Nineteen States of Mind While Giving Everything
The bodhisattva's imagined vow of giving grows more intimate still: after worlds filled with jewels and crowns, he now imagines asaṃkhyeya worlds filled with jeweled elephants and horses, entertainers, servants, and finally his own body, head, eyes, and the very blood, flesh, and marrow within him — all given to a single being, then to every being throughout the whole of space, without a single instant of weariness — before the passage names the nineteen distinct states of mind such giving gives rise to.
From Jeweled Elephants to One's Own Marrow
The vow's escalation is deliberate: from possessions (jeweled elephants and horses, entertainers, servants) to the body itself (head, eyes, blood, flesh, marrow) to status (kingship) — each one imagined filling asaṃkhyeya worlds, each one given away without hesitation. What follows names the mind that makes such giving possible: not one motive but nineteen, each a slightly different facet of the same underlying freedom.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩復作是念：『我為一眾生故，欲令阿僧祇世界寶象充滿，七支具足，性極調順，上立金幢，金網彌覆，種種妙寶而為莊嚴，以用布施；願令阿僧祇世界寶馬充滿，如龍馬王，種種眾寶莊嚴之具而嚴飾之，持用布施；願令阿僧祇世界妓女充滿，悉能敷奏種種妙音，持用布施；願令阿僧祇世界男女充滿，持用布施；願令阿僧祇世界己身充滿，發菩提心而用布施；願令阿僧祇世界己頭充滿，起不放逸心而用布施；願令阿僧祇世界己眼充滿，而用布施；願令阿僧祇世界己身血肉及以骨髓充滿其中，心無顧戀，持用布施；願令阿僧祇世界自在王位充滿其中，持用布施；願令阿僧祇世界奴僕作使充滿其中，持用布施。』菩薩摩訶薩以如是等種種諸物，盡未來劫，安住廣大一切施心，施一眾生；如一眾生，盡眾生界一切眾生皆如是施。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva further thinks: 'For the sake of a single sentient being, I wish to cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with jeweled elephants, their seven limbs entirely complete, their nature utterly gentle and compliant, golden banners raised upon them, covered over with golden netting, adorned with every kind of wondrous jewel, and I give them all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with jeweled horses, like the very king of dragon-horses, adorned and bedecked with every kind of jeweled ornament, and give them all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with entertainers, each one able to perform every kind of wondrous music, and give them all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with men and women, and give them all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with my own body, and give it all away, giving rise to the mind of enlightenment as I do so; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with my own head, and give it all away, giving rise to a mind free of any heedlessness as I do so; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with my own eyes, and give them all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with the blood, flesh, and marrow of my own body, and give it all away, my mind free of any longing attachment; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with my own sovereign kingship, and give it all away; may I cause asaṃkhyeya worlds to be filled with servants and attendants, and give them all away.' The bodhisattva mahāsattva, with all such various things as these, throughout every future kalpa, abides securely in a vast mind of giving everything, and gives to a single sentient being; and just as he gives to that one sentient being, so too does he give in this same way to every sentient being throughout the entire realm of sentient beings.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩於一世界，盡未來劫，修菩薩行，以是等物施一眾生，如是給施一切眾生，皆令滿足；如於一世界，於盡虛空遍法界一切世界中悉亦如是，大悲普覆，終無間息，普加哀愍，隨其所須供給供養，不令施行遇緣而息，乃至不於一彈指頃生疲倦心。佛子！菩薩摩訶薩如是施時，生於此心，所謂：無著心、無縛心、解脫心、大力心、甚深心、善攝心、無執心、無壽者心、善調伏心、不散亂心、不妄計心、具種種寶性心、不求果報心、了達一切法心、住大迴向心、善決諸義心、令一切眾生住無上智心、生大法光明心、入一切智智心。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva, within a single world, throughout every future kalpa, cultivates the practice of a bodhisattva, giving such things to a single sentient being, and giving in this same way to every sentient being, causing them all to be satisfied entirely; and just as within a single world, so too is it within every world throughout the whole of empty space and the entire Dharma-realm; his great compassion universally covers all, forever without any interruption, extending his pity and compassion to all, providing and making offerings according to whatever they need, never once letting his practice of giving cease upon meeting some obstacle, and never, even for the space of a finger-snap, giving rise to a weary mind. Child of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva mahāsattva gives in this way, he gives rise to these states of mind, namely: a mind free of attachment, a mind free of bondage, a mind of liberation, a mind of great power, a mind of great profundity, a mind that skillfully restrains itself, a mind free of grasping, a mind free of any notion of a life, a mind well tamed, a mind free of distraction, a mind free of false calculation, a mind possessing every kind of precious nature, a mind that seeks no reward in return, a mind that fully comprehends every dharma, a mind that abides in the great dedication, a mind that skillfully resolves every meaning, a mind that causes all sentient beings to abide in unsurpassed wisdom, a mind that gives rise to the great light of the Dharma, and a mind that enters the wisdom of all-wisdom.
"Never, even for the space of a finger-snap, giving rise to a weary mind" sets an almost impossible standard against which the nineteen states of mind that follow can be read as a kind of psychological anatomy — not a single heroic resolve, but nineteen separate, mutually reinforcing habits of mind, from freedom of attachment to entering the wisdom of all-wisdom, that together make such giving sustainable rather than a single unrepeatable act of will.
Part 332 Complete
This continues the seventh dedication's account of the bodhisattva's giving. Chapter 25 continues in Part 333 as the bodhisattva dedicates these gathered wholesome roots moment by moment, wishing that all sentient beings become abundant in wealth, complete in every safety and happiness, and never fall into any place of difficulty.