Difficulties on the Bodhisattva Path

In the Gandavyuha Sutra ("Entry into the Realm of Reality," Thomas Cleary, tr.) the young Seeker named Sudhana consults with 52 bodhisattvas before mastering the Path. The 14th bodhisattva, Vidvan, tells him the following:

"It is good that you have aroused the aspiration for supreme perfect enlightenment. Rare are those who aspire to supreme perfect enlightenment, and rare are those who, having aspired to enlightenment, are tireless in seeking the practices of bodhisattvas by meeting spiritual benefactors, who do not weary of going to spiritual benefactors, who are not pained by attendance on spiritual benefactors, who are not depressed by the difficulty of approaching spiritual benefactors, who do not give up seeking spiritual benefactors, who do not turn away from the sight of the countenance of spiritual benefactors, who do not get discouraged in the path taught by spiritual benefactors, who do not tire in the service of spiritual benefactors."