Twenty Minds, Given Away
Following Never-Regretting Bodhisattva and Unobstructed King Bodhisattva, the bodhisattva gives his own mind to whoever comes begging for it. Ten minds are named as present in the giving itself — mastery in giving, habituation to giving, right mindfulness of every buddha — before the dedication names nineteen further minds the giving is for: unbreakable as vajra, firm as Nārāyaṇa, unstartled, unafraid, clad in armor of vajra.
A Mind That Cannot Be Given Like an Object
Where earlier gifts named a body part and then wished for a transformed version of it, giving the mind poses a harder problem: a mind is not a thing that can simply change hands. The passage answers by multiplying minds rather than objects — ten minds cultivated in the act of giving, nineteen more wished for in the dedication — as though the only way to give a mind away is to keep naming, one after another, what a mind can become.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以心布施諸來乞者，如無悔厭菩薩、無礙王菩薩，及餘無量諸大菩薩。以其自心施乞者時，學自在施心，修一切施心，習行檀波羅蜜心，成就檀波羅蜜心，學一切菩薩布施心、一切悉捨無盡心、一切悉施慣習心、荷負一切菩薩施行心、正念一切諸佛現前心、供養一切諸來乞者無斷絕心。菩薩摩訶薩如是施時，其心清淨，為度一切諸眾生故，為得十力菩提處故，為依大願而修行故，為欲安住菩薩道故，為欲成就一切智故，為不捨離本誓願故，以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生得金剛藏心，一切金剛圍山等所不能壞；願一切眾生得卐相莊嚴金剛界心，得無能動搖心，得不可恐怖心，得利益世間常無盡心，得大勇猛幢智慧藏心，得如那羅延堅固幢心，得如眾生海不可盡心，得那羅延藏無能壞心，得滅諸魔業、魔軍眾心，得無所畏心，得大威德心，得常精進心，得大勇猛心，得不驚懼心，得被金剛甲冑心，得諸菩薩最上心，得成就佛法菩提光明心，得菩提樹下坐安住一切諸佛正法離諸迷惑成一切智心，得成就十力心。』是為菩薩摩訶薩布施心時善根迴向；為令眾生不染世間，具足如來十力心故。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva gives his own mind to whoever comes begging for it, just as Never-Regretting Bodhisattva, Unobstructed King Bodhisattva, and countless other great bodhisattvas have done. When he gives his own mind to a beggar, he learns the mind of mastery in giving, cultivates the mind of giving everything, practices the mind of the perfection of giving, accomplishes the mind of the perfection of giving, learns the mind of giving practiced by every bodhisattva, the mind of relinquishing everything inexhaustibly, the mind habituated to giving everything, the mind that bears the burden of every bodhisattva's practice of giving, the mind of right mindfulness in which every buddha appears before him, and the mind that makes offerings to whoever comes begging without ever ceasing. When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives in this way, his mind is pure, for the sake of delivering every sentient being, for the sake of attaining the ground of bodhi with its ten powers, for the sake of practicing in reliance upon his great vow, for the sake of wishing to abide securely on the bodhisattva path, for the sake of wishing to accomplish omniscience, and for the sake of never relinquishing his original vow; with every wholesome root, he dedicates it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings obtain the mind that is a treasury of vajra, unbreakable by the vajra-encircling mountains or anything else; may all sentient beings obtain the mind of the vajra-realm adorned by the svastika mark, obtain the mind that nothing can shake, obtain the mind that cannot be terrified, obtain the mind that forever benefits the world without exhaustion, obtain the mind that is a treasury of wisdom and a banner of great courage, obtain the mind of a firm banner like Nārāyaṇa, obtain the mind inexhaustible like an ocean of sentient beings, obtain the mind that is a treasury of Nārāyaṇa, unbreakable by anything, obtain the mind that destroys every activity and army of Māra, obtain the mind free of fear, obtain the mind of great awesome virtue, obtain the mind of constant diligence, obtain the mind of great courage, obtain the mind unstartled and unafraid, obtain the mind clad in armor of vajra, obtain the most supreme mind of every bodhisattva, obtain the mind that accomplishes the light of bodhi in the Buddha-dharma, obtain the mind that, seated beneath the bodhi tree, abides securely in the true Dharma of every buddha, leaves behind every confusion, and accomplishes omniscience, and obtain the mind that accomplishes the ten powers.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots when giving away his mind; it is so that sentient beings may remain unstained by the world, fully endowed with the Tathāgata's own mind of the ten powers.
The nineteen minds asked for in the dedication share a common shape almost none of them break: unbreakable, unshakeable, inexhaustible, unafraid. Where the eye-giving dedication asked for capacities — seeing, understanding, awakening — this one asks almost entirely for resilience. A mind, once actually given away, turns out to be wished for less as an instrument than as something that simply cannot be taken from a being again.
Part 298 Complete
This closes the section on giving the mind (施心) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 299 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva, following Wholesome-Giving Bodhisattva and Māra-Subduing Sovereign King Bodhisattva, gives away his own intestines, kidneys, liver, and lungs to whoever asks for them.