, they should wish that all beings always maintain pure conduct, getting rid of all evil.

Seeing ascetics, they should wish that all beings by austere practices reach the ultimate state.

Seeing self-disciplined people, they should wish that all beings strongly maintain their will in practice and not give up the Buddhas’ path.

Seeing people wearing armor, they should wish that all beings always wear the armor of virtue heading for the teacherless state.

Seeing the unarmed, they should wish that all beings be forever rid of all doings that are not good.

Seeing people debate, they should wish that all beings be able to refute all erroneous doctrines.

Seeing people of proper livelihood, they should wish that all beings succeed in pure livelihood without improper behavior.

If they see a king, they should wish that all beings become kings of truth, always expounding the right teaching.

If they see a prince, they should wish that all beings be reborn from the truth and be children of Buddha.

If they see an elder, they should wish that all beings be able to clearly cut off and not practice evil ways.

If they see a great minister, they should wish that all beings always maintain right mindfulness and practice all virtues.

If they see a castle, they should wish that all beings gain strong and form bodies and indefatigable minds.

If they see a capital, they should wish that all beings collect all virtuous qualities and always be joyful and blissful.

Seeing someone in a forest, they should wish that all beings be worthy of praise and honor of celestials and humans.

Entering a village to beg, they should wish that all beings enter the profound realm of truth, their minds with impediment.

Coming to someone’s door, they should wish that all beings enter into all doors of Buddha’s teaching.

Having entered a house, they should wish that all beings might enter the vehicle of Buddhahood which is equal in all times.

Seeing someone who doesn’t give, they should wish that all beings never ever give up supremely virtuous ways.

Seeing those who give, they should wish that all beings forever abandon the three evil paths and their miseries.

If they see an empty bowl, they should wish that all beings be pure of heart and empty of afflictions.

If they see a full bowl, they should wish that all beings completely fulfill all virtuous ways.

If they receive respect, they should wish that all beings respectfully practice all the Buddha’s teachings.

If they get no respect, they should wish that all beings not act in any ways that are not good.

Seeing people with conscience ,they should wish that all beings act with discretion and cover their organs.

Seeing the shameless, they should wish that all beings give up shamelessness and abide in the way of kindness.

If they get fine food, they should wish that all beings should fulfill their aspirations and be free from envy and longing.

If they get poor food, they should wish that all beings should not fail to obtain the taste of all meditations.

Getting soft food, they should wish that all beings be imbued with compassion, their minds becoming gentle.

Getting coarse, dry food, they should wish that all beings have no attachments, and cut off mundane craving.

When they eat, they should wish that all beings feed on the joy of meditation and be sated by delight in truth.

When tasting flavor, they should wish that all beings attain the supreme savor of Buddhahood, and be filled with the elixir of immortality.

When the meal is finished, they should wish that all beings accomplish all their tasks and fulfill the Buddha’s teachings.

When they explain the teaching, they should wish that all beings attain inexhaustible eloquence and widely expound the essentials of the teaching.

When they leave a place, they should wish that all beings deeply enter enlightened knowledge, knowing past, present, and future are equal.

While washing their bodies, they should wish that all beings be undefiled in body and mind, radiantly pure inside and out.

In the blistering heat of the day, they should wish that all beings cast off myriad afflictions, putting an end to them all.

When the heat subsides and begins to cool, they should wish that all beings experience the highest truth and be ultimately cool.

When reciting scripture, they should wish that all beings accord with the Buddha’s teachings remembering without forgetting.

If they get to see a buddha, they should wish that all beings be all like Universally Good, handsome and well adorned.

When seeing a Buddha’s tomb, they should wish that all beings be honored as the shrine and receive the offerings of celestials and humans.

Reverently gazing at the shrine, they should wish that all beings be looked up to by all celestials and humans.

Bowing their heads to the shrine, they should wish that all beings be exalted beyond the view of gods and men.

Circumbulating the shrine, they should wish that all beings act without offense and develop omniscience.

Circling the shrine thrice, they should wish that all beings diligently see the Buddha’s path without indolence of mind.

Praising the Buddha’s virtues, they should wish that all beings fulfill all virtues extolled endlessly.

Praising the Buddha’s distinguishing marks, they should wish that all beings develop the Buddha-body and realize the formless truth.

When washing their feet, they should wish that all beings fulfill the bases of spiritual powers, unhindered whenever they go.

When going to sleep at night, they should wish that all beings attain physical ease and undisturbed mind.

Awakening from sleep, they should wish that all beings awaken omniscience, perceiving in all directions.

"Child of Buddha, if enlightening beings use their minds in this way, they will attain all supremely wonderful qualities, which cannot be dislodged by any god, demons, monks, brahmins, grandharvas, titans, etc., or by any Buddhist followers of self-enlightened ones."

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