Part 1163 of the collection · Fascicle 73 of 80 · 入法界品第三十九之十四 · T279

A World That Trembles

The list that began in Part 1162 runs on through forty-two more items — prophecy, dhāraṇī, the profound dharma like empty space — before closing on a single, startling claim: that she shares, with every bodhisattva, the power to shake every land in the ten directions at once.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 1163 — fascicle 73 continues Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

Fourteen More — Non-Retrogression to Delight

The list resumes exactly where it left off, moving from the unshakeable to the barely visible — acceptance of the unborn, a wisdom too subtle to name, a delight that simply follows what beings already want.

Chinese Source

同不退,普入十方無障礙故;同破闇,得一切佛成菩提智大光明故;同無生忍,入一切佛眾會海故;同遍一切諸佛剎網,恭敬供養不可說剎諸如來故;同智證,了知彼彼法門海故;同修行,順行一切諸法門故;同希求,於清淨法深樂欲故;同清淨,集佛功德而以莊嚴身、口、意故;同妙意,於一切法智明了故;同精進,普集一切諸善根故;同淨行,成滿一切菩薩行故;同無礙,了一切法皆無相故;同善巧,於諸法中智自在故;同隨樂,隨眾生心現境界故;

Ru-Yi Translation

The same non-retrogression, because she universally enters the ten directions without obstruction; the same breaking of darkness, because she has attained the great light of the wisdom by which every buddha accomplishes bodhi; the same acceptance of the unborn, because she enters the ocean of every buddha's assembly; the same pervading of every net of buddha-lands, because she reverently makes offerings to every tathāgata in lands beyond telling; the same realisation of wisdom, because she fully knows the ocean of dharma-gates, each and every one; the same cultivation, because she practises in accord with every dharma-gate; the same yearning, because she deeply delights in and desires the pure dharma; the same purity, because she gathers the buddha's own merit to adorn her body, speech, and mind; the same wondrous intention, because her wisdom is clear and bright regarding every dharma; the same vigour, because she universally gathers every wholesome root; the same pure conduct, because she brings every bodhisattva practice to fulfilment; the same freedom from obstruction, because she understands that every dharma is without any mark; the same skilfulness, because her wisdom moves freely among every dharma; the same according with delight, because she manifests her domain according to the minds of beings;

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

同隨樂,隨眾生心現境界故 — the same according with delight, because she manifests her domain according to the minds of beings. This fourteen closes on the same principle Part 1145's night-spirit built her whole opening teaching on — a form fitted to what a being already wants. The word here, 隨樂, according with delight, is not the same word that teacher used, but the shape of the claim is identical: nothing is imposed from outside, everything answers what the beholder already brings.

Fourteen More — Prophecy and Pure Faith

The list turns toward the more formal markers of a bodhisattva's advancement — the grounds entered, the prophecy received, the samādhi that opens in a single instant.

Chinese Source

同方便,善習一切所應習故;同護念,得一切佛所護念故;同入地,得入一切菩薩地故;同所住,安住一切菩薩位故;同記別,一切諸佛授其記故;同三昧,一剎那中普入一切三昧門故;同建立,示現種種諸佛事故;同正念,正念一切境界門故;同修行,盡未來劫修行一切菩薩行故;同淨信,於諸如來無量智慧極欣樂故;同捨離,滅除一切諸障礙故;同不退智,與諸如來智慧等故;同受生,應現成熟諸眾生故;同所住,住一切智方便門故;

Ru-Yi Translation

The same skilful means, because she skilfully practises everything that should be practised; the same guarding mindfulness, because she is guarded and held in mind by every buddha; the same entry into the grounds, because she has entered every bodhisattva ground; the same abiding, because she abides securely in every bodhisattva station; the same prophecy, because every buddha has bestowed a prophecy upon her; the same samādhi, because in a single instant she universally enters every gate of samādhi; the same establishing, because she manifests every kind of buddha-deed; the same right mindfulness, because she holds every gate of domain in right mindfulness; the same cultivation, because to the very end of future kalpas she cultivates every bodhisattva practice; the same pure faith, because she takes the utmost delight in the measureless wisdom of every tathāgata; the same relinquishing, because she extinguishes every hindrance; the same non-retrogressing wisdom, because it is equal to the wisdom of every tathāgata; the same taking of birth, because she manifests in response to bring every being to ripeness; the same abiding, because she abides in the gate of skilful means for all-knowing wisdom;

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

同修行⋯⋯同所住 — the same cultivation⋯⋯the same abiding. Checked directly against this stretch of the source alone, both labels recur within these same fourteen items — 修行 appears once here and once more nine items later, 所住 the same — each time paired with a different justifying clause. Across eighty-four items and two Parts, this list does not appear to be tracking which words it has already used; it reaches for whatever word fits the thought in front of it, category repeated or not.

The Final Fourteen — a World That Trembles

The list runs to its close through the most hidden qualities yet named — the secret dharma, the profound dharma like empty space — before ending on something anyone standing nearby could actually feel.

Chinese Source

同境界,於法界境得自在故;同無依,永斷一切所依心故;同說法,已入諸法平等智故;同勤修,常蒙諸佛所護念故;同神通,開悟眾生令修一切菩薩行故;同神力,能入十方世界海故;同陀羅尼,普照一切總持海故;同祕密法,了知一切修多羅中妙法門故;同甚深法,解一切法如虛空故;同光明,普照一切諸世界故;同欣樂,隨眾生心而為開示令歡喜故;同震動,為諸眾生現神通力普動十方一切剎故;同不虛,見聞憶念皆悉令其心調伏故;同出離,滿足一切諸大願海,成就如來十力智故。

Ru-Yi Translation

The same domain, because she has gained sovereign freedom over the domain of the dharma-realm; the same freedom from reliance, because she has forever cut off every mind that relies on anything; the same expounding of dharma, because she has entered the wisdom of the equality of every dharma; the same diligent cultivation, because she is constantly held in mind and guarded by every buddha; the same spiritual power, because she awakens beings and causes them to cultivate every bodhisattva practice; the same spiritual might, because she is able to enter the ocean of worlds in the ten directions; the same dhāraṇī, because she universally illuminates the ocean of every dhāraṇī; the same secret dharma, because she fully knows the wondrous dharma-gates within every sūtra; the same profound dharma, because she understands that every dharma is like empty space; the same light, because she universally illuminates every world; the same delight, because she opens and reveals the dharma according to the minds of beings, causing them to rejoice; the same trembling, because for the sake of beings she manifests spiritual power that universally shakes every land in the ten directions; the same never being in vain, because seeing her, hearing her, or calling her to mind all cause the mind to be tamed; the same departure from the world, because she fulfils the whole ocean of every great vow, and accomplishes the wisdom of the tathāgata's ten powers.

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

同震動,為諸眾生現神通力普動十方一切剎故 — the same trembling, because for the sake of beings she manifests spiritual power that universally shakes every land in the ten directions. Eighty-three items into this list, the qualities have been almost entirely invisible — light, faith, freedom, wisdom equal to space. This second-to-last item breaks that pattern: a trembling is something a body standing in the assembly could physically feel, the one item in the whole eighty-four that would register as an event rather than an attainment.

Part 1163 Complete

This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-three. Part 1164 turns from this catalogue of eighty-four shared practices to what Good-Wealth does with them — a full prostration, and a verse of his own in praise of the good spiritual friend who has given him so much to hold in common.