Lights That Awaken Wisdom, Giving, and Forbearance
The sequence of lights continues: nine more, each named for what it awakens and traced to the practice that produced it — wisdom that understands emptiness, generosity that dissolves stinginess, the precepts that cool a transgressor's own fever, forbearance amid violence, diligence against indolence, and stillness amid a scattered mind.
Nine More Lights
From wisdom and the emptiness of every dharma, through generosity, the precepts, forbearance, and diligence, to a stillness free of scattered mind and a wisdom that penetrates dependent origination — each light named, its awakening described, and its own cause named in turn.
「又放光明名具智，此光能覺一切眾，
令於一法一念中，悉解無量諸法門。
為諸眾生分別法，及以決了真實義，
善說法義無虧減，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名慧燈，此光能覺一切眾，
令知眾生性空寂，一切諸法無所有。
演說諸法空無主，如幻如焰水中月，
乃至猶如夢影像，是故得成此光明。
又放光名法自在，此光能覺一切眾，
令得無盡陀羅尼，悉持一切諸佛法。
恭敬供養持法者，給侍守護諸賢聖，
以種種法施眾生，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名能捨，此光覺悟慳眾生，
令知財寶悉非常，恒樂惠施心無著。
慳心難調而能調，解財如夢如浮雲，
增長惠施清淨心，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名除熱，此光能覺毀禁者，
普使受持清淨戒，發心願證無師道。
勸引眾生受持戒，十善業道悉清淨，
又令發向菩提心，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名忍嚴，此光覺悟瞋恚者，
令彼除瞋離我慢，常樂忍辱柔和法。
眾生暴惡難可忍，為菩提故心不動，
常樂稱揚忍功德，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名勇猛，此光覺悟嬾墮者，
令彼常於三寶中，恭敬供養無疲厭。
若彼常於三寶中，恭敬供養無疲厭，
則能超出四魔境，速成無上佛菩提。
勸化眾生令進策，常勤供養於三寶，
法欲滅時專守護，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名寂靜，此光能覺亂意者，
令其遠離貪恚癡，心不動搖而正定。
捨離一切惡知識，無義談說雜染行，
讚歎禪定阿蘭若，是故得成此光明。
又放光明名慧嚴，此光覺悟愚迷者，
令其證諦解緣起，諸根智慧悉通達。
若能證諦解緣起，諸根智慧悉通達，
則得日燈三昧法，智慧光明成佛果。
國財及己皆能捨，為菩提故求正法，
聞已專勤為眾說，是故得成此光明。」
"He further radiates a light named 'Endowed with Wisdom'; this light is able to awaken the whole multitude, causing them, within a single dharma and a single thought, to understand entirely the immeasurable gates of the Dharma.
Distinguishing the Dharma for the sake of every living being, and resolving its true and real meaning decisively, skillfully expounding the Dharma's own meaning without any deficiency at all — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Lamp of Wisdom'; this light is able to awaken the whole multitude, causing them to know that the nature of living beings is empty and tranquil, and that every dharma there is has nothing at all to it.
Expounding that every dharma is empty and without any master, like an illusion, like a flickering flame, like the moon reflected in water, even down to being just like a dream, a shadow, or a reflected image — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Sovereignty of Dharma'; this light is able to awaken the whole multitude, causing them to attain the inexhaustible dhāraṇī, holding entirely every one of the Buddha's own dharmas.
Reverently making offering to those who uphold the Dharma, attending upon and protecting every worthy and sage, and giving every kind of Dharma-gift to living beings — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Able to Give Up'; this light awakens living beings who are stingy, causing them to know that wealth and treasure are entirely impermanent, forever delighting in generous giving with a mind free of attachment.
A stingy mind, hard to tame, is thereby tamed; understanding wealth to be like a dream, like a drifting cloud, increasing and growing a pure mind of generous giving — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Removing Fever'; this light is able to awaken those who transgress the precepts, universally causing them to receive and uphold the pure precepts, giving rise to the resolve and the vow to realize the path that needs no teacher.
Urging and guiding living beings to receive and uphold the precepts, so that the ten wholesome courses of action become entirely pure, and further causing them to give rise to the mind directed toward bodhi — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Adornment of Forbearance'; this light awakens those given to anger and hatred, causing them to remove their anger and leave behind self-conceit, forever delighting in the gentle Dharma of forbearance.
Though living beings are violent and evil, hard to bear with, for the sake of bodhi his own mind remains unmoved, forever delighting in extolling the merit of forbearance — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Valiant'; this light awakens the indolent and slothful, causing them to forever, within the Three Jewels, revere and make offering without any weariness or discontent.
If they forever, within the Three Jewels, revere and make offering without any weariness or discontent, they are thereby able to transcend the domain of the four māras, swiftly accomplishing the Buddha's own unsurpassed bodhi.
Urging and transforming living beings to press forward, forever diligently making offering to the Three Jewels, single-mindedly guarding and protecting the Dharma when it is about to disappear — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Tranquility'; this light is able to awaken those of scattered mind, causing them to stay far removed from greed, hatred, and delusion, their minds unmoving and unwavering, in true concentration.
Giving up and leaving behind every evil companion, and every meaningless conversation and defiled conduct, praising meditative concentration and forest dwelling — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained.
He further radiates a light named 'Wisdom Adornment'; this light awakens the foolish and deluded, causing them to realize the truths and understand dependent origination, every one of their faculties and their wisdom entirely penetrating.
If one is able to realize the truths and understand dependent origination, every one of one's faculties and one's wisdom entirely penetrating, one thereby attains the Dharma of the sun-lamp samādhi, and, through the light of wisdom, accomplishes the fruit of buddhahood.
Giving up both his own kingdom and wealth and his very self, seeking the true Dharma for the sake of bodhi, and, having heard it, diligently and single-mindedly proclaiming it for the sake of the multitude — and it is for this reason that this light comes to be attained."
Taken together with Part 55's opening eight, these nine lights complete a set that maps unusually cleanly onto the six pāramitās and the practices that surround them: generosity ("Able to Give Up"), the precepts ("Removing Fever"), forbearance ("Adornment of Forbearance"), diligence ("Valiant"), meditative concentration ("Tranquility"), and wisdom ("Endowed with Wisdom," "Lamp of Wisdom," "Wisdom Adornment"), framed by lights of devotion and giving up the household life. The chain of causation from two fascicles ago is being re-walked here at a finer resolution — not one continuous ladder this time, but many separate, self-contained loops, each showing a single virtue's own light circling back to name the exact practice that produced it.
Part 56 Complete
This closes Part 56. The sequence of lights continues in Part 57 with lights that reach beings caught in fear, poverty, sickness, and moral confusion — extending compassion's own light toward those in the most acute forms of need.