Ten Great Treasuries of Dharma
A summary of attainments leads into ten treasuries the bodhisattva's mind constantly abides in — recollection, compassion, the equal bodhi of every buddha — and closes on a plain admission: though he abides in ultimate reality, he still speaks the way the world speaks.
Ten Great Treasuries of Dharma
Before naming the treasuries themselves, the text gathers everything the bodhisattva has already attained into one sentence — wisdom, spiritual power, liberation, freedom — as if clearing space for what comes next.
佛子！此菩薩摩訶薩，獲如是智，證如是法，於如是法審住明見；得如是神力，住如是境界，現如是神變，起如是神通；常安住大悲，常利益眾生，開示眾生安隱正道，建立福智大光明幢；證不思議解脫，住一切智解脫，到諸佛解脫彼岸，學不思議解脫方便門已得成就，入法界差別門無有錯亂，於普賢不可說不可說三昧遊戲自在，住師子奮迅智心意無礙。
Sons of the Buddha! This bodhisattva-mahāsattva has obtained such wisdom, realized such dharma, and abides securely and with discerning clarity in such dharma; has attained such spiritual power, abides in such a realm, manifests such spiritual transformation, and gives rise to such spiritual faculties; constantly abiding in great compassion, constantly benefiting beings, revealing to them the tranquil and true path, establishing the great banner of light of merit and wisdom; he realizes inconceivable liberation, abides in the liberation of all-knowing wisdom, and reaches the far shore of the buddhas' own liberation; he has already accomplished the study of the skillful gateways of inconceivable liberation, enters the distinct gateways of the dharma-realm without confusion, sports freely and sovereignly amid Samantabhadra's ineffably ineffable samādhis, and abides in the wisdom of the lion's vigorous stride, his mind unobstructed.
其心恒住十大法藏。何者為十？所謂：住憶念一切諸佛，住憶念一切佛法，住調伏一切眾生大悲，住示現不思議清淨國土智，住深入諸佛境界決定解，住去、來、現在一切佛平等相菩提，住無礙無著際，住一切法無相性，住去、來、現在一切佛平等善根，住去、來、現在一切如來法界無差別身、語、意業先導智，住觀察三世一切諸佛受生、出家、詣道場、成正覺、轉法輪、般涅槃悉入剎那際。佛子！此十大法藏廣大無量，不可數、不可稱、不可思、不可說、無窮盡、難忍受，一切世智無能稱述。
His mind constantly abides in ten great treasuries of dharma. What are these ten? They are: abiding in the mindful recollection of all buddhas; abiding in the mindful recollection of all buddha-dharmas; abiding in the great compassion that tames all beings; abiding in the wisdom that manifests inconceivable, pure lands; abiding in the decisive understanding that penetrates deeply into the buddhas' own realm; abiding in the bodhi of equal marks shared by all buddhas of the past, future, and present; abiding at the limit that is unobstructed and unattached; abiding in the signless nature of all dharmas; abiding in the equal wholesome roots of all buddhas of the past, future, and present; abiding in the wisdom that leads the undifferentiated bodily, verbal, and mental deeds of all tathāgatas of the past, future, and present throughout the dharma-realm; and abiding in the contemplation by which the birth, going-forth, arrival at the seat of awakening, attainment of perfect enlightenment, turning of the Dharma-wheel, and entry into parinirvāṇa of all buddhas of the three times all enter within a single instant. Sons of the Buddha! These ten great treasuries of dharma are vast and immeasurable — uncountable, immeasurable, inconceivable, ineffable, inexhaustible, hard to bear — and no worldly wisdom is able to describe them fully.
住師子奮迅智 — abiding in the wisdom of the lion's vigorous stride. Part 492 uses the same phrase, 師子奮迅, for the samādhi that keeps Samantabhadra himself unseen even by bodhisattvas searching directly for him. Here it names a quality of mind rather than a hiding place, but the borrowed image is the same one.
十大法藏…何者為十 — ten great treasuries of dharma… what are these ten? Counted against the list that follows, the enumeration that CBETA's text gives runs to eleven items rather than ten. This translation keeps the count exactly as the source presents it rather than silently merging two of the eleven to make the arithmetic come out even.
Following Worldly Speech
The passage closes where Part 534's forty-one paradoxes ended — on a bodhisattva who does not need his own attainment cancelled by the way he still speaks.
「佛子！此菩薩摩訶薩已到普賢諸行彼岸，證清淨法，志力廣大，開示眾生無量善根，增長菩薩一切勢力，於念念頃滿足菩薩一切功德，成就菩薩一切諸行，得一切佛陀羅尼法，受持一切諸佛所說；雖常安住真如實際，而隨一切世俗言說，示現調伏一切眾生。何以故？菩薩摩訶薩住此三昧，法如是故。
Sons of the Buddha! This bodhisattva-mahāsattva has already reached the far shore of every practice of Samantabhadra, realizing pure dharmas, his resolve and strength vast; he reveals measureless wholesome roots to beings, increases every bodhisattva power, in thought after thought fulfills every bodhisattva merit, accomplishes every bodhisattva practice, attains every buddha's dhāraṇī-dharma, and upholds all that every buddha has spoken. Though he constantly abides in true suchness and ultimate reality, he nevertheless follows every worldly manner of speech, manifesting the taming of all beings. Why is this so? Because when the bodhisattva-mahāsattva abides in this samādhi, the dharma is simply such.
法如是故 — because the dharma is simply such. The reason given for following worldly speech while abiding in ultimate reality is no reason at all in the ordinary sense — not a further fact that explains the paradox away, but a statement that this is simply the shape reality takes. Part 534 gave forty-one versions of the same non-explanation; this is the shortest one yet.
Part 540 Complete
This continues chapter twenty-seven, 十定品, The Ten Concentrations, in fascicle forty-three. Part 541 continues with what this samādhi grants the bodhisattva — vast wisdom of every buddha, skillful eloquence, entry into every samādhi — building toward the close of the tenth and final of the Ten Concentrations.