Part 364 of the collection · Fascicle 31 of 80 · 十迴向品第二十五之九 · T279

A Single Wondrous Voice Fills Every Assembly

The litany turns to the bodhisattva's own teaching voice — expounding inexpressible dharmas within a single dharma, causing immeasurable beings gathered in countless assemblies to rejoice with a single wondrous sound — before shifting to the ten faculties of Samantabhadra and a list of ten "utterly subtle" wisdoms, from the subtlety of form itself to the subtlety of a sentient being's own karmic ripening.

Translator: Ru-Yi Meditation Center Status: Part 364 — a single voice, faculties, ten kinds of utterly subtle wisdom Source: Taishō T279 (Śikṣānanda, Tang, 695–699 CE)

Ten Kinds of Utterly Subtle Wisdom

The passage closes with two paired lists of ten, both built on the word "utterly subtle" (甚微細) — first regarding the fabric of reality itself (form, body, land, kalpa, world, direction, time, number, karmic fruit, purity), then regarding sentient beings specifically (their destiny, death, birth, abiding, place, category, domain, conduct, grasping, and clinging), each comprehended entirely within a single thought.

Chinese Source

以無著無縛解脫心,修普賢智,起普賢行,住普賢地,於一一法中演說不可說不可說法;其法廣大,種種差別教化攝受,不可思議方便相應;於無量時,於一切時,隨諸眾生所有欲解,隨根隨時,以佛音聲而為說法;以一妙音,令不可說道場眾會無量眾生皆悉歡喜,一如來所無量菩薩充滿法界;立殊勝志,生廣大見,究竟了知一切諸行,住普賢地,隨所說法,於念念中悉能證入,一剎那頃增長無量不可說不可說大智慧聚;盡未來劫如是演說,於一切剎修習廣大虛空等行,成就圓滿。以無著無縛解脫心,修習普賢諸根行門,成大行王,於一一根中悉能了知無量諸根、無量心樂、不思議境界所生妙行。以無著無縛解脫心,住普賢行大迴向心,得色甚微細智、身甚微細智、剎甚微細智、劫甚微細智、世甚微細智、方甚微細智、時甚微細智、數甚微細智、業報甚微細智、清淨甚微細智——如是等一切甚微細,於一念中悉能了知,而心不恐怖,心不迷惑、不亂、不散、不濁、不劣;其心一緣,心善寂定,心善分別,心善安住。以無著無縛解脫心,住菩薩智,修普賢行,無有懈倦,能知一切眾生趣甚微細、眾生死甚微細、眾生生甚微細、眾生住甚微細、眾生處甚微細、眾生品類甚微細、眾生境界甚微細、眾生行甚微細、眾生取甚微細、眾生攀緣甚微細——如是等一切甚微細,於一念中悉能了知。

Ru-Yi Translation

With a mind of non-attachment, non-bondage, and liberation, he cultivates Samantabhadra's own wisdom, gives rise to Samantabhadra's own practice, and abides on Samantabhadra's own ground, expounding, within each single dharma, inexpressible, inexpressible dharmas; these dharmas, vast and great, teach and gather beings in through every kind of distinction, according with inconceivable skillful means; throughout immeasurable time, throughout every time, according with whatever understanding sentient beings wish for, according with their faculty and the moment, he expounds the Dharma with the buddha's own voice; with a single wondrous voice, he causes immeasurable sentient beings gathered in inexpressible bodhimaṇḍas and assemblies to rejoice entirely, immeasurable bodhisattvas at the place of a single Tathāgata filling the Dharma-realm; establishing a supreme resolve, giving rise to a vast vision, ultimately comprehending every practice, abiding on Samantabhadra's own ground, according with whatever Dharma is expounded, thought after thought entirely able to realize and enter it, within the space of a single instant increasing an immeasurable, inexpressible, inexpressible mass of great wisdom; throughout every future kalpa expounding in this way, cultivating and practicing, throughout every land, conduct equal to vast empty space, accomplished and perfected. With a mind of non-attachment, non-bondage, and liberation, he cultivates and practices the gateway of Samantabhadra's own faculties, becoming the king of great practice, within each single faculty entirely able to comprehend immeasurable faculties, immeasurable mental joys, and the wondrous practices born from inconceivable domains. With a mind of non-attachment, non-bondage, and liberation, he abides in Samantabhadra's own practice and great dedicating mind, attaining the utterly subtle wisdom of form, the utterly subtle wisdom of body, the utterly subtle wisdom of lands, the utterly subtle wisdom of kalpas, the utterly subtle wisdom of worlds, the utterly subtle wisdom of directions, the utterly subtle wisdom of time, the utterly subtle wisdom of numbers, the utterly subtle wisdom of karmic fruit, and the utterly subtle wisdom of purity — all such utterly subtle things as these, within a single thought entirely able to comprehend them, and yet his mind is not alarmed, his mind is not confused, not distracted, not scattered, not clouded, not diminished; his mind fixed on a single object, his mind well settled in tranquil absorption, his mind well able to discern, his mind well abiding securely. With a mind of non-attachment, non-bondage, and liberation, he abides in a bodhisattva's own wisdom, cultivates Samantabhadra's own practice, without any weariness, able to know the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' destinies, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' deaths, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' births, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' abiding, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' places, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' categories, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' domains, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' conduct, the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' grasping, and the utterly subtle wisdom of sentient beings' clinging — all such utterly subtle things as these, within a single thought entirely able to comprehend them.

Reading note — Ru-Yi Meditation Center

"His mind is not alarmed" stands out amid this catalogue of comprehension — a reminder that knowing everything utterly subtle, all at once, is not merely an intellectual feat but something that could, in principle, overwhelm an unprepared mind. The passage lists calm as its own achievement: unconfused, undistracted, unscattered, unclouded, fixed on a single object, well settled — the emotional steadiness that makes such total knowing bearable.

Part 364 Complete

This continues the ninth dedication's litany of Samantabhadra's practice. Chapter 25 continues in Part 365 as the bodhisattva, with a deep and firm aspiration, comes to know the utterly subtle workings of every bodhisattva's own practice — from a bodhisattva's first arising of the mind of enlightenment to the immeasurable, distinct meditative absorptions a bodhisattva may attain.