Blood, and Ten Bodies
Following Dharma-Deed Bodhisattva and Wholesome-Intent King Bodhisattva, the bodhisattva breaks open his own body and lets out his blood to give to sentient beings. Eleven minds are named as present at once in the act — a mind that delights in seeing the beggar, a mind that harbors no aversion, a mind with no attachment to himself — before ten dedication-vows describe ten bodies in turn: unwearied as vajra, indestructible, born of the Dharma-realm, vast as empty space.
Ten Bodies, No Body
The ten bodies wished for in this dedication move steadily away from anything the word "body" ordinarily names: unwearied, indestructible, born of the Dharma-realm and "relying on nothing at all," and finally "a body like empty space, unstained by any worldly affliction." A body given away this completely, the vows suggest, is exchanged for something that has stopped being a body in the vulnerable sense at all.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩壞身出血布施眾生，如法業菩薩、善意王菩薩，及餘無量諸菩薩等。於諸趣中施身血時，起成就一切智心，起欣仰大菩提心，起樂修菩薩行心，起不取苦受心，起樂見乞者心，起不嫌來乞心，起趣向一切菩薩道心，起守護一切菩薩捨心，起增廣菩薩善施心，起不退轉心、不休息心、無戀己心；以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生皆得成就法身、智身；願一切眾生得無勞倦身，猶如金剛；願一切眾生得不可壞身，無能傷害；願一切眾生得如變化身，普現世間無有盡極；願一切眾生得可愛樂身，淨妙堅固；願一切眾生得法界生身，同於如來無所依止；願一切眾生得如妙寶光明之身，一切世人無能映蔽；願一切眾生得智藏身，於不死界而得自在；願一切眾生得寶海身，見皆獲益，無空過者；願一切眾生得虛空身，世間惱患無能染著。』是為菩薩摩訶薩施身血時，以大乘心、清淨心、廣大心、欣悅心、慶幸心、歡喜心、增上心、安樂心、無濁心善根迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva breaks open his own body and lets out his blood to give to sentient beings, just as Dharma-Deed Bodhisattva, Wholesome-Intent King Bodhisattva, and countless other bodhisattvas have done. Throughout the various destinies, when giving his own body's blood, he gives rise to a mind that accomplishes omniscience, gives rise to a mind that joyfully looks up to great bodhi, gives rise to a mind that delights in cultivating the practice of a bodhisattva, gives rise to a mind that does not grasp at the suffering feeling, gives rise to a mind that delights in seeing the beggar, gives rise to a mind that harbors no aversion toward whoever comes to beg, gives rise to a mind that proceeds toward the entire path of a bodhisattva, gives rise to a mind that guards and protects every bodhisattva's relinquishment, gives rise to a mind that increases and expands a bodhisattva's wholesome giving, gives rise to a mind that never regresses, a mind that never rests, and a mind with no attachment to himself; with every wholesome root, he dedicates it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings all accomplish the Dharma-body and the wisdom-body; may all sentient beings obtain a body free of weariness and fatigue, like vajra itself; may all sentient beings obtain an indestructible body, harmed by nothing; may all sentient beings obtain a body like a transformation-body, universally manifesting throughout the world without ever being exhausted; may all sentient beings obtain a lovable and joyful body, pure, wondrous, and firm; may all sentient beings obtain a body born of the Dharma-realm, the same as the Tathāgata's own, relying on nothing at all; may all sentient beings obtain a body of light like a wondrous jewel, obscured by no person in any world; may all sentient beings obtain the body of the treasury of wisdom, attaining mastery within the deathless realm; may all sentient beings obtain the body of an ocean of jewels, benefiting whoever beholds it, with none passing by in vain; may all sentient beings obtain a body like empty space, unstained by any worldly affliction.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots, made with a mind of the Great Vehicle, a pure mind, a vast and expansive mind, a joyful mind, a fortunate mind, a delighted mind, an ever-increasing mind, a mind of peace and happiness, and a mind free of turbidity, when giving his own body's blood.
The closing list of nine minds — Great Vehicle, pure, vast, joyful, fortunate, delighted, ever-increasing, peaceful, and free of turbidity — replaces any single word like "compassion" or "resolve" with a whole cluster of qualifiers, none of them redundant with the others. Even naming the state of mind behind this gift, the text refuses to let one word stand in for the whole of it.
Part 296 Complete
This closes the section on giving the blood (施身血) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 297 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva, following Beneficial Bodhisattva and All-Giving King Bodhisattva, gives away his own marrow and flesh to whoever asks for them.