The Vast Wisdom of Every Buddha
A list of what the samādhi grants gives way to a claim about honesty — the bodhisattva has no word or deed that differs from what he truly is — proven by five similes: a vajra, true gold, the sun, Mount Sumeru, the great earth, each one named for a quality it never departs from.
The Vast Wisdom of Every Buddha
The samādhi's fruits are named first, then the reason they follow from how the bodhisattva actually practices.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以此三昧，得一切佛廣大智，得巧說一切廣大法自在辯才，得一切世中最為殊勝清淨無畏法，得入一切三昧智，得一切菩薩善巧方便，得一切法光明門，到安慰一切世間法彼岸，知一切眾生時、非時，照十方世界一切處，令一切眾生得勝智，作一切世間無上師，安住一切諸功德，開示一切眾生清淨三昧，令入最上智。
Sons of the Buddha! By means of this samādhi, the bodhisattva-mahāsattva attains the vast wisdom of all buddhas, attains the sovereign eloquence that skillfully expounds every vast dharma, attains the most supreme, pure, and fearless dharma found anywhere in the world, attains the wisdom that enters every samādhi, attains every bodhisattva's skillful means, attains the gateway of light of every dharma, and reaches the far shore of the dharma that comforts the whole world; he knows the right time and the wrong time for all beings, illuminates every place in the worlds of the ten directions, causes all beings to attain supreme wisdom, becomes the unsurpassed teacher of the whole world, abides securely in every merit, and reveals to all beings the pure samādhi, causing them to enter the highest wisdom.
何以故？菩薩摩訶薩如是修行，則利益眾生，則增長大悲，則親近善知識，則見一切佛，則了一切法，則詣一切剎，則入一切方，則入一切世，則悟一切法平等性，則知一切佛平等性，則住一切智平等性。於此法中，作如是業，不作餘業；住未足心，住不散亂心，住專一心，住勤修心，住決定心，住不變異心；如是思惟，如是作業，如是究竟。
Why is this so? Because the bodhisattva-mahāsattva, practicing in this way, benefits beings, increases great compassion, draws near to good spiritual friends, sees all buddhas, comprehends all dharmas, goes to every land, enters every direction, enters every world, awakens to the equal nature of all dharmas, knows the equal nature of all buddhas, and abides in the equal nature of all-knowing wisdom. Within this dharma he does deeds such as these, and no others; he abides in a mind never satisfied, an undistracted mind, a single-pointed mind, a diligently cultivating mind, a decisive mind, a mind that never changes or alters — contemplating in this way, acting in this way, reaching the ultimate in this way.
住未足心 — abiding in a mind never satisfied. Placed first among the six qualities of mind, ahead of an undistracted mind and a decisive mind. Even at the level of attainment this part has been describing since Part 539's ten gifts, the practice does not conclude in a mind that considers itself finished.
Five Things That Never Change Their Name
The claim that his word and deed never differ from what he is gets tested against five ordinary things, each one named for exactly the quality it can never lose without ceasing to be itself.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩無異語、異作，有如語、如作。何以故？譬如金剛，以不可壞而得其名，終無有時離於不壞；菩薩摩訶薩亦復如是，以諸行法而得其名，終無有時離諸行法。譬如真金，以有妙色而得其名，終無有時離於妙色；菩薩摩訶薩亦復如是，以諸善業而得其名，終無有時離諸善業。譬如日天子，以光明輪而得其名，終無有時離光明輪；菩薩摩訶薩亦復如是，以智慧光而得其名，終無有時離智慧光。
Sons of the Buddha! The bodhisattva-mahāsattva has no word or deed that differs from what he truly is — his every word and deed is simply as it is. Why is this so? It is like the vajra, which gets its name from being indestructible, and never at any time departs from being indestructible; the bodhisattva-mahāsattva is likewise: he gets his name from the dharmas of practice, and never at any time departs from the dharmas of practice. It is like true gold, which gets its name from having a wondrous color, and never at any time departs from that wondrous color; the bodhisattva-mahāsattva is likewise: he gets his name from wholesome deeds, and never at any time departs from wholesome deeds. It is like the sun-deity, who gets his name from his wheel of light, and never at any time departs from that wheel of light; the bodhisattva-mahāsattva is likewise: he gets his name from the light of wisdom, and never at any time departs from the light of wisdom.
譬如須彌山王，以四寶峯處於大海，逈然高出而得其名，終無有時捨離四峯；菩薩摩訶薩亦復如是，以諸善根處在於世，逈然高出而得其名，終無有時捨離善根。譬如大地，以持一切而得其名，終無有時捨離能持；菩薩摩訶薩亦復如是，以度一切而得其名，終無有時捨離大悲。
It is like Sumeru, king of mountains, who gets his name from his four jeweled peaks rising loftily out of the great ocean, and never at any time abandons those four peaks; the bodhisattva-mahāsattva is likewise: he gets his name from his wholesome roots, rising loftily amid the world, and never at any time abandons his wholesome roots. It is like the great earth, which gets its name from upholding everything, and never at any time abandons that power to uphold; the bodhisattva-mahāsattva is likewise: he gets his name from delivering everyone, and never at any time abandons his great compassion.
無異語、異作，有如語、如作 — no word or deed that differs; only word-as-it-is and deed-as-it-is. 如, "as it is" or "thus," is the same character that names this site — 如意, as the mind wishes — and the same one repeated eleven times in Part 538's closing list, 如是, "in this way." Here it is offered as a description of honesty itself: nothing between what a person is and what a person says.
以度一切而得其名，終無有時捨離大悲 — he gets his name from delivering everyone, and never at any time abandons his great compassion. The fifth simile quietly breaks its own pattern: earth is named for holding things up, but the bodhisattva's parallel act is named 大悲, great compassion, not holding. The pairing insists the two amount to the same thing.
Part 541 Complete
This continues chapter twenty-seven, 十定品, The Ten Concentrations, in fascicle forty-three. Part 542 continues the run of similes — the ocean that gets its name from holding every water within it, a general who gets his from mastery of the art of war, a wheel-turning king who guards his subjects from untimely death — carrying the same pattern of a name and the quality it can never be parted from.