What Is Grasped Cannot Be Grasped
The tenth and final hymn closes the chapter on a note of radical restraint: a wish-fulfilling jewel that manifests every color while itself having none, a voice that is not the Tathāgata yet cannot be separated from him, and a final claim that the buddhas have no dharma at all to speak.
Knowledge Grove Bodhisattva's Hymn
爾時，智林菩薩承佛威力，普觀十方而說頌言：
At that time, relying upon the Buddha's own awesome power, Knowledge Grove Bodhisattva universally surveyed the ten directions and then spoke a verse, saying:
「所取不可取，所見不可見，
所聞不可聞，一心不思議。
有量及無量，二俱不可取，
若有人欲取，畢竟無所得。
不應說而說，是為自欺誑，
己事不成就，不令眾歡喜。
有欲讚如來，無邊妙色身，
盡於無數劫，無能盡稱述。
譬如隨意珠，能現一切色，
無色而現色，諸佛亦如是。
又如淨虛空，非色不可見，
雖現一切色，無能見空者。
諸佛亦如是，普現無量色，
非心所行處，一切莫能覩。
雖聞如來聲，音聲非如來，
亦不離於聲，能知正等覺。
菩提無來去，離一切分別，
云何於是中，自言能得見？
諸佛無有法，佛於何有說？
但隨其自心，謂說如是法。」
"What is grasped cannot be grasped, what is seen cannot be seen, what is heard cannot be heard — the one mind is inconceivable. The measured and the immeasurable, neither of these two can be grasped; if there is a person who wishes to grasp them, in the end, nothing at all is attained.
To speak of what should not be spoken is to deceive and delude oneself; one's own task is not accomplished, and the assembly is not caused to rejoice. Whoever wishes to praise the Tathāgata's own boundless, wondrous form-body, though they exhaust countless kalpas in doing so, could never fully extol and describe it.
Just as a wish-fulfilling jewel is able to manifest every color, itself without color and yet manifesting color, so too are all the buddhas. And just as pure empty space, being without form, cannot be seen, though it manifests every form, there is no one at all who sees empty space itself.
All the buddhas, too, are just the same, universally manifesting immeasurable forms; this is not a place the mind can reach, and no one at all is able to behold it. Though one may hear the Tathāgata's own voice, that sound is not the Tathāgata, and yet one is never able to know the Fully and Perfectly Awakened One apart from that very sound either.
Bodhi has no coming and no going, free from every discrimination — how, then, within it, could one claim for oneself to be able to attain sight of it? The buddhas have no dharma at all — where, then, could a buddha have anything to say? It is only in accordance with each one's own mind that it is said such a Dharma has been spoken."
This final hymn deliberately unsettles everything the chapter's nine previous hymns have built, including its own most famous line about the mind painting every world. Here, even the very notion of "seeing" the Buddha, hearing his voice as identical with him, or claiming to have understood bodhi, is set aside — the buddhas, the hymn insists, have no dharma at all to speak; whatever is heard as teaching arises only in accordance with each listener's own mind. The chapter closes without any earthquake or witnessing-buddha formula this time, ending simply on this note of restraint.
Chapter 20 Complete
This closes chapter twenty, "Hymns of Praise in the Yāma Palace" (夜摩宮中偈讚品第二十). Fascicle nineteen continues in Part 129 with the opening of chapter twenty-one, "The Ten Practices" (十行品第二十一).