An Unrestricted Assembly for All
The king-bodhisattva's generosity reaches its final expression: relinquishing kingship, cities, palaces, wife and children to whoever asks, and staging an unrestricted almsgiving assembly open to every kind of being — wise or foolish, fair or unsightly, human or non-human — each given according to their own distinct need until fully satisfied. Six acts of skillful gathering then close this stage of the dedication, each one according with and firming every wholesome root.
Giving Without Restriction
"Unrestricted" (無遮) is the passage's own word for the assembly it describes — not almsgiving limited to the worthy or the well-behaved, but open equally to wise and foolish, fair and unsightly, human and non-human alike, each receiving according to their own distinct need. The passage then closes by naming what all this giving has been gathering all along: not just possessions given away, but form and the four remaining aggregates themselves, kingship, retinue, and the very act of giving — each one, in turn, firming a wholesome root.
恒以正法化導群生，令修善行、捨離諸惡。若見眾生損敗他形，慈心救之，令捨罪業。若見如來成最正覺，稱揚讚歎，普使聞知。或施於地，造立僧坊、房舍、殿堂，以為住處；及施僮僕，供承作役。或以自身施來乞者，或施於佛。為求法故，歡喜踊躍；為眾生故，承事供養。或捨王位、城邑、聚落、宮殿、園林、妻子、眷屬，隨所乞求，悉滿其願。或捨一切資生之物，普設無遮大施之會；其中眾生種種福田，或從遠來，或從近來，或賢或愚，或好或醜，若男若女、人與非人，心行不同，所求各異，等皆施與，悉令滿足。
"Forever guiding and transforming the multitude through the true Dharma, they cause them to cultivate wholesome conduct and leave evil far behind. Should they see a living being who has injured another's body, with a compassionate mind they save them, causing them to relinquish their offense. Should they see a Tathāgata accomplish the most true and complete awakening, they praise and extol it, causing everyone everywhere to hear of it. Or they give away land, to establish monastic dwellings, houses, and halls as places of abode; and they give servants, to attend upon and perform every service. Or they give their own body to those who come begging, or give it to the Buddha. For the sake of seeking the Dharma, they leap with joy; for the sake of living beings, they attend upon and make offerings. Or they relinquish their kingship, cities, towns, palaces, gardens and groves, wife and children, and retinue — according with whatever is begged of them, they fulfill every wish entirely. Or they relinquish every implement of livelihood, universally establishing an unrestricted great almsgiving assembly; the living beings there, of every kind of field of merit, some coming from afar, some coming from nearby, some wise and some foolish, some fair and some unsightly, whether male or female, human or non-human, their minds and conduct all different, what they seek each distinct — to all of them equally he gives, causing every one of them to be entirely satisfied.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩如是施時，發善攝心，悉以迴向。所謂：善攝色，隨順堅固一切善根；善攝受、想、行、識，隨順堅固一切善根；善攝王位，隨順堅固一切善根；善攝眷屬，隨順堅固一切善根；善攝資具，隨順堅固一切善根；善攝惠施，隨順堅固一切善根。
Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives in just this way, they give rise to a mind that skillfully gathers, and dedicate all of it entirely. Namely: skillfully gathering form, according with and firming every wholesome root; skillfully gathering sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness, according with and firming every wholesome root; skillfully gathering kingship, according with and firming every wholesome root; skillfully gathering retinue, according with and firming every wholesome root; skillfully gathering implements of livelihood, according with and firming every wholesome root; skillfully gathering generous giving itself, according with and firming every wholesome root.
The closing list's final item is easy to pass over but does real work: "skillfully gathering generous giving itself" means the act of giving is not exempt from the same dedication applied to everything else given away. Even generosity, if clung to as an accomplishment, would fail to firm a wholesome root — the dedication asks that the giving be given too.
Part 262 Complete
This closes Part 262. Chapter 25 continues in Part 263 as the sixth dedication turns to a long, itemized sequence — food, drink, flavor, vehicles, clothing, and more — each gift paired with its own specific vow for living beings.