Part 1035 of the collection · Fascicle 66 of 80, closing · 入法界品第三十九之七 · T279

Would You Like to See?

The fruit of Immovable's vajra-firm mind is a life of constant nearness — to buddhas, to bodhisattvas, to their vows and practices — and rather than simply describing what this produced, she offers Good-Wealth something no other teacher in this pilgrimage has framed as a direct question: would he like to see it for himself?

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 1035 — would you like to see? Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

Constantly Near, Constantly Hearing

Where the previous Part listed what Immovable never once did, this one lists what she has constantly done since — a life saturated with the presence of buddhas, bodhisattvas, and their own teachings, down to the causes that give rise to the entire realm of beings.

Chinese Source

「善男子!我從是來,常見諸佛,常見菩薩,常見真實善知識,常聞諸佛願,常聞菩薩行,常聞菩薩波羅蜜門,常聞菩薩地智光明門,常聞菩薩無盡藏門,常聞入無邊世界網門,常聞出生無邊眾生界因門,常以清淨智慧光明除滅一切眾生煩惱,常以智慧生長一切眾生善根,常隨一切眾生所樂示現其身,常以清淨上妙言音開悟法界一切眾生。

Ru-Yi Translation

"Good son, from that time on, I have constantly beheld every buddha, constantly beheld every bodhisattva, and constantly beheld true good spiritual friends; I have constantly heard every buddha's own vows, constantly heard the bodhisattva practices, constantly heard the bodhisattva's own gates of pāramitā, constantly heard the bodhisattva's own gates of the light of the grounds' wisdom, constantly heard the bodhisattva's own gates of the inexhaustible treasury, constantly heard the gate of entering the net of boundless worlds, and constantly heard the gate of the causes that give rise to the boundless realm of beings; I have constantly used the light of pure wisdom to extinguish every affliction of every being, constantly used wisdom to grow every being's own wholesome roots, constantly manifested my own body according to what each being desires, and constantly used pure and supreme speech to awaken every being throughout the dharma-realm.

An Offer, Rather Than a Description

Instead of simply naming her next liberation-gate and moving on, Immovable pauses to ask Good-Wealth directly whether he wants to see it — and his answer is immediate.

Chinese Source

「善男子!我得菩薩求一切法無厭足莊嚴門,我得一切法平等地總持門,現不思議自在神變。汝欲見不?」善財言:「唯!我心願見。」

Ru-Yi Translation

"Good son, I have attained the bodhisattva's own gate of adornment of seeking every dharma without ever being satiated, and I have attained the gate of the dhāraṇī of the ground of equality of every dharma, manifesting inconceivable sovereign spiritual transformations. Would you like to see them?" Good-Wealth said: "Yes! My heart wishes to see them."

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

汝欲見不? — would you like to see them? Very few teachers in this pilgrimage pause to ask Good-Wealth's own consent before demonstrating their liberation — most simply act, and he witnesses. Immovable's small question restores a kind of ordinary courtesy to an otherwise cosmic exchange.

Part 1035 Complete

This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-six. Part 1036 shows Immovable's own demonstration in full, as she enters ten thousand samādhi-gates at once and the entire universe answers with a sixfold trembling.