True Dedication, Not Mere Words
The bodhisattva's dedication is shown arising from ten distinct qualities of heart — a profound mind, a joyful mind, a pure mind, a gentle mind, a compassionate mind, and others — and is declared to be a universal dedication carried out for living beings in true reality, not merely spoken in words. Two extended vows follow, wishing that every being attain purity, indestructible merit, resolute wisdom, and ultimately the Buddha's own bliss.
Not But in Words
The passage draws a distinction that governs the entire teaching on dedication: it is possible to speak the words of dedicating merit to all beings without the dedication being real. What makes it real, the text insists, is that it proceeds from an entire set of qualities of heart — profound, joyful, pure, supreme, gentle, loving-kind, compassionate, protective, beneficial, and peaceful — carried out universally for living beings in actual fact, "not but in words" alone.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以諸佛法而為所緣，起廣大心、不退轉心，無量劫中修集希有難得心寶，與一切諸佛悉皆平等。菩薩如是觀諸善根，信心清淨，大悲堅固，以甚深心、歡喜心、清淨心，最勝心、柔軟心、慈悲心、憐愍心、攝護心、利益心、安樂心，普為眾生真實迴向，非但口言。佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以諸善根迴向之時，作是念言：『以我善根，願一切趣生、一切眾生，皆得清淨；功德圓滿，不可沮壞，無有窮盡；常得尊重，正念不忘；獲決定慧，具無量智；身、口、意業，一切功德，圓滿莊嚴。』
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva takes the Dharma of every buddha as their own object of attention, giving rise to a vast and expansive mind, a mind that never regresses, cultivating and gathering, throughout immeasurable kalpas, a rare and difficult-to-obtain jewel of the mind, becoming entirely equal to every buddha. The bodhisattva, observing every wholesome root in just this way, with a mind of pure faith and firm great compassion, through a profound mind, a joyful mind, a pure mind, a supreme mind, a gentle mind, a loving-kind and compassionate mind, a mind of pity, a mind that gathers and protects, a mind of benefit, and a mind of peace and comfort, universally dedicates for the sake of living beings in true reality, not merely in words. Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates every wholesome root, they give rise to this thought, saying: 'Through my own wholesome roots, may every being in every destiny, every living being, all attain purity; may their merit be perfectly complete, indestructible, and inexhaustible; may they forever be honored and respected, their right mindfulness never forgotten; may they obtain resolute wisdom, possessed of immeasurable wisdom; may their bodily, verbal, and mental karma, every merit, be perfectly complete and adorned.'
又作是念：『以此善根，令一切眾生承事供養一切諸佛，無空過者；於諸佛所，淨信不壞；聽聞正法，斷諸疑惑，憶持不忘，如說修行；於如來所，起恭敬心，身業清淨，安住無量廣大善根；永離貧窮，七財滿足；於諸佛所，常隨修學，成就無量勝妙善根，平等悟解，住一切智，以無礙眼等視眾生；眾相嚴身，無有玷缺；言音淨妙，功德圓滿，諸根調伏，十力成就，善心滿足，無所依住。令一切眾生普得佛樂，得無量住，住佛所住。』
And again they give rise to this thought: 'Through this wholesome root, may every living being serve and make offerings to every buddha, with none passing by in vain; may their pure faith toward every buddha remain unbroken; may they listen to the true Dharma, cut off every doubt and confusion, remember and uphold it without forgetting, and practice according to what is taught; may they give rise to a reverent mind toward every Tathāgata, their bodily karma pure, abiding securely in immeasurable and vast wholesome roots; may they forever leave behind poverty, the seven kinds of spiritual wealth fully satisfied; may they forever follow and study at the place of every buddha, accomplishing immeasurable excellent and wondrous wholesome roots, understanding equally, abiding in all-knowing wisdom, and regarding living beings equally with an unhindered eye; may every mark adorning their body be without blemish or defect; may their speech and voice be pure and wondrous, their merit perfectly complete, their faculties tamed, the ten powers accomplished, their wholesome mind fully satisfied, abiding nowhere at all. May every living being universally attain the Buddha's own bliss, obtain immeasurable abodes, and abide where the Buddha abides.'
The "seven kinds of spiritual wealth" named here are a standard Buddhist list distinct from the seven material treasures of a wheel-turning king that appear elsewhere in this sūtra — faith, moral discipline, shame, remorse, learning, giving, and wisdom — the inner resources whose lack constitutes a poverty no amount of material wealth can address. Naming them inside a vow for "every living being" quietly widens the dedication's scope from material to spiritual welfare without pausing to announce the shift.
Part 214 Complete
This closes Part 214. Chapter 25 continues in Part 215 with the bodhisattva's vow to bear every kind of suffering in place of living beings trapped in the evil destinies, so that they may be liberated.