Chapter Thirty Concludes
The chapter's final six verses return one more time to the hair-tip and the mote of dust, then close on a single claim: that the bodhisattva sees every distinction among lands, beings, and buddhas, across all three times, with nothing left unclear.
Seeing All Three Times
The chapter's last verses return once more to its two central images — a hair-tip, a mote of dust — before ending on the bodhisattva's unobstructed sight of every distinction across all three times.
於法非行非不行,入諸境界不可說,不可稱說諸大劫,恒遊十方不可說。
方便智慧不可說,真實智慧不可說,神通智慧不可說,念念示現不可說。
於不可說諸佛法,一一了知不可說,能於一時證菩提,或種種時而證入。
毛端佛剎不可說,塵中佛剎不可說,如是佛剎皆往詣,見諸如來不可說。
通達一實不可說,善入佛種不可說,諸佛國土不可說,悉能往詣成菩提。
國土眾生及諸佛,體性差別不可說,如是三世無有邊,菩薩一切皆明見。」。
With regard to dharma, neither practicing nor not practicing, entering every sphere of experience is unspeakable; through kalpas beyond all reckoning, constantly journeying through the ten directions is unspeakable.
Skillful wisdom is unspeakable; true wisdom is unspeakable; the wisdom of spiritual powers is unspeakable; manifesting in thought after thought is unspeakable.
Within unspeakable buddha-dharmas, comprehending each and every one is unspeakable; able to attain bodhi in a single moment, or to attain entry at every manner of different time.
Buddha-lands upon a hair-tip are unspeakable; buddha-lands within a mote of dust are unspeakable; journeying to every one of these buddha-lands, seeing every tathāgata there is unspeakable.
Thoroughly penetrating the single true reality is unspeakable; skillfully entering the buddha-lineage is unspeakable; every buddha's land is unspeakable, and one is entirely able to journey there and accomplish bodhi.
Lands, beings, and every buddha — the distinctions of their own-nature are unspeakable; the three times are thus without any boundary, and the bodhisattva clearly sees them all.
如是三世無有邊,菩薩一切皆明見 — the three times are thus without any boundary, and the bodhisattva clearly sees them all. This closes chapter thirty, 阿僧祇品, opened in Part 567 with the Bodhisattva Mind King's question about how large a number could be named. The chapter answers that question twice over — once with a ladder of a hundred and twenty-three number-names, and once with page after page of what those names cannot reach — before ending on a claim that exceeds counting altogether: not a bigger number, but unobstructed sight.
Part 576 Complete — Chapter Thirty Complete
This completes chapter thirty, 阿僧祇品, of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, in fascicle forty-five. Part 577 opens chapter thirty-one, 壽量品, on the relative length of a single day and night across a chain of buddha-lands.