Ten Eyes, One Gift
Following the topknot, the bodhisattva gives away his own eyes to whoever comes asking, in the tradition of Joyful Practice Bodhisattva and Moonlight King Bodhisattva. Before the dedication even begins, the passage pauses to name nine distinct minds arising together in the act — of pure giving, of unbreakable faith, of joyful acceptance toward the beggar — before ten vows trace a whole taxonomy of eyes: fleshly, divine, Dharma, wisdom, universal, and the Buddha's own.
Nine Minds, Then Ten Eyes
The passage's structure is unusually deliberate for an act this drastic: before the eyes are ever given, nine separate minds are named as arising together — not sequentially cultivated but present at once in the single act of giving. Only then does the dedication itself begin, moving the gift of physical sight through a graded series culminating in the Buddha's own eye, which alone "awakens entirely to every dharma."
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以眼布施諸來乞者，如歡喜行菩薩、月光王菩薩，及餘無量諸菩薩等所行惠施。菩薩摩訶薩布施眼時，起清淨施眼心，起清淨智眼心，起依止法光明心，起現觀無上佛道心，發迴向廣大智慧心，發與三世菩薩平等捨施心，發於無礙眼起不壞淨信心，於其乞者起歡喜攝受心；為究竟一切神通故，為生佛眼故，為增廣大菩提心故，為修習大慈悲故，為制伏六根故，於如是法而生其心。佛子！菩薩摩訶薩布施眼時，於其乞者心生愛樂，為設施會，增長法力；捨離世間愛見放逸，除斷欲縛，修習菩提；隨彼所求，心安不動，不違其意，皆令滿足，而常隨順無二捨行。以此善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生得最勝眼，示導一切；願一切眾生得無礙眼，開廣智藏；願一切眾生得淨肉眼，光明鑒徹，無能蔽者；願一切眾生得淨天眼，悉見眾生生死業果；願一切眾生得淨法眼，能隨順入如來境界；願一切眾生得智慧眼，捨離一切分別取著；願一切眾生具足佛眼，悉能覺悟一切諸法；願一切眾生成就普眼，盡諸境界無所障礙；願一切眾生成就清淨離癡瞖眼，了眾生界空無所有；願一切眾生具足清淨無障礙眼，皆得究竟如來十力。』是為菩薩摩訶薩布施眼時善根迴向，為令眾生得一切智清淨眼故。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away his own eyes to whoever comes begging for them, just as Joyful Practice Bodhisattva, Moonlight King Bodhisattva, and countless other bodhisattvas have practiced giving. When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away his eyes, he gives rise to a mind of pure eye-giving, gives rise to a mind of pure wisdom-eye, gives rise to a mind relying upon the light of the Dharma, gives rise to a mind that directly perceives the unsurpassed path of buddhahood, gives rise to a mind dedicated toward vast and great wisdom, gives rise to a mind of relinquishment equal to that of every bodhisattva across the three periods of time, gives rise, toward the unobstructed eye, to a mind of unbreakable pure faith, and gives rise, toward the beggar, to a mind of joyful acceptance; it is for the sake of ultimately accomplishing every spiritual power, for the sake of giving birth to the Buddha's own eye, for the sake of increasing and expanding the bodhi-mind, for the sake of cultivating great loving-kindness and compassion, and for the sake of subduing the six faculties, that this mind arises within such dharmas as these. Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away his eyes, his mind gives rise to fondness and joy toward the beggar; for their sake he sets up an assembly of giving, increasing the power of the Dharma; he relinquishes worldly craving, wrong views, and heedlessness, cuts off the bonds of desire, and cultivates bodhi; according with whatever is sought of him, his mind remains settled and unmoved, never contrary to the beggar's wish, causing it to be entirely fulfilled, forever according with a practice of relinquishment that admits no duality. With this wholesome root, they dedicate it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings obtain the most supreme eye, showing the way to everyone; may all sentient beings obtain the unobstructed eye, opening wide the treasury of wisdom; may all sentient beings obtain the pure fleshly eye, its light seeing through all things, obscured by nothing; may all sentient beings obtain the pure divine eye, beholding entirely the karmic fruit of birth and death of every sentient being; may all sentient beings obtain the pure Dharma eye, able to enter, in accordance, the Tathāgata's own domain; may all sentient beings obtain the eye of wisdom, relinquishing every discrimination and grasping attachment; may all sentient beings be fully endowed with the Buddha's eye, able to awaken entirely to every dharma; may all sentient beings accomplish the universal eye, exhausting every domain without any obstruction; may all sentient beings accomplish the pure eye free of the cataract of delusion, understanding the realm of sentient beings to be empty and without anything at all; may all sentient beings be fully endowed with the pure, unobstructed eye, all ultimately attaining the Tathāgata's own ten powers.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots when giving away his eyes; it is so that sentient beings may obtain the pure eye of omniscience.
"A practice of relinquishment that admits no duality" closes the narrative portion just before the dedication begins, and it names something easy to miss in a passage this visceral: the giving of the eyes is not framed as a sacrifice weighed against a competing wish to keep them. There is, in this account, no second mind quietly resisting the first — only one undivided act.
Part 289 Complete
This closes the section on giving the eyes (施眼) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 290 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away his own ears and nose to those who ask for them.