A Dharma Matched to Every Desire
Once each being's own material need is met, Enlightened Wisdom does not stop there — food becomes an occasion to teach the practice of merit, drink becomes a lesson in releasing attachment, and clothing becomes the garment of conscience itself, each ordinary object turned into its own doorway to the Great Vehicle.
Food, Drink, Flavor, Vehicle, and Clothing
Each satisfied desire becomes the exact shape of its own teaching — those fed receive eight practices built around merit and unyielding strength, those given drink learn to release attachment, those clothed receive the garment of conscience, and every one of them departs having heard a dharma fitted precisely to what first brought them there.
所謂：為得美食而充足者，與說種種集福德行、離貧窮行、知諸法行、成就法喜禪悅食行、修習具足諸相好行、增長成就難屈伏行、善能了達無上食行、成就無盡大威德力降魔怨行；為得好飲而充足者，與其說法，令於生死，捨離愛著，入佛法味；為得種種諸上味者，與其說法，皆令獲得諸佛如來上味之相；為得車乘而充足者，與其宣說種種法門，皆令得載摩訶衍乘；為得衣服而充足者，與其說法，令得清淨慚愧之衣，乃至如來清淨妙色。如是一切靡不周贍，然後悉為如應說法。既聞法已，還歸本處。
Namely: for those satisfied by obtaining delicious food, he taught them the practice of accumulating merit, the practice of leaving poverty behind, the practice of knowing every dharma, the practice of accomplishing the food of dharma-joy and meditative delight, the practice of cultivating and perfecting every excellent mark, the practice of growing and accomplishing what cannot be subdued, the practice of skillfully understanding the unsurpassed food, and the practice of accomplishing the inexhaustible great power of majesty that subdues Māra's own enmity; for those satisfied by obtaining fine drink, he taught them the dharma, causing them, amid birth and death, to abandon and leave behind love and attachment, and enter the flavor of the buddha-dharma; for those who obtained every kind of supreme flavor, he taught them the dharma, causing all of them to attain the mark of every buddha and tathāgata's own supreme flavor; for those satisfied by obtaining carriages and vehicles, he proclaimed for them every kind of dharma-gate, causing all of them to be carried by the Great Vehicle; and for those satisfied by obtaining clothing, he taught them the dharma, causing them to attain the pure garment of conscience and shame, even up to the tathāgata's own pure and wondrous form. In this way, there was nothing that was not universally provided for, and afterward, he taught the dharma to all of them exactly as was fitting. Having heard the dharma, they returned to their own original places.
令得清淨慚愧之衣 — causing them to attain the pure garment of conscience and shame. Among everything given here, clothing alone receives a teaching that turns the object itself inside out — an ordinary garment becomes the occasion for an entirely inward kind of covering, one made of conscience rather than cloth.
Part 1007 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-five. Part 1008 turns to Enlightened Wisdom's own confession of limitation, comparing the great bodhisattvas to hands of jewels that rain down every provision across the ten directions, before closing fascicle sixty-five with the naming of a fifteenth teacher.