Repaying a Profound Kindness
The bodhisattva now uses his own body simply to attend upon every buddha, and the motive named is unusually personal for this litany: he thinks of repaying a profound kindness, as though thinking of a parent. Ten dedication-vows follow, moving from a pure mind adorned with the jewel of omniscience to becoming "the foremost attendant of every buddha" — before an eleven-fold list of purposes closes the passage, ending on a mind perfectly free of regret.
Attendance as Gratitude, Not Duty
Where earlier gifts in this dedication were framed as vows, aspirations, or acts of rescue, this one begins from something closer to a filial debt: the bodhisattva serves the buddhas the way a child might care for a parent who raised them, out of gratitude for a kindness already received rather than a wish for one still to come. Everything that follows — the pure mind, the unbreakable kindred, the status of foremost attendant — is presented as what naturally grows out of that debt being honored.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩自以其身給侍諸佛，於諸佛所念報重恩如父母想，於諸如來起深信樂；以清淨心，護佛菩提，住諸佛法；離世間想，生如來家；隨順諸佛，離魔境界；了達一切諸佛所行，成就一切諸佛法器。菩薩爾時，以此善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生得清淨心，一切智寶而自莊嚴；願一切眾生住善調伏，遠離一切諸不善業；願一切眾生得不可壞堅固眷屬，普能攝受諸佛正法；願一切眾生為佛弟子，到於菩薩灌頂之地；願一切眾生常為諸佛之所攝受，永離一切不善之法；願一切眾生隨順諸佛，修行菩薩最勝之法；願一切眾生入佛境界，悉皆得授一切智記；願一切眾生與諸如來皆悉平等，一切佛法無不自在；願一切眾生悉為諸佛之所攝受，常能修行無取著業；願一切眾生常為諸佛第一侍者，一切佛所修智慧行。』是為菩薩摩訶薩給侍諸佛善根迴向；為欲證得諸佛菩提，為欲救護一切眾生，為欲出離一切三界，為欲成就無損惱心，為得無量廣大菩提，為欲成就照佛法智，為欲常蒙諸佛攝受，為得諸佛之所護持，為欲信解一切佛法，為欲成就與三世佛平等善根，為欲圓滿無悔恨心，證得一切諸佛法故。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva himself uses his own body to attend upon every buddha, thinking, in the presence of every buddha, of repaying a profound kindness, as though thinking of a parent, giving rise to profound faith and joy toward every tathāgata; with a pure mind, he protects the buddha's own bodhi, and abides in the dharma of every buddha; leaving behind every worldly thought, he is born into the household of the Tathāgata; according with every buddha, he leaves behind the domain of Māra; thoroughly understanding the practice of every buddha, he accomplishes the status of a vessel fit for every buddha-dharma. The bodhisattva then, with this wholesome root, dedicates it in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings obtain a pure mind, adorning themselves with the jewel of omniscience; may all sentient beings abide well subdued, forever leaving behind every unwholesome karma; may all sentient beings obtain unbreakable, firm kindred, universally able to embrace the true Dharma of every buddha; may all sentient beings become disciples of the Buddha, reaching the ground of a bodhisattva's own consecration; may all sentient beings forever be embraced by every buddha, forever leaving behind every unwholesome dharma; may all sentient beings, according with every buddha, cultivate the most supreme dharma of a bodhisattva; may all sentient beings enter the domain of the Buddha, all receiving the prophecy of omniscience; may all sentient beings be entirely equal to every tathāgata, sovereign and free within every buddha-dharma without exception; may all sentient beings all be embraced by every buddha, forever able to cultivate karma free of grasping and attachment; may all sentient beings forever become the foremost attendant of every buddha, cultivating the practice of wisdom in the presence of every buddha.' This is the bodhisattva mahāsattva's dedication of wholesome roots when attending upon every buddha; it is so that he may realize the bodhi of every buddha, so that he may rescue and protect every sentient being, so that he may go forth and depart from the three realms entirely, so that he may accomplish a mind free of harm and affliction, so that he may attain immeasurable, vast bodhi, so that he may accomplish the wisdom that illuminates the buddha-dharma, so that he may forever be embraced by every buddha, so that he may be protected and sustained by every buddha, so that he may have faith in and understand every buddha-dharma, so that he may accomplish wholesome roots equal to every buddha across the three periods of time, so that he may perfectly fulfill a mind free of regret, and realize every buddha-dharma entirely.
The closing list of eleven purposes ends, after every grander aim — realizing bodhi, rescuing beings, equaling every buddha across the three periods of time — on something almost domestic in scale: "a mind free of regret." After everything this dedication has asked for, the very last thing it names is simply not having anything left to wish had gone differently.
Part 315 Complete
This closes the section on attending upon every buddha (給侍諸佛) within the sixth dedication. Chapter 25 continues in Part 316 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives away his own kingdom and every treasure within it, still ruling in accordance with the Dharma.