Mastery Completes, Perfect Buddha-Dharma Begins
The ten kinds of mastery close with three of the strangest items yet — an eye performing an ear's work, a single pore holding beings as vast as buddha-lands, and countless buddhas awakening at once without the slightest exertion of effort. A new list then opens on perfect buddha-dharma, ending, as so many lists in this chapter do, on a buddha's final entry into nirvāṇa.
An Eye That Hears, a Pore That Holds a World
The eighth kind of mastery lets each sense perform the next sense's work in turn; the ninth folds beings as large as buddha-lands into a single pore without crowding; the tenth ends the list on buddhas appearing everywhere at once, requiring no effort at all.
一切諸佛能以眼處作耳處佛事，能以耳處作鼻處佛事，能以鼻處作舌處佛事，能以舌處作身處佛事，能以身處作意處佛事，能以意處於一切世界中住世、出世間種種境界，一一境界中能作無量廣大佛事，是為諸佛第八自在法。一切諸佛，其身毛孔一一能容一切眾生，一一眾生其身悉與不可說諸佛剎等而無迫隘，一一眾生步步能過無數世界，如是展轉盡無數劫，悉見諸佛出現於世，教化眾生，轉淨法輪，開示過去、未來、現在不可說法；盡虛空界一切眾生諸趣受身，威儀、往來及其所受種種樂具皆悉具足，而於其中無所障礙，是為諸佛第九自在法。一切諸佛於一念頃現一切世界微塵數佛，一一佛皆於一切法界眾妙蓮華廣大莊嚴世界蓮華藏師子座上成等正覺，示現諸佛自在神力；如於眾妙蓮華廣大莊嚴世界，如是於一切法界中不可說不可說種種莊嚴、種種境界、種種形相、種種示現、種種劫數清淨世界；如於一念，如是於無量無邊阿僧祇劫一切念中，一念一切現，一念無量住，而未曾用少方便力，是為諸佛第十自在法。
Every buddha is able to use the eye's sphere to perform the ear's buddha-work, able to use the ear's sphere to perform the nose's buddha-work, able to use the nose's sphere to perform the tongue's buddha-work, able to use the tongue's sphere to perform the body's buddha-work, able to use the body's sphere to perform the mind's buddha-work, and able, through the mind's sphere, to abide amid every manner of worldly and world-transcending state throughout every world, carrying out measureless, vast buddha-work within each and every one of those states — this is the buddhas' eighth kind of mastery. Every buddha's body has pores each and every one of which is able to hold every sentient being; every sentient being's body is entirely equal in extent to unspeakable buddha-lands, without any crowding at all; and every sentient being is able, step by step, to pass through countless worlds, and unfolding onward in this way through countless kalpas, entirely sees every buddha appearing in the world, teaching and transforming beings, turning the pure dharma-wheel, and disclosing the unspeakable dharma of the past, future, and present; throughout the whole of empty space, every sentient being, in whatever destiny they take on a body, is entirely provided with dignified bearing, coming and going, and every manner of enjoyment they receive, all without the slightest obstruction — this is the buddhas' ninth kind of mastery. Every buddha, within a single thought-moment, manifests as many buddhas as there are motes of dust in every world, and each and every one of those buddhas attains perfect enlightenment upon a lion-throne of a lotus-treasury within a vast, magnificently adorned world of every wondrous lotus flower throughout the entire dharma-realm, displaying the buddhas' own mastery and spiritual power; and just as it is within that vast, magnificently adorned world of wondrous lotus flowers, so it is throughout the entire dharma-realm, in unspeakable, unspeakable manners of adornment, manners of sphere, manners of form, manners of manifestation, and manners of pure world across every kalpa-number; and just as it is within a single thought-moment, so it is within every thought throughout measureless, boundless asaṃkhyeya kalpas — within one thought, everything appears; within one thought, measureless abidings occur — and never once is even the slightest exertion of skillful means required — this is the buddhas' tenth kind of mastery.
而未曾用少方便力 — and never once is even the slightest exertion of skillful means required. The tenth mastery closes the list on an odd emphasis: not on the scale of what happens — countless buddhas, endless kalpas, worlds without number — but on the complete absence of effort behind it. Every mastery before this one described an ability; this one insists that the ability costs nothing to use.
Perfect Buddha-Dharma Begins
A new list opens on a buddha's perfection across body, wisdom, land, and merit, and closes, as several lists in this chapter do, on the fact that every buddha eventually displays entry into nirvāṇa.
「佛子！諸佛世尊有十種無量不思議圓滿佛法。何等為十？所謂：一切諸佛一一淨相皆具百福；一切諸佛皆悉成就一切佛法；一切諸佛皆悉成就一切善根；一切諸佛皆悉成就一切功德；一切諸佛皆能教化一切眾生；一切諸佛皆悉能為眾生作主；一切諸佛皆悉成就清淨佛剎；一切諸佛皆悉成就一切智智；一切諸佛皆悉成就色身相好，見者獲益，功不唐捐；一切諸佛皆具諸佛平等正法；一切諸佛作佛事已，莫不示現入於涅槃。是為十。
"Sons of the Buddha! The buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, have ten kinds of measureless, inconceivable, perfect buddha-dharma. What are these ten? They are: every buddha's every single pure mark is entirely endowed with a hundred kinds of merit; every buddha entirely accomplishes every buddha-dharma; every buddha entirely accomplishes every wholesome root; every buddha entirely accomplishes every merit; every buddha is able to teach and transform every sentient being; every buddha is entirely able to serve as a refuge for sentient beings; every buddha entirely accomplishes a pure buddha-land; every buddha entirely accomplishes all-knowing wisdom; every buddha entirely accomplishes a physical body with its excellent marks, so that whoever sees it gains benefit and no effort is ever wasted; every buddha is entirely endowed with the equal, true dharma of every buddha; and every buddha, having carried out buddha-work, invariably displays entry into nirvāṇa. These are the ten.
Part 590 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-three, 佛不思議法品, in fascicle forty-six. Part 591 opens the chapter's final and longest list, ten kinds of skillful means.