mi 'jigs pa

mi 'jigs pa

See "fourfold fearlessness."

The Buddha has four fearlessnesses, as do the bodhisattvas. The four fearlessnesses of the Buddha are: fearlessness regarding the realization of all things; fearlessness regarding knowledge of the exhaustion of all impurities; fearlessness of foresight through ascertainment of the persistence of obstructions; and fearlessness in the rightness of the path leading to the attainment of the supreme success. The fearlessnesses of the bodhisattva are: fearlessness in teaching the meaning he has understood from what he has learned and practiced; fearlessness resulting from the successful maintenance of purity in physical, verbal, and mental action—without relying on others' kindness, being naturally flawless through his understanding of the absence of self; fearlessness resulting from freedom from obstruction in virtue, in teaching, and in delivering living beings, through the perfection of wisdom and liberative art and through not forgetting and constantly upholding the teachings; and fearlessness in the ambition to attain full mastery of omniscience—without any deterioration or deviation to other practices—and to accomplish all the aims of all living beings.
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The four kinds of assurance of a tathāgata (caturvaiśāraya, {mi 'jigs pa bzhi}) are: 1) assurance concerning complete awakening (abhisambodhivaiśāradya, {thams cad mkhyen pa la mi 'jigs pa}); 2) assurance concerning the destruction of the impurities (āsravakṣayavaiśāradya, {zag pa zad pa mkhyen pa la mi 'jigs pa}); 3) assurance concerning harmful things (antarāyikadharmavaiśāradya, {bar du gcod pa'i chos la mi 'jigs pa}); 4) assurance concerning the path that leads to emancipation (nairyāṇikapratipadvaiśāradya, {thob par 'gyur bar nges par 'byung ba'i lam la mi 'jigs pa}). (See Rahula 2001: 230, in which they are called "perfect self-confidence").

This refers to the four confidences or fearlessnesses of the Buddha: confidence in having attained realization, confidence in having attained elimination, confidence in teaching the Dharma, and confidence in teaching the path of aspiration to liberation.

This refers to the four confidences or fearlessnesses of the Buddha: confidence in having attained realization, confidence in having fully eliminated all defilements, confidence in teaching the Dharma, and confidence in teaching the path of aspiration to liberation.

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