'Noble son, the seat of enlightenment is the seat of positive thought because it is without artificiality. 

It is the seat of effort because it releases energetic activities. 

It is the seat of high resolve because its insight is superior. 

It is the seat of the great spirit of enlightenment because it does not neglect anything.

It is the seat of generosity because it has no expectation of reward. 

It is the seat of morality because it fulfills all commitments. 

It is the seat of tolerance because it is free of anger toward any living being. 

It is the seat of effort because it does not turn back. 

It is the seat of meditation because it generates fitness of mind. 

It is the seat of wisdom because it sees everything directly.

It is the seat of love because it is equal to all living beings. 

It is the seat of compassion because it tolerates all injuries. 

It is the seat of joy because it is joyfully devoted to the bliss of the Dharma. 

It is the seat of equanimity because it abandons affection and aversion.

It is the seat of paranormal perception because it has the six superknowledges. 

It is the seat of liberation because it does not intellectualise. 

It is the seat of liberative technique because it develops living beings. 

It is the seat of the means of unification because it brings together living beings. 

It is the seat of learning because it makes practice of the essence. 

It is the seat of decisiveness because of its precise discrimination. 

It is the seat of the aids to enlightenment because it eliminates the duality of the compounded and the uncompounded. 

It is the seat of truth because it does not deceive anyone.

It is the seat of interdependent origination because it proceeds from the exhaustion of ignorance to the exhaustion of old age and death. 

It is the seat of eradication of all passions because it is perfectly enlightened about the nature of reality. 

It is the seat of all living beings because all living beings are without intrinsic identity. 

It is the seat of all things because it is perfectly enlightened with regard to voidness.

It is the seat of the conquest of all devils because it never flinches. 

It is the seat of the triple world because it is free of involvement. 

It is the seat of the heroism that sounds the lion's roar, because it is free of fear and trembling.

It is the seat of the strengths, the fearlessnesses, and all the special qualities of the Buddha, because it is irreproachable in all respects. 

It is the seat of the three knowledges because in it no passions remain.

It is the seat of instantaneous, total understanding of all things because it realises fully the gnosis of omniscience.'

— Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra