Ninety-Six Kinds of Mistaken View
Jeweled carts given to śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas are offered from ten distinct states of mind — a field of merit, an ocean of merit, cultivation across hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of kalpas — and dedicated toward twenty wishes: becoming a foremost field of merit trusted by the world, hearing the Buddha's own name so that it is never wasted, and relinquishing every one of ninety-six kinds of heterodox, mistaken view.
A Field That Bears Fruit
"Field of merit" (福田) runs through this passage as its governing image, appearing in wish after wish with a different qualifier each time — foremost, pure, most supreme, inexhaustible. A field must be planted, tended, and eventually harvested; the wishes that follow trace exactly this arc, from drawing near a field of merit, to becoming one oneself, to the harvest itself: an inexhaustible accumulation of merit and, at the very end, giving up everything one has in reverent offering.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以眾寶車布施聲聞、獨覺之時，起如是心，所謂：福田心、尊敬心、功德海心、能出生功德智慧心、從如來功德勢力所生心、百千億那由他劫修習心、能於不可說劫修菩薩行心、解脫一切魔繫縛心、摧滅一切魔軍眾心、慧光照了無上法心；以此施車所有善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生為世所信第一福田，具足無上檀波羅蜜；願一切眾生離無益語，常樂獨處，心無二念；願一切眾生成最第一清淨福田，攝諸眾生令修福業；願一切眾生成智慧淵，能與眾生無量無數善根果報；願一切眾生住無礙行，滿足清淨第一福田；願一切眾生住無諍法，了一切法皆無所作、無性為性；願一切眾生常得親近最上福田，具足修成無量福德；願一切眾生能現無量自在神通，以淨福田攝諸含識；願一切眾生具足無盡功德福田，能與眾生如來十力第一乘果；願一切眾生為能辦果真實福田，成一切智，無盡福聚。』
"Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives every kind of jeweled cart to śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas, they give rise to minds such as these, namely: the mind of a field of merit, the mind of reverence, the mind of an ocean of merit, the mind able to give birth to merit and wisdom, the mind born from the Tathāgata's own power of merit, the mind of cultivation throughout hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of kalpas, the mind able to cultivate the bodhisattva practice throughout indescribable kalpas, the mind of liberation from every bond of Māra, the mind that crushes and destroys every army of Māra, and the mind whose light of wisdom illuminates the unsurpassed Dharma. They dedicate every wholesome root of this very giving of carts in just this way, namely: 'May every living being become the foremost field of merit trusted by the world, fully endowed with the unsurpassed perfection of giving; may every living being leave behind useless speech, forever delighting in solitude, their mind without any dual thought; may every living being become the most foremost and pure field of merit, gathering in living beings and causing them to cultivate meritorious deeds; may every living being become a deep well of wisdom, able to give living beings immeasurable, countless wholesome roots and their resultant fruits; may every living being abide in unobstructed practice, fully satisfying the foremost, pure field of merit; may every living being abide in the dharma of non-contention, understanding that every dharma is without any doing at all, taking non-nature as its very nature; may every living being forever draw near to the most supreme field of merit, fully cultivating and accomplishing immeasurable merit; may every living being be able to manifest immeasurable, sovereign spiritual power, gathering in every sentient being through a pure field of merit; may every living being be fully endowed with the inexhaustible field of merit, able to give living beings the fruit of the foremost vehicle that is the Tathāgata's own ten powers; may every living being become a true field of merit able to bring the fruit to completion, accomplishing all-knowing wisdom, an inexhaustible accumulation of merit.'
『願一切眾生得滅罪法，悉能受持所未曾聞佛法句義；願一切眾生常勤聽受一切佛法，聞悉解悟，無空過者；願一切眾生聽聞佛法通達究竟，如其所聞，隨順演說；願一切眾生於如來教信解修行，捨離一切九十六種外道邪見；願一切眾生常見賢聖，增長一切最勝善根；願一切眾生心常信樂智行之士，與諸聖哲同止共歡；願一切眾生聽聞佛名悉不唐捐，隨其所聞，咸得目見；願一切眾生善分別知諸佛正教，悉能守護持佛法者；願一切眾生常樂聽聞一切佛法，受持讀誦，開示照了；願一切眾生信解佛教如實功德，悉捨所有，恭敬供養。』是為菩薩摩訶薩施聲聞、獨覺種種車時善根迴向；為令眾生皆得成就清淨第一智慧神通，精進修行無有懈怠，獲一切智、力、無畏故。
"May every living being attain the dharma that extinguishes offenses, able to uphold entirely the meaning of every buddha-dharma phrase never before heard; may every living being forever diligently listen to and receive every buddha-dharma, understanding and awakening to whatever they hear, with none of it passing by in vain; may every living being, having listened to the buddha-dharma, penetrate it to its very end, expounding it in accordance with whatever they have heard; may every living being believe, understand, and practice the Tathāgata's own teaching, relinquishing every one of the ninety-six kinds of heterodox, mistaken views; may every living being forever behold the worthy and the noble, causing every most supreme wholesome root to grow ever further; may every living being's mind forever believe in and delight in those of wise conduct, dwelling and rejoicing together with every sage and wise one; may every living being, having heard the Buddha's own name, never have it be wasted in vain, but according with whatever they have heard, entirely attain seeing it with their own eyes; may every living being skillfully discern and know the true teaching of every buddha, able to guard and uphold entirely whoever upholds the buddha-dharma; may every living being forever delight in listening to every buddha-dharma, upholding, reading, and reciting it, opening it up and illuminating it clearly; may every living being believe in and understand the true merit of the Buddha's own teaching exactly as it is, giving up everything they have, reverently making offerings." This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of the wholesome root when giving every kind of cart to śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas; it is done so that living beings entirely accomplish pure, foremost wisdom and spiritual power, diligently cultivating and practicing without ever growing weary, attaining all-knowing wisdom, power, and fearlessness.
The "ninety-six kinds of heterodox, mistaken view" is a stock classical enumeration this passage names without pausing to list — a shorthand for the total range of wrong doctrine a practitioner of the time would have recognized, rather than a precise catalogue the sūtra expects its reader to already carry. Naming a number this specific, without spelling out its contents, does its own rhetorical work: it signals that the dedication is not vaguely opposed to error but comprehensively so, down to every last named variety.
Part 274 Complete
This closes Part 274. Chapter 25 continues in Part 275 as the sixth dedication's litany of specific gifts continues.