Ten Names for One Ground
Ten powers, each with its reason, and then something no other ground receives — ten alternative names, each with a reason of its own. The eighth ground is called immovable, non-turning, hard to attain, youthful, generative, completed, ultimate, transformative, sustaining, and effortless; and the last of the ten explains all the rest.
Ten Powers Well Abided In
Each power is given with the reason it holds, and the reasons are all negative or protective — nothing operates, nothing departs, nothing is forsaken, nothing is forgotten.
佛子！菩薩住此地，得善住深心力，一切煩惱不行故；得善住勝心力，不離於道故；得善住大悲力，不捨利益眾生故；得善住大慈力，救護一切世間故；得善住陀羅尼力，不忘於法故；得善住辯才力，善觀察分別一切法故；得善住神通力，普往無邊世界故；得善住大願力，不捨一切菩薩所作故；得善住波羅蜜力，成就一切佛法故；得如來護念力，一切種、一切智智現前故。此菩薩得如是智力，能現一切諸所作事，於諸事中無有過咎。
Child of the Buddha! A bodhisattva abiding on this ground attains the power of being well established in the profound mind, because no affliction operates in them; the power of being well established in the surpassing mind, because they do not depart from the path; the power of being well established in great compassion, because they do not forsake the benefiting of beings; the power of being well established in great loving-kindness, because they rescue and protect the whole world; the power of being well established in dhāraṇī, because they do not forget the Dharma; the power of being well established in eloquence, because they well contemplate and discriminate all dharmas; the power of being well established in spiritual penetration, because they travel universally to boundless worlds; the power of being well established in great vows, because they do not forsake anything a bodhisattva is to do; the power of being well established in the pāramitās, because they bring all the dharmas of the buddhas to accomplishment; and the power of being held in mind by the Tathāgata, because all modes and all-knowing wisdom itself stand present before them. This bodhisattva, attaining such powers of wisdom as these, is able to manifest every kind of thing that is to be done, and in none of those things is there any fault.
善住 — well established, or well abiding. It is the same 住 that names every ground in this chapter, doubled here into a quality of the powers themselves. The powers are not exercised; they are stood in.
The Ground's Own Names
The ten names are a compressed commentary. Read backwards from the last, they explain each other — nothing needs doing because it is already accomplished, and everything else about the ground follows from that.
「佛子！此菩薩智地名為：不動地，無能沮壞故；名為：不轉地，智慧無退故；名為：難得地，一切世間無能測故；名為：童真地，離一切過失故；名為：生地，隨樂自在故；名為：成地，更無所作故；名為：究竟地，智慧決定故；名為：變化地，隨願成就故；名為：力持地，他不能動故；名為：無功用地，先已成就故。
"Child of the Buddha! This bodhisattva's ground of wisdom is called the Immovable Ground, because nothing is able to thwart or ruin it; it is called the Ground of Non-Turning, because wisdom does not regress there; it is called the Ground Hard to Attain, because nothing in all the world can fathom it; it is called the Ground of Youthful Innocence, because it is apart from every fault; it is called the Ground of Generation, because there they are sovereignly free according to what they delight in; it is called the Ground of Completion, because there is nothing further to be done; it is called the Ultimate Ground, because wisdom there is decided; it is called the Ground of Transformation, because things are accomplished in accordance with vows; it is called the Ground of Sustaining Power, because others cannot move it; and it is called the Effortless Ground, because it has already been accomplished beforehand.
佛子！菩薩成就如是智慧，入佛境界，佛功德照，順佛威儀，佛境現前，常為如來之所護念，梵、釋、四王、金剛力士常隨侍衛，恒不捨離諸大三昧，能現無量諸身差別，於一一身有大勢力，報得神通三昧自在，隨有可化眾生之處示成正覺。佛子！菩薩如是入大乘會，獲大神通，放大光明，入無礙法界，知世界差別，示現一切諸大功德，隨意自在，善能通達前際、後際，普伏一切魔邪之道，深入如來所行境界，於無量國土修菩薩行，以能獲得不退轉法，是故說名：住不動地。
Child of the Buddha! A bodhisattva who accomplishes such wisdom as this enters the domain of the buddhas, is illumined by the buddhas' merits, accords with the buddhas' dignified bearing, and has the buddhas' domain standing present before them. They are constantly held in mind and guarded by the Tathāgata; Brahmā, Śakra, the Four Kings and the vajra-bearing warriors constantly attend and guard them; they never depart from the great samādhis; they are able to manifest measureless differentiations of body, and in each single body there is great and powerful force; by the fruit of their recompense they attain sovereign freedom in the spiritual penetrations and the samādhis; and wherever there are beings who can be transformed, they display the attaining of perfect awakening. Child of the Buddha! A bodhisattva in this way enters the assembly of the Great Vehicle, obtains the great spiritual penetrations, sends forth great radiance, enters the unobstructed dharma-realm, knows the differences among worlds, displays every kind of great merit, is sovereignly free according to their intent, and is well able to penetrate the prior limit and the later limit; they subdue everywhere all the paths of Māra and of deviance, enter deeply into the domain in which the Tathāgata moves, and cultivate bodhisattva practice in measureless lands; and because they are able to obtain the dharma of non-regression, they are therefore said to abide on the Immovable Ground.
名為：生地，隨樂自在故 — called the Ground of Generation, because there they are sovereignly free according to what they delight in. 生 here is not birth undergone but birth produced: the ground from which the manifested bodies of Part 459 come. It sits deliberately between the Ground of Youthful Innocence and the Ground of Completion, so that generation is placed before completion rather than after it.
善能通達前際、後際 — well able to penetrate the prior limit and the later limit. The two limits are the beginning and end of time, and the claim is not that the bodhisattva sees the whole of history but that neither limit remains opaque. This is the ground's version of a knowledge the sixth had only as an insight into conditions.
Part 461 Complete
This continues Acalā, the Immovable Ground, the eighth of the Ten Grounds, in fascicle thirty-eight. Part 462 gives the buddhas seen and served on this ground and the treasury of profound Dharma received from them, the simile of true gold made into a royal crown that no ornament of the ministers and people can equal, and the pāramitā of vows that predominates here, before the Great Brahmā King's station and the closing verse.