Ten Kinds of Equal Mind
Having refused every wrong reason for dedicating in the previous Part, the bodhisattva mahāsattva now names the mind with which he dedicates instead — ten kinds of equal mind, from the equal mind of fundamental nature to the mind that gives rise to the very lineage of every buddha throughout the three times — before turning to a list of twenty vows for the sake of every sentient being, beginning with freedom from the three lower destinies and ending in the vast gate of every buddha's own Dharma.
Ten Kinds of Equal Mind, Twenty Vows for Every Sentient Being
The passage names the mind behind the dedication before turning outward to what it wishes for others — first ten qualities of an equal mind, from the equal mind of fundamental nature to a mind that never regresses in its spiritual powers, then twenty vows opening with escape from hell, the animal realm, and the place of Yama, King of Death, before rising through the turning of the Dharma wheel to the vast gate of every buddha's own teaching.
』「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以彼善根迴向時，以如是心迴向，所謂：『以本性平等心迴向，以法性平等心迴向，以一切眾生無量平等心迴向，以無諍平等心迴向，以自性無所起平等心迴向，以知諸法無亂心迴向，以入三世平等心迴向，以出生三世諸佛種性心迴向，以得不退失神通心迴向，以生成一切智行心迴向。又為令一切眾生永離一切地獄故迴向；為令一切眾生不入畜生趣故迴向；為令一切眾生不往閻羅王處故迴向；為令一切眾生除滅一切障道法故迴向；為令一切眾生滿足一切善根故迴向；為令一切眾生能應時轉法輪，令一切歡喜故迴向；為令一切眾生入十力輪故迴向；為令一切眾生滿足菩薩無邊清淨法願故迴向；為令一切眾生隨順一切善知識教，菩提心器得滿足故迴向；為令一切眾生受持修行甚深佛法，得一切佛智光明故迴向；為令一切眾生修諸菩薩無障礙行常現前故迴向；為令一切眾生常見諸佛現其前故迴向；為令一切眾生清淨法光明常現前故迴向；為令一切眾生無畏大菩提心常現前故迴向；為令一切眾生菩薩不思議智常現前故迴向；為令一切眾生普救護眾生，令清淨大悲心常現前故迴向；為令一切眾生以不可說不可說勝妙莊嚴具莊嚴一切諸佛剎故迴向；為令一切眾生摧滅一切眾魔鬪諍羅網業故迴向；為令一切眾生於一切佛剎皆無所依修菩薩行故迴向；為令一切眾生發一切種智心，入一切佛法廣大門故迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! When this bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates those wholesome roots, he dedicates with a mind such as this, namely: he dedicates with the equal mind of fundamental nature, he dedicates with the equal mind of dharma-nature, he dedicates with the equal mind of every sentient being's own immeasurability, he dedicates with the equal mind that never disputes, he dedicates with the equal mind whose own nature gives rise to nothing, he dedicates with the mind that knows every dharma without confusion, he dedicates with the equal mind that enters the three times, he dedicates with the mind that gives rise to the very lineage of every buddha throughout the three times, he dedicates with the mind that attains spiritual powers never lost through regression, and he dedicates with the mind that gives rise to and accomplishes the practice of omniscience. He further dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to forever leave behind every hell; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to never enter the animal destiny; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to never go to the place of Yama, King of Death; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to eliminate every dharma that obstructs the path; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to fulfill every wholesome root; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to be able to turn the wheel of the Dharma at the fitting time, causing everyone to rejoice; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to enter the wheel of the ten powers; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to fulfill a bodhisattva's own boundless, pure vow of the Dharma; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to follow the teaching of every good spiritual friend, their vessel of the mind of enlightenment attaining fulfillment; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to uphold and cultivate every buddha's own profound Dharma, attaining the light of every buddha's own wisdom; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to cultivate every bodhisattva's own unobstructed practice, forever manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to forever behold every buddha manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to have the light of the pure Dharma forever manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to have a fearless, great mind of enlightenment forever manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to have a bodhisattva's own inconceivable wisdom forever manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to universally save and protect sentient beings, causing a pure, great mind of compassion to be forever manifest before them; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to adorn every buddha-land with inexpressible, inexpressible supreme and wondrous adornments; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to crush and destroy every karma of Māra's hosts and their net of contention; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to cultivate a bodhisattva's own practice throughout every buddha-land, relying on nothing at all; he dedicates for the sake of causing every sentient being to give rise to the mind of omniscience of every kind, entering the vast gate of every buddha's own Dharma.
This is the first place in the tenth dedication where hell, the animal realm, and Yama's own domain appear at all — after many Parts of cosmic-scale vows about the dharma-realm, kalpas, and every buddha-land, the passage turns, briefly, to the most ordinary fear a sentient being might actually hold. The vast and the immediate sit side by side without any sense of mismatch.
Part 380 Complete
This continues the tenth dedication's prose section. Chapter 25 continues in Part 381 as the bodhisattva mahāsattva dedicates his wholesome roots through pure, settled mindfulness and resolute wisdom, vowing to fully know every buddha's own skillful means and fulfill a pure, supreme mind for the sake of every sentient being.