One Sound, Understood by Every Kind

佛演一妙音，隨類皆令解 — the Buddha utters a single wondrous sound, and every kind of being is made to understand it. 隨類, according to kind, is the whole of the claim: the sound is not translated into many, and is not multiplied. One utterance is emitted, and each kind of hearer receives it in its own kind. Ten parts ago the same teacher's prose said a bodhisattva's voice is 同, the same as, the whole ocean of what beings say.

佛昔修諸行，已曾攝受我 — the Buddha in the past cultivated all the practices, and had already taken me up then. The stanza puts her own presence here at the end of someone else's long labour. It is the same recognition she has been describing all along about beings — 知其往昔曾為善友之所攝受 — turned back on herself.

非我所能知 … 非我所能知 — repeated at the end of the eleventh and twelfth stanzas. The prose confession earlier in this fascicle was a single rhetorical question; in verse the same admission is simply stated twice, flatly, once about how many buddhas there are and once about a pore that holds every bodhisattva.

見善知識，令心不散亂 — seeing a good spiritual friend, one's mind is kept from scattering. Of the seven results, this is the smallest and it comes first; the list then rises to breaking the mountain of obstruction and beholding the oceans of buddhas. The sūtra has Good-Wealth reason upward from an effect he can actually verify.

善知識者，難見難遇 — a good spiritual friend is hard to see and hard to meet. The same two phrases the city spirit Great God used of bodhisattvas in Part 1070, 難可得見，難可得聞. Here Good-Wealth says it while walking between two teachers who are a few paces apart, which is the joke the sūtra does not make: the rarity is not a matter of distance.

時，喜目神加善財童子 — at that time the spirit Joyful Eye sustained Good-Wealth. 加 is the verb used throughout this sūtra for a buddha's sustaining power reaching a speaker before they speak. Here a night-spirit applies it to a boy who has not yet reached her, and what she transmits is an understanding of what teachers are for. He is being taught about teachers by a teacher, before the lesson formally begins.

能不離本處遍至十方 — can, without leaving one's own place, reach everywhere throughout the ten directions. The tenth and last item, and it directly follows the ninth, 能得速疾力普詣諸剎, the power of swiftness to go to every buddha-land. The pair restates the whole argument between Right Course's swiftness and the bodhisattvas already spread across the dharma-realm in Part 1069 — and here both are listed as fruits of the same thing, keeping company with a good teacher.