Whatever He Wishes, So It Is
Nine wishes are listed, and the sentence that closes them is the whole ninth ground in seven characters — whatever is thought of follows the mind, and there is nothing not obtained. Then the questions arrive, from everyone in a world at once, and are answered in one voice.
Nine Wishes on the Dharma-Seat
Each begins 或時心欲 — sometimes their mind wishes — and the list moves outward from one voice, through the body's pores, to every object formed and formless, to the flutes and drums of every world, and finally to the dust-motes of the elements.
此菩薩處於法座，欲以一音，令諸大眾皆得解了，即得解了；或時欲以種種音聲，令諸大眾皆得開悟；或時心欲放大光明，演說法門；或時心欲於其身上一一毛孔，皆演法音；或時心欲乃至三千大千世界所有一切形、無形物，皆悉演出妙法言音；或時心欲發一言音，周遍法界，悉令解了；或時心欲一切言音，皆作法音，恒住不滅；或時心欲一切世界簫、笛、鐘、鼓及以歌詠，一切樂聲皆演法音；或時心欲於一字中，一切法句言音差別，皆悉具足；或時心欲令不可說無量世界地、水、火、風四大聚中所有微塵，一一塵中皆悉演出不可說法門。如是所念，一切隨心，無不得者。
When this bodhisattva takes their place upon the Dharma-seat and wishes that with a single voice they might cause the whole great assembly to understand, at once it is understood. Sometimes they wish that with many kinds of voice they might cause the whole great assembly to be awakened; sometimes their mind wishes to send forth a great radiance and expound the gateways of Dharma; sometimes their mind wishes that from each single pore upon their body the sound of Dharma be spoken; sometimes their mind wishes that everything in a great trichiliocosm, formed and formless alike, send forth the speech and sound of the wondrous Dharma; sometimes their mind wishes to send out a single voice that would pervade the dharma-realm and cause it all to be understood; sometimes their mind wishes that every voice there is become the sound of Dharma, constantly abiding and never ceasing; sometimes their mind wishes that in all worlds the flutes and pipes, the bells and drums, and the singing — every sound of music — should speak forth the sound of Dharma; sometimes their mind wishes that within a single syllable every phrase of Dharma and every difference of speech and sound be completely contained; sometimes their mind wishes that in the ineffably many measureless worlds, of all the dust-motes within the aggregations of the four great elements of earth, water, fire and wind, each single mote should send forth ineffably many gateways of Dharma. Whatever is thus thought of follows the mind entirely, and there is nothing not obtained.
一切世界簫、笛、鐘、鼓及以歌詠 — in all worlds the flutes and pipes, the bells and drums, and the singing. The list is of ordinary instruments, not celestial ones; the wish is not that music be replaced by Dharma but that what people are already listening to should be it. This is the ninth ground's characteristic move, and it follows from having studied what people are actually like.
如是所念，一切隨心，無不得者 — whatever is thus thought of follows the mind entirely, and there is nothing not obtained. Set beside the eighth ground, where all effort had ceased, this is not the return of effort. The wish is not an exertion; it is simply the last place where anything still happens.
Every Question, and Nothing Forgotten
Two escalations follow, each in one thought — every being of a trichiliocosm asking a different question, then every being of ineffably many worlds; and then a hair-tip full of buddha-assemblies, each teaching to each being according to their natures and desires.
「佛子！此菩薩，假使三千大千世界所有眾生咸至其前，一一皆以無量言音而興問難，一一問難各各不同；菩薩於一念頃悉能領受，仍以一音普為解釋，令隨心樂，各得歡喜。如是乃至不可說世界所有眾生，一剎那間，一一皆以無量言音而興問難，一一問難各各不同；菩薩於一念頃悉能領受，亦以一音普為解釋，各隨心樂，令得歡喜。乃至不可說不可說世界滿中眾生，菩薩皆能隨其心樂、隨根、隨解而為說法，承佛神力廣作佛事，普為一切作所依怙。
"Child of the Buddha! Suppose that all the beings of a great trichiliocosm were to come before this bodhisattva, and that each of them, with measureless kinds of speech and sound, were to raise a difficult question, each question differing from every other; the bodhisattva in the space of a single thought would be able to take them all in, and would still explain them all with a single voice, causing each, according to what their mind delights in, to obtain gladness. And so likewise, were all the beings of ineffably many worlds, in a single instant, each with measureless kinds of speech and sound to raise a difficult question, each question differing from every other, the bodhisattva in the space of a single thought would be able to take them all in, and would explain them all with a single voice as well, causing each, according to what their mind delights in, to obtain gladness. And on up to beings filling ineffably ineffably many worlds — the bodhisattva is able to expound the Dharma for all of them according to what their minds delight in, according to their faculties and according to their understanding; and receiving the buddhas' spiritual power, they widely perform the buddhas' work and become for all beings that upon which they may rely.
佛子！此菩薩復更精進，成就智明。假使一毛端處有不可說世界微塵數諸佛眾會，一一眾會有不可說世界微塵數眾生，一一眾生有不可說世界微塵數性、欲，彼諸佛隨其性、欲各與法門；如一毛端處，一切法界處悉亦如是。如是所說無量法門，菩薩於一念中悉能領受，無有忘失。
Child of the Buddha! This bodhisattva applies still greater effort and accomplishes the light of wisdom. Suppose that at the tip of a single hair there were buddha-assemblies as numerous as the dust-motes of ineffably many worlds; and that in each single assembly there were beings as numerous as the dust-motes of ineffably many worlds; and that each single being had natures and desires as numerous as the dust-motes of ineffably many worlds; and that those buddhas each gave a gateway of Dharma according to those natures and desires — and that as at the tip of a single hair, so it was everywhere throughout the whole dharma-realm. All the measureless dharma-gateways so expounded, the bodhisattva is able in a single thought to take in entirely, without forgetting or losing any of them.
仍以一音普為解釋 — and would still explain them all with a single voice. 仍 carries the concession: the questions were each different, and the answer is nevertheless one. Compare the devas' verse in Part 464, where the bodhisattva answers like an echo. An echo also gives one response to many callers, and no one hears the wrong reply.
普為一切作所依怙 — becomes for all beings that upon which they may rely. 依怙 is the word a child uses of a parent. Every ground since the first has repeated the resolve to be 一切智智依止者, that upon which all-knowing wisdom relies; here, at last, the reliance being offered is other people's, and it is domestic rather than cosmic.
Part 469 Complete
This continues Sādhumatī, the Ground of Excellent Wisdom, the ninth of the Ten Grounds, in fascicle thirty-eight. Part 470 closes the ninth ground — day and night with no other thought than the buddhas' domain, the gold made into a wheel-turning king's crown, the Great Brahmā King of two thousand worlds whose light reaches the remotest dark, the pāramitā of power at its most surpassing, and the station and samādhis of this ground.