The Medicine Called Well-Seen
Ten kinds of adornment — of body, speech, mind, land, light, assembly, spiritual power, teaching, the ground of nirvāṇa, and skillful speech — accompany a bodhisattva moment by moment, and the chapter offers one of its most vivid similes yet: a medicine so potent that the mere sight of it removes every poison.
Ten Kinds of Adornment, Moment by Moment
「菩薩如是修習善法，念念具足十種莊嚴。何者為十？所謂：身莊嚴，隨諸眾生所應調伏而為示現故；語莊嚴，斷一切疑，皆令歡喜故；心莊嚴，於一念中入諸三昧故；佛剎莊嚴，一切清淨，離諸煩惱故；光明莊嚴，放無邊光普照眾生故；眾會莊嚴，普攝眾會，皆令歡喜故；神通莊嚴，隨眾生心，自在示現故；正教莊嚴，能攝一切聰慧人故；涅槃地莊嚴，於一處成道，周遍十方悉無餘故；巧說莊嚴，隨處、隨時、隨其根器為說法故。菩薩成就如是莊嚴，於念念中，身、語、意業皆無空過，悉以迴向一切智門。若有眾生見此菩薩，當知亦復無空過者，以必當成阿耨多羅三藐三菩提故。若聞名，若供養，若同住，若憶念，若隨出家，若聞說法，若隨喜善根，若遙生欽敬，乃至稱揚、讚歎名字，皆當得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。佛子！譬如有藥，名為：善見，眾生見者，眾毒悉除；菩薩如是成就此法，眾生若見，諸煩惱毒皆得除滅，善法增長。」
"The bodhisattva, cultivating wholesome dharmas in this way, moment after moment, is fully endowed with ten kinds of adornment. What are the ten? Namely: the adornment of the body, because they manifest in accordance with however each living being should be tamed; the adornment of speech, because they cut off every doubt and cause everyone to rejoice; the adornment of the mind, because in a single thought they enter every samādhi; the adornment of buddha-lands, because every one is entirely pure, free of every affliction; the adornment of light, because they emit boundless light, universally illumining living beings; the adornment of the assembly, because they universally gather the assembly, causing everyone to rejoice; the adornment of spiritual power, because they manifest freely in accordance with living beings' own minds; the adornment of the true teaching, because it is able to gather in every intelligent and wise person; the adornment of the ground of nirvāṇa, because accomplishing the path in a single place is, without exception, accomplishing it throughout the ten directions; and the adornment of skillful speech, because they teach the Dharma in accordance with the place, the time, and each one's own faculties. The bodhisattva, having accomplished such adornment as this, moment after moment, lets no action of body, speech, or mind pass by in vain, dedicating all of it entirely toward the gateway of all-knowing wisdom. If there is a living being who sees this bodhisattva, know that this too passes by nothing in vain, for they are certain to attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening. Whether hearing their name, or making offerings to them, or dwelling together with them, or holding them in mind, or going forth from home following them, or hearing them teach the Dharma, or rejoicing in their wholesome roots, or, from afar, giving rise to admiration and reverence, or even simply extolling and praising their name — all of these will attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening. Son of the Buddha! It is just as there is a medicine named Well-Seen: living beings who see it have every poison entirely removed. The bodhisattva, having accomplished this Dharma in just this way, causes every living being who sees them to have every poison of affliction entirely removed and destroyed, and their wholesome dharmas to increase."
The medicine called Well-Seen (善見) is a well-known figure in Buddhist literature — a substance whose mere sight heals, without any active application at all. Its force here is cumulative: the passage has just listed nine different ways of encountering a bodhisattva that all lead to the same result, hearing their name, dwelling with them, even hearing of them from far away — and the medicine simile crystallizes what all nine share. Presence itself, rightly adorned, is already the teaching.
Part 112 Complete
This closes Part 112. Chapter 18 continues in Part 113.