Ten Kinds of Undisturbed Dedication
The bodhisattva makes offerings of every kind of wondrous flower, fragrance, garland, canopy, banner, robe, and lamp to every Tathāgata, and just the same to every buddha image, stūpa, and shrine. This wholesome root is then dedicated through ten distinct named kinds — the undisturbed dedication, the single-minded dedication, the unmoving dedication, the tranquil dedication, and others — each naming a different quality of mind brought to the act of dedicating.
Offerings to Both the Living Buddha and His Image
The passage treats offerings to a living buddha and offerings to a buddha's image or stūpa with the identical formula — "just as with this" — refusing to rank a present buddha's own person above his representation or memorial. Ten names for the dedication follow, moving from disposition (undisturbed, single-minded) through relationship to others (reverent) to a series of increasingly subtle refusals: not moving, not abiding, not relying, free of the very notion of a living being, free of agitation, and finally simply tranquil.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以其所種一切善根願，於如是諸如來所，以眾妙華，及眾妙香、鬘蓋、幢幡、衣服、燈燭，及餘一切諸莊嚴具以為供養；若佛形像，若佛塔廟，悉亦如是。以此善根如是迴向，所謂：不亂迴向、一心迴向、自意迴向、尊敬迴向、不動迴向、無住迴向、無依迴向、無眾生心迴向、無躁競心迴向、寂靜心迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva, with the vow of every wholesome root they have planted, makes offerings at the place of every such Tathāgata with every kind of wondrous flower, and every kind of wondrous fragrance, garland, canopy, banner, pennant, robe, lamp, and candle, and every other kind of ornament; whether it be a Buddha image or a Buddha stūpa and shrine, they make offerings in just this same way. They dedicate this very wholesome root in just this way, namely: the undisturbed dedication, the single-minded dedication, the dedication of one's own intention, the reverent dedication, the unmoving dedication, the non-abiding dedication, the unreliant dedication, the dedication free of the notion of a living being, the dedication free of an agitated and contentious mind, and the dedication of a tranquil mind.
The ten names move from a positive quality of mind toward increasingly precise negations, ending on "the dedication of a tranquil mind" — a name that, after nine names built from denial, states its quality directly and positively once more. The sequence reads almost like a practice instruction: settle the mind, then let go of one attachment after another, and what remains at the end is simply stillness.
Part 246 Complete
This closes Part 246. Chapter 25 continues in Part 247 as the bodhisattva contemplates buddhas of the past, future, and present dwelling for the entirety of future time, and begins an extensive litany of fragrant offerings — countless fragrant canopies, banners, pennants, and palaces — made to every one of them.