A Hair-Tip's Lands, Once More
The verses return to the hair-tip of Part 570, now stating outright what the earlier nesting only implied: unspeakable lands gather there without the hair-tip growing any larger, and each land keeps its own form without disturbing the rest. The image then narrows further, to a single pore, and opens into the longest litany yet — thirty-nine clauses of what cannot be told about entering it.
Without Growing Any Larger
The hair-tip from Part 570 returns, and the verses now say directly what the nesting there only showed: the lands gathered within it do not crowd it, and it does not expand to hold them.
所有神變不可說，所有示現不可說，於中時劫不可說，於中差別不可說，菩薩悉能分別說，諸明算者莫能辨。
一毛端處大小剎，雜染清淨麁細剎，如是一切不可說，一一明了可分別。
以一國土碎為塵，其塵無量不可說，如是塵數無邊剎，俱來共集一毛端。
此諸國土不可說，共集毛端無迫隘，不使毛端有增大，而彼國土俱來集。
於中所有諸國土，形相如本無雜亂，如一國土不亂餘，一切國土皆如是。
虛空境界無邊際，悉布毛端使充滿，如是毛端諸國土，菩薩一念皆能說。
於一微細毛孔中，不可說剎次第入，毛孔能受彼諸剎，諸剎不能遍毛孔。
入時劫數不可說，受時劫數不可說，於此行列安住時，一切諸劫無能說。
Every spiritual transformation is unspeakable; every manifestation is unspeakable; the kalpas within them are unspeakable; the distinctions within them are unspeakable — yet the bodhisattva is able to distinguish and speak of them all, though no reckoner skilled in numbers could ever tell them apart.
Within a single hair-tip are lands both great and small, lands defiled and pure, lands coarse and subtle — all of them unspeakable, yet each and every one clearly known and distinguished.
When a single land is ground into dust, that dust is measureless and unspeakable; and lands as numerous as those boundless motes of dust all come together, gathered within a single hair-tip.
These unspeakable lands, gathered together within the hair-tip, crowd it not at all; the hair-tip is not made to grow any larger, and yet those lands all come together there.
Every land found within it keeps its original form, without any confusion; as one land does not disturb the rest, so it is with every land.
The realm of empty space has no boundary or edge, yet it is entirely spread through the hair-tip, filling it completely; and every land within that hair-tip, the bodhisattva can speak of in a single thought-moment.
Within a single fine pore, unspeakable lands enter one after another; the pore is able to receive all those lands, yet those lands are unable to fill the pore.
The kalpas spent entering are unspeakable; the kalpas spent receiving are unspeakable; and while abiding there in that ranked array, no one could ever tell the full number of kalpas.
不使毛端有增大，而彼國土俱來集 — the hair-tip is not made to grow any larger, and yet those lands all come together there. This is the detail that separates this passage from ordinary hyperbole about very large numbers: the container is explicitly said not to expand. The lands are not miniaturized to fit, and the hair-tip is not enlarged to hold them — both keep their own measure, and containment happens anyway.
What Cannot Be Told of Entering
The image narrows to a single fine pore. What follows is the longest litany so far in this chapter — thirty-nine clauses, each naming one more thing about that entering which language cannot reach.
如是攝受安住已，所有境界不可說，入時方便不可說，入已所作不可說，意根明了不可說，遊歷諸方不可說，勇猛精進不可說，自在神變不可說，所有思惟不可說，所有大願不可說，所有境界不可說，一切通達不可說，身業清淨不可說，語業清淨不可說，意業清淨不可說，信解清淨不可說，妙智清淨不可說，妙慧清淨不可說，了諸實相不可說，斷諸疑惑不可說，出離生死不可說，超昇正位不可說，甚深三昧不可說，了達一切不可說，一切眾生不可說，一切佛剎不可說，知眾生身不可說，知其心樂不可說，知其業果不可說，知其意解不可說，知其品類不可說，知其種性不可說，知其受身不可說，知其生處不可說，知其正生不可說，知其生已不可說，知其解了不可說，知其趣向不可說，知其言語不可說，知其作業不可說。
Having thus been received and abided there, every sphere of experience is unspeakable; the skillful means of entering is unspeakable; what is done once having entered is unspeakable; the clarity of the mind faculty is unspeakable; journeying through every direction is unspeakable; valiant diligence is unspeakable; mastery over spiritual transformation is unspeakable; every thought is unspeakable; every great vow is unspeakable; every sphere of experience is unspeakable; every thorough penetration is unspeakable; the purity of bodily action is unspeakable; the purity of verbal action is unspeakable; the purity of mental action is unspeakable; the purity of faith and understanding is unspeakable; the purity of wondrous wisdom is unspeakable; the purity of wondrous insight is unspeakable; comprehending true reality is unspeakable; cutting off every doubt is unspeakable; departing from birth and death is unspeakable; ascending to the right position is unspeakable; the profound samādhi is unspeakable; thoroughly comprehending everything is unspeakable; every sentient being is unspeakable; every buddha-land is unspeakable; knowing the bodies of beings is unspeakable; knowing their mental delights is unspeakable; knowing their karmic fruits is unspeakable; knowing their mental understanding is unspeakable; knowing their categories is unspeakable; knowing their spiritual natures is unspeakable; knowing the bodies they receive is unspeakable; knowing their places of birth is unspeakable; knowing them in the very moment of birth is unspeakable; knowing them once already born is unspeakable; knowing their comprehension is unspeakable; knowing their destinies is unspeakable; knowing their language is unspeakable; and knowing their deeds is unspeakable.
知眾生身不可說，知其心樂不可說，知其業果不可說 — knowing the bodies of beings is unspeakable; knowing their mental delights is unspeakable; knowing their karmic fruits is unspeakable. The second half of this litany shifts from what a bodhisattva does to what a bodhisattva knows, working through nearly a dozen categories of knowledge about beings — body, disposition, karma, understanding, category, nature, birth, destiny, language, deeds — each one still unspeakable. The list does not conclude with a summary; it simply stops, on knowledge of a being's deeds, as abruptly as it began.
Part 572 Complete
This continues chapter thirty, 阿僧祇品, in fascicle forty-five. Part 573 opens an even longer litany — the bodhisattva's great compassion described across well over a hundred unspeakable clauses.