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The four metaphors (Tib. འདུ་ཤེས་བཞི་, du shé shyi, Wyl. 'du shes bzhi) explain the conduct to be adopted when listening to the teachings, and are given in the Gandavyuha Sutra, which is the final section of the Avatamsaka Sutra.[1]

Noble one, think of yourself as someone who is sick,
Of the Dharma as the remedy,
Of your spiritual teacher as a skilful doctor,
And of diligent practice as the way to recovery.[2]

Tibetan

༈ སྡོང་པོ་བཀོད་པ་ལས།
རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་བདག་ཉིད་ལ་ནད་པའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
ཆོས་ལ་སྨན་གྱི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་ལ་སྨན་པ་མཁས་པའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །
ནན་ཏན་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་པ་ནི་ནད་ཉེ་བར་འཚོ་བའི་འདུ་ཤེས་བསྐྱེད་པར་བྱའོ། །

Alternative Translations

  • Four ideas
  • Four notions
  • Four attitudes (Padmakara Translation Group)
  • Four concepts (Andreas Kretschmar)

References

  1. Bibliography of The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by Padmakara Translation Group, ISBN 0-06-066449-5, page 443.
  2. Patrul Rinpoche, Preliminary Points to be Explained When Teaching the Buddha’s Word or the Treatises, translated by Adam Pearcey.

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