A Compassionate Mind, Ten Further Vows
After the long dedication litany's conclusion, the sūtra pauses to describe the bodhisattva's inner state directly — a mind free of stinginess and jealousy, honest and gentle, forever free of anger and confusion — before six further reasons for his dedication and, at last, ten short vows wishing every sentient being ultimate safety, purity, happiness, liberation, and mastery of the ten powers.
A Mind Honest, Gentle, and Free of Anger
Where the preceding litany named purposes almost entirely from the outside — merit, wisdom, spiritual power — this passage turns inward, portraying the bodhisattva's own character directly: a mind free of flattery and crookedness, unwavering in equanimity, bearing suffering on behalf of sentient beings out of compassion rather than obligation.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩如是悲愍利益安樂一切眾生，咸令清淨，遠離慳嫉，受勝妙生，具大威德，生大信解，永離瞋恚及諸翳濁。其心清淨，質直柔軟，無有諂曲、迷惑、愚癡，行出離行，堅固不壞平等之心永無退轉，白淨法力具足成就，無惱無失，善巧迴向；常修正行調伏眾生，滅除一切諸不善業，修行苦行一切善根；又勸眾生令其修習，普為含識具受眾苦，以大智眼觀諸善根，知其悉以智慧為性，方便迴向一切眾生。為令一切眾生悉得安住一切清淨功德處故；為令一切眾生悉能攝受一切善根，知諸功德性及義故；為令一切眾生普淨一切諸善根故；為令一切眾生於福田境界中種諸善法心無悔故；為令一切眾生普能攝受一切眾生，一一皆令趣一切智故；為令一切眾生普攝一切所有善根，一一皆與平等迴向而相應故。又以諸善根如是迴向，所謂：『願一切眾生究竟安隱，願一切眾生究竟清淨，願一切眾生究竟安樂，願一切眾生究竟解脫，願一切眾生究竟平等，願一切眾生究竟了達，願一切眾生究竟安住諸白淨法，願一切眾生得無礙眼，願一切眾生善調其心，願一切眾生具足十力調伏眾生。』
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva, compassionately pitying and bringing benefit and peaceful happiness to all sentient beings in this way, causes them all to become pure, leaving behind stinginess and jealousy, receiving a supreme and wondrous birth, possessing great majestic virtue, giving rise to great faith and understanding, forever leaving behind anger, hatred, and every clouding defilement. His mind is pure, honest, upright, and gentle, free of any flattery, crookedness, confusion, or foolishness; he practices the practice of renunciation, his firm and indestructible mind of equanimity forever without regression, the power of pure, unblemished dharmas entirely accomplished within him, without vexation and without fault, skillfully dedicating his merit; he forever cultivates true practice, taming sentient beings, extinguishing every unwholesome karmic act, and cultivating every wholesome root through ascetic practice; and moreover he encourages sentient beings to cultivate it themselves, universally enduring every kind of suffering on behalf of every sentient being, and with the eye of great wisdom he contemplates every wholesome root, knowing that its very nature is wisdom itself, skillfully dedicating it to all sentient beings. So that all sentient beings may entirely attain and abide securely in every place of pure merit; so that all sentient beings may be entirely able to gather in every wholesome root, knowing the nature and meaning of every merit; so that all sentient beings may universally purify every wholesome root; so that all sentient beings, within the domain of a field of merit, may plant every wholesome dharma with a mind free of regret; so that all sentient beings may be universally able to gather in every sentient being, causing each and every one to proceed toward all-wisdom; so that all sentient beings may universally gather in every wholesome root they possess, each and every one in accord with equal dedication. Moreover, with these wholesome roots, he dedicates them in this way, namely: 'May all sentient beings ultimately attain safety and peace; may all sentient beings ultimately attain purity; may all sentient beings ultimately attain peaceful happiness; may all sentient beings ultimately attain liberation; may all sentient beings ultimately attain equality; may all sentient beings ultimately attain complete comprehension; may all sentient beings ultimately abide securely in every pure, unblemished dharma; may all sentient beings attain an unobstructed eye; may all sentient beings skillfully tame their own minds; may all sentient beings fully possess the ten powers, taming sentient beings.'"
"Universally enduring every kind of suffering on behalf of every sentient being" reframes the bodhisattva's compassion as something closer to substitution than sympathy — not merely feeling for beings in difficulty, but bearing what they bear, so that his wisdom's dedication to them carries the weight of shared experience rather than distant goodwill.
Part 337 Complete
This continues the seventh dedication's account of the bodhisattva's compassion. Chapter 25 continues in Part 338 as the bodhisattva reflects that this dedication remains unattached to karma, to its results, to body, to things, to lands, or to sentient beings themselves, and dedicates it so that all sentient beings may fulfill the wisdom of a buddha, their minds pure and their wisdom clear.