The Whole Ocean of Causes and Conditions
Gopā's account turns inward one more time, recalling the tathāgata's own past causes and conditions across measureless kalpas, before closing this whole liberation-gate with a single rationale — a mind able to know beings, śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, bodhisattvas, and buddhas all at once.
The Whole Ocean of Causes and Conditions
The second liberation-gate closes by turning back to the tathāgata's own history, and then to a single sentence explaining why any of what Gopā has just described is possible at all.
「亦念如來往昔所有諸因緣海。所謂：修集一切諸乘方便，無量劫中，住菩薩行，淨佛國土，教化眾生，承事諸佛，造立住處，聽受說法，獲諸三昧，得諸自在；修檀波羅蜜入佛功德海，持戒苦行，具足諸忍，勇猛精進，成就諸禪，圓滿淨慧；於一切處示現受生，普賢行願悉皆清淨，普入諸剎，普淨佛土，普入一切如來智海，普攝一切諸佛菩提，得於如來大智光明，證於諸佛一切智性，成等正覺，轉妙法輪；及其所有道場眾會，其眾會中一切眾生，往世已來所種善根，從初發心，成熟眾生，修行方便，念念增長，獲諸三昧神通解脫。如是一切，我悉了知。何以故？我此解脫，能知一切眾生心行、一切眾生修行善根、一切眾生雜染清淨、一切眾生種種差別、一切聲聞諸三昧門、一切緣覺寂靜三昧神通解脫、一切菩薩一切如來解脫光明，皆了知故。」
"I also call to mind the whole ocean of causes and conditions belonging to the tathāgata in ages past. That is to say: his cultivating and gathering every skilful means of every vehicle; throughout measureless kalpas, his abiding in the bodhisattva's own practices, purifying buddha-lands, teaching and transforming beings, serving every buddha, establishing dwelling-places, hearing and receiving the dharma expounded, attaining every samādhi, and gaining every sovereign power; his cultivating the pāramitā of giving and entering the ocean of a buddha's own merit, upholding the precepts and practising austerities, being fully endowed with every forbearance, being courageous and diligent, accomplishing every dhyāna, and perfecting pure wisdom; his manifesting birth in every place, his practices and vows of Samantabhadra entirely pure, his universally entering every land, universally purifying every buddha-land, universally entering the ocean of wisdom of every tathāgata, universally gathering the bodhi of every buddha, attaining the great wisdom-light of the tathāgata, and realising the all-knowing nature of every buddha; his accomplishing perfect and complete awakening, and turning the wondrous wheel of dharma; and every one of the assemblies at his awakening-site, and how every being within those assemblies, ever since ages past, had planted wholesome roots, from their very first giving rise to the resolve, ripening beings, cultivating skilful means, growing in thought after thought, and attaining every samādhi, spiritual power, and liberation. All of this, I entirely and fully know. "Why is this? Because this liberation of mine is able to know every being's mental conduct, every being's cultivation of wholesome roots, every being's defilement and purity, every being's every kind of difference, every gate of samādhi of every śrāvaka, every quiescent samādhi, spiritual power, and liberation of every pratyekabuddha, and the liberation-light of every bodhisattva and every tathāgata — all of this, I fully know."
能知一切眾生心行⋯⋯一切聲聞⋯⋯一切緣覺⋯⋯一切菩薩一切如來 — able to know every being's mental conduct⋯⋯every śrāvaka⋯⋯every pratyekabuddha⋯⋯every bodhisattva and every tathāgata. The final rationale runs through the same order this whole second liberation-gate has followed since it began — beings first, then the three vehicles in ascending order — and closes on that order one last time, as if to confirm that the entire account, however vast, has never actually left this single structure.
Part 1207 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-five. Part 1208 opens Good-Wealth's next question and Gopā's answer — a story reaching back to an ancient world and a crown prince named Awesome Virtue Lord.