Indra's Net
Gopā answers eleven paradoxes at once with a single named practice — Indra's Net, the Light of Universal Wisdom — and names ten dharmas that bring it to full completion, from relying on a good spiritual friend to severing every form of birth-and-death through the power of wisdom.
Indra's Net
Gopā praises the very form of Good-Wealth's question before answering it, and names the practice all eleven paradoxes turn out to belong to.
時,瞿波女告善財言:「善哉善哉!善男子!汝今能問菩薩摩訶薩如是行法,修習普賢諸行願者能如是問。諦聽諦聽!善思念之!我當承佛神力,為汝宣說。「善男子!若諸菩薩成就十法,則能圓滿因陀羅網普智光明菩薩之行。何等為十?所謂:依善知識故,得廣大勝解故,得清淨欲樂故,集一切福智故,於諸佛所聽聞法故,心恒不捨三世佛故,同於一切菩薩行故,一切如來所護念故,大悲妙願皆清淨故,能以智力普斷一切諸生死故。是為十。若諸菩薩成就此法,則能圓滿因陀羅網普智光明菩薩之行。
At that time, Gopā said to Good-Wealth: "Excellent, excellent! Good son, that you are now able to ask about such a practice of the great bodhisattva-mahāsattvas is exactly how one who cultivates Samantabhadra's every practice and vow ought to ask. Listen carefully, listen carefully, and consider it well! I shall, sustained by the Buddha's own spiritual power, now expound it for you. "Good son, if a bodhisattva accomplishes ten dharmas, he is thereby able to bring to perfect fulfilment the bodhisattva practice of Indra's Net, the Light of Universal Wisdom. What are these ten? They are: because he relies upon a good spiritual friend; because he attains vast and expansive superior understanding; because he attains pure and undefiled aspiration; because he gathers every kind of merit and wisdom; because he hears the dharma at the place of every buddha; because his mind forever never abandons the buddhas of the three times; because he shares in every bodhisattva's own practice; because he is held in the mindful protection of every tathāgata; because his great compassion and wondrous vows are entirely pure; and because he is able, through the power of wisdom, to universally sever every form of birth-and-death. These are the ten. If a bodhisattva accomplishes these dharmas, he is thereby able to bring to perfect fulfilment the bodhisattva practice of Indra's Net, the Light of Universal Wisdom.
因陀羅網普智光明菩薩之行 — the bodhisattva practice of Indra's Net, the Light of Universal Wisdom. Gopā never answers Good-Wealth's eleven paradoxes one by one; she answers them all at once, with the name of a single practice, framed by a sentence that opens and closes this passage nearly word for word — the same claim stated once as a promise and once, ten items later, as a confirmed result.
Part 1201 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-five. Part 1202 continues with a second list of ten — how a bodhisattva serves a good spiritual friend.