Great enlightening beings give away land. They may give it to Buddhas, building retreats, or they may give it to enlightening beings and teachers to use as they wish, or they may give it to mendicant groups for a place of abode, or they may give it to their parents or to other people, to Buddhist disciples, to individual illuminates, to various fields of blessings, including the poor, orphaned, homeless, and others. They give whatever is wished to fulfill their needs. They may build Buddhas mausoleums and provide all necessary articles for such places so they may be used as wished without fear or hesitation. Whenever great enlightening beings give land, they dedicate the roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings fully realize

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the pure stage of universal knowledge and arrive at the consummation of the practices of universal good. May all sentient beings attain the stage of total mental command and receive and hold all Buddha teachings with right recollection. May all sentient beings attain sustaining power and be able to preserve all Buddha teachings. May all sentient beings attain a mind like the earth with intentions ever pure and free from evil thoughts towards sentient beings. May all sentient beings maintain the lineage of Buddhas, accomplishing the processes of the stages of enlightening beings without interruption. May all sentient beings become abodes of safety for all, causing all to be harmonized and pacified and to abide in the path of purity.

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May all sentient beings benefit the world the same as enlightened ones, causing all to diligently cultivate themselves and abide securely in the power of Buddhahood. May all sentient beings be liked by all the world and cause everyone to abide in the highest happiness of Buddhahood. May all sentient beings attain skill and means of liberation and abide in the power and fearlessness of Buddhahood. May all sentient beings attain knowledge like the earth and freely practice all Buddha teachings. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when giving land to cause sentient beings to all attain ultimate consummation of the pure state of all enlightened ones. Great enlightening beings give servants as offerings to all Buddhas and enlightening beings, genuine teachers,

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or they may give them to the religious community or to their parents, honorable fields of blessings, or again, they may give them to sentient beings suffering from illness to fulfill their needs and preserve their lives, or they may give them to the poor and helpless and all others without attendance, or they may give countless servants from time to time to look after the shrines and mausoleums of Buddhas or to transcribe the true teachings of the Buddhas. Those servants are all intelligent and highly skilled, naturally obedient, always diligent and never lazy, with honest minds, peaceful and happy minds, altruistic minds, humane and benevolent minds, respectful minds, minds free from resentment and hostility, able to adjust to the customs of those for whom they work,

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able to be of benefit to everyone. Also, from the influences of the enlightening beings' pure conduct, they have talent and artistry, they are and are masters of crafts and mathematics, they are skilled in service and able to please. At that time, the enlightening beings dedicate their roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings attain docile minds, cultivating roots of goodness with all Buddhas. May all sentient beings obediently provide offerings to all Buddhas and be able to hear and absorb what the Buddhas teach. May all sentient beings be accepted by the Buddhas, always observe the enlightened ones without any other thought. May all sentient beings not spoil the seed of Buddhahood, diligently cultivating all roots of goodness

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in accord with the Buddhas. May all sentient beings always diligently provide for all Buddhas, not wasting any time. May all sentient beings hold the sublime doctrines of the Buddhas, their words pure, traveling without fear. May all sentient beings always be happy to see Buddhas, never tiring, not begrudging their lives to the Buddhas. May all sentient beings get to see the Buddhas, their minds without indulgence or attachment, free from worldly dependence. May all sentient beings only take refuge in Buddha and forever leave all false resorts. May all sentient beings follow the Buddha way, their minds always blissfully contemplating the supreme Buddha teaching. This is great enlightening beings dedication

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of roots of goodness when giving servants to cause sentient beings to get rid of defilement, clear the ground of Buddhahood and be able to manifest the free body of the enlightened. Great enlightening beings give their bodies to those who come ask for them. When they give, they engender a humble mind, a mind like the earth, a mind enduring all suffering without changing or wavering, a mind to serve sentient beings tirelessly, a mind regarding all sentient beings like a benevolent mother, turning over all their virtues to them, a mind of forgiveness for the various impositions and aggressions of ignorant evil beings and rest on the foundations of goodness, diligently performing service. At that time, enlightening beings dedicate all the roots of goodness in this way.

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May all sentient beings never lack what they need, cultivate the practices of enlightening beings unremittingly, not give up the just rewards of all enlightening beings, remain on the path traveled by enlightening beings, comprehend the equal real nature of enlightening beings, get to be of the number of the family of Buddhas, abide by truthful speech, sustain enlightening practice, cause all worldlings to be able to clarify the Buddha teaching, deeply believe in it, and realize the ultimate consummation of the teaching and cause sentient beings to produce pure excellent roots of goodness, abide in great virtue and fulfilled universal knowledge. Also with these roots of goodness, I will cause all sentient beings to always get to attend all Buddhas,

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to understand all their teachings, to bear the teachings, reading and reciting them, never forgetting them, or letting them be lost or scattered, their minds well subdued. Those who are not self-controlled, I will tame, training them with the methods of stillness and serenity. I will cause sentient beings in the presence of the Buddhas to persevere in these things. Also by these roots of goodness, I will cause all sentient beings to be the foremost monument worthy of receiving the various offerings of the world. I will cause all sentient beings to become supreme fields of blessings, attain Buddha knowledge, and enlighten everyone. I will cause all sentient beings to become the best of recipients, able to benefit all living beings.

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I will cause all sentient beings to become the best of benefactors, able to foster the endowment of all roots of goodness. I will cause all sentient beings to become the finest receivers of gifts, able to cause the givers to obtain infinite rewards. I will cause all sentient beings to attain emancipation from the realms of desire, form, and formlessness. I will cause all sentient beings to become the foremost of leaders, able to show the world the path that accords with truth. I will cause all sentient beings to attain marvelous total mental command, fully holding all the true teachings of the Buddhas. I will cause all sentient beings to attain realization of the infinite primary cosmos of reality and fulfill the true path unobstructed as space.

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This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when giving their own bodies to cause all sentient beings to attain the body of infinite knowledge of the sanctified ones. Great enlightening beings are joyful when they hear the teaching. They conceive pure faith and are able to offer their own bodies to the Buddha, rapidly believing in the treasure of the unexcelled teaching. They think of the Buddhas as their parents and read and recite, absorb and hold the teachings of the path of non-obstruction, entering into all the gates of countless teachings, jewels of wisdom, roots of goodness. Their minds always think of infinite Buddhas. They enter the sphere of Buddhahood and attain to deep comprehension of its principles. They are able, with the subtle, mysterious,

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pure voice of the enlightened, to produce clouds of Buddha teachings and shower rain of Buddha teachings. Bravely and freely, they are able to analytically explain the supreme state of the omniscient, fully consummating the vehicle of all knowledge. They fulfill all potentials with immeasurable hundreds of thousands of millions of great teachings. When great enlightening beings hear such teachings from the Buddhas, their joy knows no bounds. They abide firmly by the truth, cut off their own doubt and confusion, and also cause others' doubts to be removed as well. Their minds are always light and happy, full of virtuous qualities, replete with roots of goodness. Their attention is continuous, helping sentient beings without their minds

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ever being exhausted. They attain supreme knowledge and become treasuries of diamonds. They associate closely with Buddhas and purify Buddha fields, always diligently attend all the enlightened ones. At that time, the enlightening beings dedicate the roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings attain a fully developed, most excellent body in the care of all Buddhas. May all sentient beings always be near the Buddhas, abide with the Buddhas, and always gaze upon them, never leaving. May all sentient beings attain a pure, indestructible body, endowed with all virtue and knowledge. May all sentient beings always diligently serve all Buddhas and carry out the ultimate pure practice of non-assumption.

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May all sentient beings attain the egoless body, divorced from self and possession. May all sentient beings be able to distribute their bodies throughout the lands of the 10 directions, like reflections appearing, without coming or going. May all sentient beings attain the body of freedom, going everywhere in the 10 directions without self or reception. May all sentient beings attain the Buddha body, born in the home of the unexcelled embodiment of the realization of thusness. May all sentient beings attain the great power of forbearance of the body of power of truth, which none can break down. May all sentient beings attain the incomparable body and realize the pure body of reality of the enlightened. May all sentient beings develop the body

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of transmundane virtues, born in the pure realm of reality where nothing is obtained. This is the dedication of roots of goodness of enlightening beings when offering their bodies to Buddhas to cause sentient beings to dwell forever in the house of the Buddhas of past, present, and future. Great enlightening beings give their bodies to all sentient beings because they want to cause them to develop roots of goodness and to remember and think of roots of goodness. Great enlightening beings wish their bodies to be great bright lamps able to illumine all sentient beings, to be means of life supporting all beings, to be treasuries of wonderful teaching able to sustain all living beings, to be pure light to awaken all sentient beings, to be lights of the world causing all sentient beings

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to always see, to be causes and conditions of roots of goodness causing sentient beings to always get the opportunity to meet them, to be genuine teachers causing all sentient beings to receive instruction and guidance, to be even paths on which all sentient beings may tread, to be unexcelled complete comfort enabling all sentient beings to be freed from suffering and be purified, to be clear suns universally and impartially benefiting the world. At that time enlightening beings dedicate the roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings always associate with the Buddhas and enter the realm of Buddha knowledge. May all sentient beings attain adaptable knowledge and abide in unexcelled awareness. May all sentient beings always be in the assemblies

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of Buddhas and their minds be well tuned. May all sentient beings always comport themselves with the dignity of Buddhas. May all sentient beings attain nirvana and profoundly understand the meaning of the teaching. May all sentient beings be complete in knowledge and conduct and be born in the house of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings give up ignorant craving and abide in the aspiration of Buddhahood. May all sentient beings develop excellent roots of goodness and sit at the tree of enlightenment. May all sentient beings slay the brigands that are the afflictions and get rid of these enemies. May all sentient beings fully preserve all Buddha teachings. This is great enlightening beings dedication of roots of goodness when giving their bodies to all sentient beings because they want to benefit

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all sentient beings and cause them to reach the realm of supreme peace. Great enlightening beings personally attend the Buddhas wanting to requite their great benevolence, thinking of them as like parents. They have deep faith in the Buddhas and preserve enlightenment, abiding by the principles of the Buddhas, detaching from mundane conceptions. Born in the house of the enlightened, they follow the Buddhas, leaving the realm of delusion. They arrive at the sphere of action of all Buddhas and become vessels of the teachings of all Buddhas. At that time, the enlightening beings dedicate these roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings attain pure minds and adorn themselves with the jewel of universal knowledge. May all sentient beings abide in good self-control

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and avoid all bad actions. May all sentient beings gain indestructible, steadfast retinues able to absorb the true teaching of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings become students of Buddhas and reach the enlightening beings stage of coronation. May all sentient beings always be in the keeping of the Buddhas and forever give up whatever is not good. May all sentient beings follow the Buddhas and practice the supreme principle of enlightening beings. May all sentient beings enter the sphere of Buddhas and receive the prediction of omniscience. May all sentient beings be thoroughly equal to the Buddhas and master all the Buddha teachings. May all sentient beings be in the care of the Buddhas and always be able to practice acting

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without grasping or attachment. May all sentient beings become the foremost attendants of the Buddhas and in the company of the Buddhas cultivate the practice of knowledge and wisdom. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when attending Buddhas because they want to actually realize the enlightenment of the Buddhas, because they want to save all sentient beings, because they want to transcend all in the triple world, because they want to perfect non-malevolence, because they want to attain immeasurably great enlightenment, because they want to develop knowledge illuminating the Buddha teachings, because they want to always receive acceptance by the Buddhas, because they want to gain the protection of the Buddhas, because they want to truly understand all Buddha teachings,

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because they want to develop roots of goodness equal to those of the Buddhas of all times, and because they want to fully develop an unembittered mind and realize the teachings of all Buddhas. Great enlightening beings give up their countries able to relinquish all things, including monarchy, their minds attain freedom from all worldly concerns, and they have no ties, no bonds, no obsessions or attachments. They avoid evil deeds and work for the benefit of sentient beings without attachment to the results of their deeds. They do not take pleasure in worldly things and are no longer attached to or eager for any realm of existence. Though they live in the world, they do not set their hearts on it. They do not cling to material, mental or sense phenomena,

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and their minds do not rest on anything internal or external. They never forget the practices of enlightening beings and never abandon the wise. Keeping the far-reaching practical commitments of enlightening beings, they always gladly serve all good companions. At such times, the enlightening beings dedicate these roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings become monarchs of truth, masters of truth, and reach the other shore. May all sentient beings become monarchs of the Buddha teaching and destroy their enemies, the afflictions. May all sentient beings dwell in the sovereignty of Buddhahood, attain enlightened knowledge, and expound the Buddha teachings. May all sentient beings live in the realm of Buddhahood and be able to turn the wheel of the teaching

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of unexcelled freedom. May all sentient beings be born in the house of the enlightened ones, master the teachings, and preserve the family of Buddhas forever. May all sentient beings reveal innumerable true teachings of the King of Truth, perfecting boundless great enlightening beings. May all sentient beings abide in the pure realm of reality, become monarchs of the great truth, and manifest the emergence of Buddhas, continuing unbroken. May all sentient beings be monarchs of knowledge and wisdom in all worlds, edifying and guiding living beings without ever abandoning them. May all sentient beings be donors of truth to all sentient beings in all worlds throughout the space of the cosmos, enabling them all to abide in the great vehicle.

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May all sentient beings manage to become monarchs replete with myriad virtues, with roots of goodness equal to those of the Buddhas of past, present, and future. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when giving away monarchy, because they want to cause all sentient beings to ultimately live in peace. When great enlightening beings see people come asking for the magnificent buildings of the royal capital, as well as the revenues from customs duties collected at the borders, they give it all ungrudgingly, wholeheartedly turning toward enlightenment, making great vows, abiding in great benevolence, practicing great compassion, their minds joyfully intent on helping sentient beings. By great knowledge, they understand the profound truth

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and abide in the equal real nature of Buddhas. They practice giving because they are determined to find omniscience, because they have profound longing for freedom, because they seek realization of independent knowledge, because they purify all virtues, because they abide in steadfast great knowledge, because they extensively gather all kinds of roots of goodness, because they carry out the undertakings of all the Buddha teachings, because they spontaneously awaken to the principle of great knowledge, because they abide in enlightenment without regressing, because they cultivate the practical vows of all enlightening beings, and because they thoroughly consummate knowledge of methods of enlightenment. These roots of goodness, they dedicate in this way. May all sentient beings be able to purify infinite lands

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and present them to the Buddhas to live in. May all sentient beings always enjoy living in forests, silent, peaceful, undisturbed. May all sentient beings not dwell in capitals or cities, their hearts delighting in peace and quiet, forever attaining ultimate serenity. May all sentient beings be forever unattached to any world and always gladly avoid all mundane talk. May all sentient beings attain hearts free from covetousness, giving whatever they have without regret. May all sentient beings attain emancipated minds, giving up occupation with business. May all sentient beings be free from miserliness and always practice generous giving. May all sentient beings have unattached minds, transcending the events of home life.

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May all sentient beings attain freedom from suffering and eliminate all fear of calamity. May all sentient beings purify all worlds and the 10 directions and present them to the Buddhas. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when giving away royal capitals to cause sentient beings to all be able to purify the Buddha fields. Great enlightening beings, ladies-in-waiting, are all beautiful and talented, witty and graceful, skilled in conversation, dancing and singing, adorned with various clothes, flowers and perfumes, endlessly delightful to all who see them. Such precious women, countless numbers of them, are all born of the good deeds of enlightening beings, free to do as they will, yet impeccably respectful and agreeable.

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All of them, the enlightening beings, give to those who ask for them, without longing for them, without missing them, without obsession with them, without attachment to them, without clinging to them, without craving for them, without thinking about them, without pursuing them, without attachment to their appearance, without lust for them. At such a time, the enlightening beings contemplate the roots of goodness and dedicate them to enabling all sentient beings to attain emancipation, to attain the joy of the Buddha teachings, to attain the enduring in the midst of the unenduring, to attain the incorruptible mind of adamantine knowledge, to enter the site of Buddha's enlightenment, to reach the other shore, to attain the supremely enlightened mind,

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to be able to comprehend all things, to produce all roots of goodness, to enter the house of the Buddhas of all times. Great enlightening beings abiding by this principle are born in the house of the enlightened, develop the pure supreme causal basis of the Buddhas, produce the supreme path of universal knowledge, enter deeply into the far-reaching work of knowledge of enlightening beings, and get rid of all worldly defilements and afflictions. They are always able to provide offerings to the various fields of blessings. They expound the wondrous teaching to sentient beings, skillfully arranging it, causing them to cultivate pure practices, always endeavoring to embody all roots of goodness. At such a time, the enlightening beings dedicate the roots of goodness

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in this way. May all sentient beings always attain a retinue of innumerable concentrations, the supreme concentration of enlightening beings continuing uninterrupted. May all sentient beings always delight in seeing Buddha and enter absorption in the adornments of Buddhas. May all sentient beings accomplish the inconceivable concentration of enlightening beings, sporting freely in immeasurable spiritual powers. May all sentient beings attain concentration in accord with truth and attain incorruptible minds. May all sentient beings thoroughly attain the most profound concentration of enlightening beings and realize freedom in all meditations and concentrations. May all sentient beings attain liberated minds and accomplish the group of all concentration states.

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May all sentient beings attain skill in all kinds of concentration, able to take in all aspects of concentration. May all sentient beings attain concentration of supreme knowledge, able to learn and practice the various methods of concentration. May all sentient beings attain unobstructed concentration and enter into deep meditation concentration, never regressing or losing it. May all sentient beings attain unattached concentration, their minds always sensing truly and not grasping duality. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness when giving away their retinues, because they want to cause all sentient beings to gain indestructible, pure retinues, because they want to cause all sentient beings to gain retinues of enlightening beings,

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because they want to cause all sentient beings to be able to fulfill the powers of omniscience, because they want to cause all sentient beings to realize supreme wisdom, because they want to cause all sentient beings to have amenable retinues, because they want to cause all sentient beings to attain the pure reality body of the enlightened, because they want to cause all sentient beings to attain orderly reasonable powers of elucidation and skillfully expound the inexhaustible treasury of the Buddha's teachings, because they want to cause all sentient beings to forever relinquish all conventional mundane virtues and equally cultivate pure transmundane virtues, because they want to cause all sentient beings purifying work to be complete and develop all pure qualities, and because they want to cause

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all Buddha teachings to be evident to all sentient beings universally purified by the light of truth. Great enlightening beings can give away their beloved spouses and children, as did the loving prince, adornment manifesting monarch, and countless other great enlightening beings. At such a time, the enlightening beings mount the mind of all knowledge, carry out total giving, and purely cultivate the path of giving of enlightening beings, their minds clear and without regret. They give up what they prize in quest of omniscience to cause sentient beings to have profound pure aspirations, accomplish the practice of enlightenment, observe the path of enlightening beings, reflect on the enlightenment of the Buddhas, and abide in the family of Buddhas. When great

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enlightening beings have developed such a giving mind, they determine to seek the body of Buddhahood. They observe their own bodies to be bound to everything and unable to be independent. Still, they help all sentient beings with their own bodies like continents of treasure, giving all, causing the unfulfilled to be fulfilled. Thus do enlightening beings care for sentient beings, wishing to cause their own bodies to be the best of monuments, to cause all to become joyful. They want to create an egalitarian, equanimous attitude in the world. They want to be reservoirs of pure coolness for sentient beings. They want to give all peace and happiness to sentient beings. They want to be great donors to sentient beings. They are capable of such magnificent commitments because their knowledge is

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free and they know the practices carried out by enlightening beings. Proceeding toward omniscience, they vow to become supremely wise fields of blessings. They care for all sentient beings and always follow and protect them while being able to accomplish their own salvation. Their light of knowledge and wisdom illumines the whole world. They always conscientiously remember the generosity of enlightening beings and always rapidly contemplate the sphere of realization of thusness. Great enlightening beings dedicate the roots of virtue collected by giving away spouses and children with unbound, unattached, liberated minds in this way. May all sentient beings abiding in the enlightenment of Buddhahood produce phantom bodies pervading the cosmos,

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turning the wheel of teaching that never turns back. May all sentient beings attain the body of non-attachment and go to all Buddha fields by the power of will. May all sentient beings give up the mind of love and hate and sever the knot of greed and anger. May all sentient beings be children of the Buddhas following the course of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings steadfastly think of the Buddhas as themselves. May all sentient beings always be children of Buddha, born by transformation from the teaching. May all sentient beings reach the ultimate and accomplish the independent knowledge and wisdom of the enlightened. May all sentient beings realize the enlightenment of Buddhahood and be forever free of afflictions. May all sentient beings be able to fully

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expound the way to enlightenment, always blissfully practicing the giving of the unsurpassed teaching. May all sentient beings attain a rightly concentrated mind, their concentration unbroken by any objects. May all sentient beings sit at the tree of enlightenment, attain supreme true awakening and teach innumerable good men and women born by transformation from the teaching. This is enlightening beings dedication of roots of goodness when giving spouses and children to cause sentient beings to all realize the unattached knowledge of unhindered liberation. Great enlightening beings give houses and furniture to any who ask for them, practicing the principle of generosity, having no attachments to home, leaving behind all thoughts of home life, fed up with family

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business, having no craving or taste for comforts and conveniences. Their minds are without ties or attachments. They know the household is fragile and they disdain it, having no craving for it at all, only wanting to leave home and cultivate the practices of enlightening beings, adorning themselves with the enlightening teachings and qualities of Buddhahood. They give up all without regret, always praised by the Buddhas, generously giving whatever they have, houses, goods, wherever they are, without attachment in their minds. When they see beggars come, they are joyful. And the enlightening beings dedicate these roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings be liberated from the ties of householding, enter homelessness, and cultivate religious practice in

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Buddhism. May all sentient beings get rid of the taint of miserliness and gladly give all, their minds never shrinking back. May all sentient beings forever detach from householding, have few desires, be content, not storing anything. May all sentient beings leave the home of conventional society and live in the home of the enlightened. May all sentient beings be free from clinging to home and family, and though they live at home, have no attachment in their minds. May all sentient beings be skillful teachers and guides, expounding enlightened wisdom without leaving lay life. May all sentient beings, while physically living at home, mentally always live in accord with Buddha knowledge. May all sentient beings, while in the state of lay home life, dwell in the state of Buddhahood and

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cause infinite sentient beings to develop joyful minds. This is great enlightening beings dedication of roots of goodness when giving houses to cause sentient beings to accomplish the various practical vows and spiritual powers and knowledge of enlightening beings. Great enlightening beings give all kinds of gardens, groves, terraces, and pleasant parks with this thought. I should make a fine grove for all sentient beings. I should show all sentient beings the pleasure of the teaching. I should give all sentient beings joy. I should show all sentient beings boundless enjoyment. I should open the gate of the teaching of purity for all sentient beings. I should cause all sentient beings minds to swell with joy. I should cause all beings to attain complete enlightenment. I should

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cause all beings to fulfill the great vow. I should be like a benevolent father to all sentient beings. I should cause all sentient beings to observe with knowledge and wisdom. I should give all beings the necessities of life. I should be like a loving mother to all sentient beings, nurturing all roots of goodness and great aspirations. When great enlightening beings cultivate roots of goodness like this, they do not detest evil sentient beings and do not make the mistake of thinking to reject them. Even if all the beings in the world are ingrates, they never have hatred or resentment and never give a thought to revenge. They only want to annihilate their innumerable sufferings and afflictions. In all worlds, their minds are like space, unaffected and unattached. Everywhere they observe the true character of all things. They take

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the great vow to extinguish the suffering of sentient beings, never wearying of or abandoning the determination of the great vehicle. Annihilating all views, they cultivate the impartial practice and vows of enlightening beings. Great enlightening beings, having contemplated in this way, unify all their roots of goodness and dedicate them all in this way. May all sentient beings richly produce innumerable good qualities moment to moment and develop minds like supreme gardens and groves. May all sentient beings attain imperturbability, see all Buddhas and make them happy. May all sentient beings enjoy the garden of truth and attain to sublime enjoyment of the gardens of the Buddha lands. May all sentient beings attain pure minds and

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always see the garden of psychic powers of the enlightened ones. May all sentient beings attain the playful enjoyment of Buddhahood, always sporting in the realm of wisdom. May all sentient beings attain the pleasure of carefree roaming, traveling to the assemblies and enlightenment sites in Buddha fields everywhere. May all sentient beings accomplish the liberated roaming of enlightening beings and carry out the practice of enlightening beings throughout the future without ever tiring of it. May all sentient beings see all Buddhas filling the cosmos, develop vastly broad minds and abide in the groves of Buddhahood. May all sentient beings be able to go to all Buddha fields and give offerings to the Buddhas in each and every field. May all

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sentient beings attain hearts of good desires, purifying and adorning all Buddha fields. This is great enlightening beings dedication of roots of goodness when giving away all gardens, groves and terraces. Great enlightening beings perform countless great charitable works, all pure, approved by the Buddhas, never injuring a single sentient being, causing all sentient beings to avoid all evils, to purify their action, speech and thought and to achieve wisdom. They clear countless spheres of purity and pile up there in countless fine things to support life, activating the most rarely attained spirit of enlightenment. They practice unlimited giving, causing sentient beings to abide in the path of purity, good in the beginning, the middle and the end, and to engender pure faith.

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They gladden countless sentient beings according to their heart's desires. With great benevolence and compassion, they bring all to safety. They serve and provide for the Buddhas of the past, present and future. Because they want to develop the seed of Buddhahood, they practice giving without regret in their hearts, increasing the development of the faculty of faith, fulfilling superlative conduct, moment to moment progressing to transcendence. At such times, the enlightening beings dedicate the roots of goodness in this way. May all sentient beings develop the mind of the great vehicle and be able to accomplish the giving of the great vehicle. May all sentient beings be able to carry out giving to the masses, total giving, good giving, supreme giving, unexcelled giving, most unsurpassable giving, incomparable giving, giving

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transcending all worlds, giving praised by all the Buddhas. May all sentient beings become the best of donors, rescuing sentient beings from the various conditions of misery, and enabling them to enter the path of unobstructed knowledge, cultivating impartial views, roots of goodness in accord with truth, attaining non-discrimination, realizing inherent knowledge. May all sentient beings abide securely in the dispassionate serene knowledge of meditation concentrations, enter the undying path, consummate knowledge of all spiritual powers, persevere bravely to fulfill the enlightened qualities adorning all the stages and reach the other shore, never turning back. May all sentient beings set up great charities without ever wearying, providing for and

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helping sentient beings unceasingly, consummating the unexcelled knowledge of all means of liberation. May all sentient beings always diligently plant all roots of goodness and reach the other shore of myriad virtues. May all sentient beings always be praised by the Buddhas and be great donors in the world, replete with virtues filling the cosmos, illumining the ten directions, giving unexcelled happiness. May all sentient beings establish great charities, widely gathering roots of goodness, equally including all sentient beings and arrive at the other shore. May all sentient beings accomplish supreme giving, causing sentient beings everywhere to abide in the foremost vehicle. May all sentient beings give at appropriate times, forever avoid improper timing and consummate

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great giving. May all sentient beings accomplish good giving and reach the other shore of great giving of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings ultimately always carry on magnificent giving, considering all Buddhas their teachers, able to approach them all and make great offerings. May all sentient beings abide in pure giving, gathering infinite virtues equal to the cosmos and reach the other shore. May all sentient beings be great donors in all worlds, vowing to liberate all creatures and live in the realm of the enlightened. This is great enlightening beings dedication of roots of goodness, when establishing great charities to cause sentient beings to practice supreme giving, giving to consummate Buddhahood, giving to perfect goodness, incorruptible giving, giving of

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offerings to Buddhas, giving without resentment, giving to save sentient beings, giving to attain omniscience, giving to always see the Buddhas, giving with great perseverance, great giving to perfect the virtues of all enlightening beings and the knowledge and wisdom of Buddhahood. Great enlightening beings give all necessities of life unbegrudgingly, without seeking reward, without hoping for worldly prosperity or happiness. They rid the mind of errant thought and meditate well on the truth because they want to benefit all sentient beings and clearly perceive the true nature of all things. According to the various different needs of sentient beings, they prepare innumerable things to support life, the embellishments of which are all fine and beautiful. They carry

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out unbounded giving, total giving, and giving of everything internal and external. When they carry out this giving, they increase their power of determination, gain great virtue, perfect the jewel of mind, and are ever able to safeguard all sentient beings, causing them all to develop the most excellent aspirations, yet with never a thought of seeking reward. Their roots of goodness are equal to those of the Buddhas of past, present, and future, and by them they all fulfill the knowledge of all means of liberation. Great enlightening beings dedicate all the roots of goodness in this giving to sentient beings, that all sentient beings may be purified and master themselves, that all sentient beings may extinguish afflictions and purify all Buddha fields, that all

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sentient beings with a pure mind may pervade the cosmos in a single moment of thought, that all sentient beings may fill the cosmos of space with knowledge, that all sentient beings attain universal knowledge, enter everywhere in the three realms of desire, form, and formlessness, and tame sentient beings at all times, turning the irreversible wheel of the pure teaching, that all sentient beings may be endowed with omniscience and be able to manifest the techniques of spiritual powers to benefit sentient beings, that all sentient beings be able to awaken to complete enlightenment and forever ceaselessly expound the true teaching in all regions, causing all beings who get to hear and know of it, that all sentient beings may cultivate the practices of enlightening beings for

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countless eons and manage to fulfill them all, that all sentient beings may cultivate the practices of enlightening beings in all worlds that may be accounted or spoken of, be they defiled or pure worlds, small or large, gross or subtle, inverted or upright, uniformly or variously adorned, extending throughout them all, that all sentient beings may, in every passing moment, perform the work of Buddhas of past, present, and future, teaching and transforming sentient beings and turning them toward universal knowledge. Great enlightening beings provide sentient beings with everything they need in order to cause the Buddha teaching to continue unbroken. With great compassion, they save all sentient beings. Abiding stably in great benevolence, they cultivate the practices

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of enlightening beings. They never violate the teachings of the Buddha. With skill and means, they practice whatever is good, not letting the lineage of Buddhas die out. They give whatever is required without being troubled. They give all with never a regret, being always earnestly dedicated to the path of universal knowledge. At such times, the various forms and species of living creatures from the lands of the ten directions, various fields of blessings, all come and gather around the enlightening beings, making various requests of them. The enlightening beings seeing them receive them all, their hearts becoming joyful, like seeing good friends. With great compassion and mercy, they want to satisfy their wishes. Their generosity increases unceasingly, and without weariness, they fulfill their requests, satisfying them according to

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their needs, freeing them from the miseries of destitution. Then the seekers are very happy and spread the voice of praise of the virtue of the enlightening beings, so that their good repute becomes widespread, and everyone comes to them. The joy of the enlightening beings upon seeing them has no measure. Even if one experienced the pleasures of Indra, monarch of gods, for a trillion quadrillion eons, experienced the pleasures of the Suyama heaven for countless eons, experienced the pleasures of the Tushita heaven for immeasurable eons, experienced the pleasures of the heaven of good emanations for boundless eons, experienced the pleasures of the heaven of free enjoyment of others' emanations for incomparable eons, experienced the pleasures of the Brahma kings for uncountable eons, experienced the 3,000

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royal treasures of world monarchs for unaccountable eons, experienced the pleasures of the heaven of universal purity for unthinkable eons, and experienced the pleasures of the heaven of pure abodes for unspeakably many eons. None of it could equal the joy and delight of great enlightening beings upon seeing the needy come to them. They are happy and ebullient. Their faith grows. Their aspiration is pure. Their faculties are harmoniously tuned. Their resolution is fully developed, and they progress toward complete enlightenment. The great enlightening beings dedicate these roots of goodness to the welfare of all sentient beings, to the peace and happiness of all sentient beings, to the true benefit of all sentient beings, to the purification of all sentient

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beings, to induce all sentient beings to seek enlightenment, to cause all sentient beings to attain equality, to cause all sentient beings to attain intelligent benevolent minds, to cause all sentient beings to enter the great vehicle, to cause all sentient beings to attain wisdom, and to cause all sentient beings to fulfill the practical undertakings of the universally good, enlightening being, fulfill the vehicle of the ten powers, and actually realize true awakening. When great enlightening beings dedicate roots of goodness this way, they are liberated in word, thought, and deed. They have no attachments or bonds, no concept of sentient beings, no concept of a life, no concept of a personality, no concept of a person, no concept of a youth, no concept

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of one born, no concept of an agent, no concept of a receiver, no concept of existence, no concept of non-existence, no concept of present life or afterlife, no concept of dying here and being born there, no concept of permanence, no concept of impermanence, no concept of the three realms of existence, no concept of the non existence of the three realms, they are not perceiving, nor are they not perceiving. Thus, they are not practicing dedication bound, not practicing dedication liberated from bonds, not practicing dedication by action, not practicing dedication by the results of action, not practicing dedication with discrimination, not practicing dedication indiscriminately, not practicing dedication

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thinking, not practicing dedication after thought, not practicing dedication with mind, not practicing dedication mindlessly. When great enlightening beings practice dedication in this way, they do not cling to inside or outside, subject or object, cause or effect, right or wrong, thought or non thought, from the birth of form, the passing away of form, or to sensation, perception, patterning, or consciousness, or to birth, or passing away of sensation, perception, patterning, or consciousness. If great enlightening beings are not able to be bound by these things, then they are not bound by form, or by the birth or passing away of form. They are not bound by sensation, perception, patterning,

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or consciousness, or by the birth or passing away of sensation, perception, patterning, or consciousness. If they are able to not be bound by these things, then they also are not released from these things. Why? Because there does not exist the slightest thing being born, already born, or to be born. There is nothing that can be apprehended, nothing that can be clung to. All things are inherently like this. They have no intrinsic nature of their own. They are intrinsically incompatible with any characterization, neither one nor two, not many and not infinite, not small or large, not narrow or broad, not deep or shallow, not nullity and not concepts, not so and not not so, not truth and not not truth, not substantial and not insubstantial, not existent and not nonexistent. Enlightening

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beings thus see things as not things, while in terms of speech they follow convention in defining what are not things as things. They do not cut off the paths of action and do not give up enlightening practices. They seek omniscience without ever turning back. They know that all conditions of action are like dreams, that sounds and voices are like echoes, that sentient beings are like shadows, that all things are like phantoms, yet they do not deny the power of the action of causes and conditions. They know that the function of actions is far-reaching. They understand that all things do nothing and traverse the path of non-doing without ever giving it up. These great enlightening beings abide in universal

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knowledge, dedicating all, whether positive or negative, to omniscience. They practice dedication in all places without ever retreating. In what senses, by what meanings, is it called dedication? It is called dedication because of having crossed over the world forever and arrived at the other shore. It is called dedication because of crossing over the path of speech and arriving at the other shore. It is called dedication because of leaving behind all sorts of concepts and reaching the other shore. It is called dedication because of having forever ended the idea of corporeality and arrived at the other shore. It is called dedication because of having left dependency behind forever and reached the other shore. It is called

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dedication because of having ended contrivance forever and reached the other shore. It is called dedication because of having left all states of existence forever and arrived at the other shore. It is called dedication because of having abandoned all grasping forever and arrived at the other shore. It is called dedication because of having left all worldly things forever and arrived at the other shore. When great enlightening beings practice dedication in this way, then they are living in accord with the Buddha, in accord with the truth, in accord with knowledge, in accord with enlightenment, in accord with its meaning, in accord with its sphere, in accord with its practice, in accord with reality, and in accord with purity.

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When great enlightening beings practice dedication in this way, then they comprehend all things. Then they serve all Buddhas. There is not a single Buddha they do not attend, not a single thing they do not offer. There is not a single thing that can be destroyed, not a single thing that can be turned away from, not a single thing that can be clung to, not a single thing that can be avoided. They do not see anything at all, internal or external, that has any disintegration or violates causality. They are replete with the power of the teaching and never cease. This is the sixth of the great enlightening beings' dedications, following up and making permanent all roots of goodness, causing them to endure. When great enlightening beings abide in this dedication, they are always in the care of

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the Buddhas. They firmly endure, unregressing, and enter the profound essence of things, cultivating universal knowledge. They accord with the meaning of the teaching, accord with the nature of things, accord with all enduring roots of goodness, accord with all completely fulfilled great vows, and fully embody the truth which accords with prudence, which cannot be broken by even the adamant. In the midst of all things, they attain independence. Then the enlightening being Diamond Banner, surveying the ten directions, looking over the assembled masses, and viewing the cosmos, entered into the most profound meaning of verbal expression, cultivated an immeasurably broad mind, covered the whole world with the mind of great compassion, developed the mind of the family of Buddhas of past, future,

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and present, entered into the virtues of all Buddhas, perfected the body of independent powers of the Buddhas, observed the mental inclinations of sentient beings, and according to their roots of goodness that could be developed and matured, manifested physical bodies to them based on the body of the essence of things. Imbued with spiritual power from the Buddha, she said in verse, enlightening beings appear physically as monarchs in the highest worldly ranks, their virtues and glory surpassing all, providing benefit for all living creatures. Their minds are pure, without attachment. They are masters of the world, respected by all. They promulgate true teaching to educate people and cause sentient beings everywhere to attain peace. Manifesting birth among the noble, rising to monarchy, they always carry

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on the teaching according to the truth, benevolent by nature, free from cruelty, all in the ten directions look up to them and obey them. Their knowledge and discernment always clear. Their capacities are fully complete. As rulers and leaders, they are followed by all. They crush the armies of demons and annihilate them. They hold fast to pure morality without transgression. With firm determination, they forbear unshakably. They vow to forever clear away anger from the mind and always gladly practice the teachings of Buddha. Food and drink, perfumes and garlands, as well as clothes, vehicles, chairs, cushions and lamps, enlightening beings give these to people to help them and give innumerable other kinds of things as

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well. They practice giving to be of aid, causing them to open their hearts. In regard to the supreme as well as others, their minds are pure and full of joy. Enlightening beings provide for all, able to give up everything they have, internal and external, unfailingly causing their minds to be forever pure and never to be narrow or mean. They may give their heads or eyes or give their hands or feet, skin, flesh, bones, marrow and so on. All they give up unbegrudgingly. Enlightening beings on the throne of royalty of the most noble of tribes open their mouths and put forth their tongues to give living beings their hearts joyful without sorrow or attachment. The virtues of giving their tongues they dedicate

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to all sentient beings, praying that based on this excellent cause all may attain the universal tongue of the enlightened. They may give their spouses and children or their royal rank or give themselves to be servants. Their minds are pure and always joyful, thus they have no remorse or regret. They give whatever is required, aiding according to the time unwearied. All they have they can disperse so that all seekers be satisfied. They give their bodies to hear the teaching and practice austerities seeking enlightenment and for the sake of the living they give up all, seeking unexcelled knowledge without turning back. By the true teaching heard from the Buddhas they give up their bodies to be servants because they want to save all living beings. They develop a mind of infinite joy. They see the world

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honored guide can bring widespread wheel with kindness. Then they dance with joy and absorb the savor of the profound teaching of enlightenment. Whatever roots of goodness enlightening beings have they dedicate all to sentient beings. They rescue all without exception, forever liberating them so they're eternally at peace. Enlightening beings retinues are attracted talented, eloquent and intelligent, adorned with all manner of embellishments, flower garlands, clothes and perfumes. These retinues, rare as they are, enlightening beings are able to give away, wholeheartedly seeking true enlightenment to liberate beings, never for a moment giving up this determination. Enlightening beings thus think clearly and fully carry out various great works, dedicating all to conscious beings without developing

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a grasping mind. Enlightening beings give up their royal ranks as well as their land and cities, palaces, bowers, gardens and groves, servants and attendants, all ungrudgingly. Over countless millions of eons they travel everywhere giving, whereby they teach and lead living beings, causing them to ascend to the unexcelled shore. Countless species each different come and gather from all worlds, seeing them, enlightening beings are joyful and satisfy them according to need. Like the dedication of the Buddhas of all times, enlightening beings perform similar works, the course of the human taming lords they emulate to reach the other shore. Enlightening beings examine all things, who can comprehend these things,

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what is comprehension, what is comprehended, thus their giving dwells nowhere. The adaptive knowledge of enlightening beings dedication, the expedient methods of enlightening beings dedication, the true meaning of enlightening beings dedication, they have no attachment to those things. Their minds do not conceptualize actions arbitrarily and they are not obsessed with results of action. They know the nature of enlightenment comes from conditions and enter the profound realm of reality without opposition. They do not have action in their bodies nor does it dwell in the mind. By wisdom they realize there is no essence to action yet due to causality actions not lost. Their minds do not wrongly grasp things of the past

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nor crave for things of the future nor dwell on ought in the present. They know the three times are all void. Enlightening beings have already reached the other shore of form and of sensation, perception, patternings, and consciousness. They go beyond the flow of birth and death in the world, their minds humble and always pure. They clearly analyze the five clusters, 18 elements, 12 sense media, and their own bodies, looking for enlightenment in each. Their essential nature cannot be grasped. They do not claim to be enlightened. They do not cling to appearances of permanence in things nor cling to the appearance of annihilation. The nature of things is neither existent nor nonexistent while the process of the principle of action ultimately never ends. They do not dwell on anything at all, do not see sentient

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beings or enlightenment. Throughout all lands and all times they ultimately find they can not be found. If one can see things in this way, one will accord with the understanding of the Buddhas. Though one seek their essence, it cannot be found, yet enlightening beings practices are not in vain. Enlightening beings understand things exist due to conditions and they do not deviate from the paths they should travel. They clarify and explain the marks of all actions, wanting to purify all sentient beings. This is the path traversed by the wise, taught by all the enlightened ones. Following it reflectively, entering the true meaning, one will naturally awaken and become enlightened. Phenomena have no birth or extinction and they have no coming or going, not dying here and reborn there. They are

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all present and future. Such people understand the Buddha teachings. Comprehending the true nature of things, yet not conceptualizing the nature of things, knowing things have no essence and no discrimination, such people can enter the Buddha's knowledge. The nature of things is in all places, all sentient beings and all lands, in all times past, present and future. It has no apprehensible form. That which the Buddhas all realize is all-inclusive, omitting not. Though they explain all things in all times, all these things are not existent. As the nature of things pervades everywhere, so does the dedication of all sentient beings.

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