Every World Within a Single Mote of Dust
Having reached the most excellent ground through practice, the bodhisattva's vision turns to a scale that could unsettle any listener — every world contained within a single mote of dust, every mote of dust containing every world in turn — before surveying how lands differ in purity, and how measureless lands are nonetheless known as one.
A Vision to Unsettle the Mind
The verse warns its own listeners before it makes its claim: seeing every world within a single mote of dust could drive an unprepared mind to madness — and then makes the claim regardless, in both directions at once.
菩薩如是行，究竟普賢道，出生淨智日，普照於法界。
未來世諸劫，國土不可說，一念悉了知，於彼無分別。
行者能趣入，如是最勝地，此諸菩薩法，我當說少分。
智慧無邊際，通達佛境界，一切皆善入，所行不退轉。
具足普賢慧，成滿普賢願，入於無等智，我當說彼行。
於一微塵中，悉見諸世界，眾生若聞者，迷亂心發狂。
如於一微塵，一切塵亦然，世界悉入中，如是不思議。
一一塵中有，十方三世法，趣剎皆無量，悉能分別知。
一一塵中有，無量種佛剎，種種皆無量，於一靡不知。
The bodhisattva, practicing thus, reaches the ultimate path of Samantabhadra; giving rise to the sun of pure wisdom, it universally illuminates the dharma-realm.
The kalpas of the future age, and the unspeakable lands within them, are all entirely known within a single thought, without any discrimination toward them.
One who practices is able to enter this most excellent ground; of this bodhisattva dharma, I shall tell but a small portion.
Wisdom without any boundary, penetrating a buddha's own realm, entering everything skillfully, their practice never retreating.
Endowed with the wisdom of Samantabhadra, having fulfilled the vow of Samantabhadra, entering into peerless wisdom — I shall now tell of that practice.
Within a single mote of dust, every world is entirely seen; should sentient beings hear of this, their minds would be thrown into confusion and madness.
Just as with a single mote of dust, so too is it with every mote of dust; every world entirely enters within it — inconceivable is this.
Within each and every mote of dust there is the dharma of the ten directions and the three times; the destinies and lands are all measureless, yet all can be distinctly known.
Within each and every mote of dust there are measureless kinds of buddha-lands, every kind of them measureless, yet within a single one there is nothing left unknown.
法界中所有，種種諸異相，趣類各差別，悉能分別知。
深入微細智，分別諸世界，一切劫成壞，悉能明了說。
知諸劫修短，三世即一念，眾行同不同，悉能分別知。
深入諸世界，廣大非廣大，一身無量剎，一剎無量身。
十方中所有，異類諸世界，廣大無量相，一切悉能知。
一切三世中，無量諸國土，具足甚深智，悉了彼成敗。
十方諸世界，有成或有壞，如是不可說，賢德悉深了。
或有諸國土，種種地嚴飾；諸趣亦復然，斯由業清淨。
或有諸世界，無量種雜染；斯由眾生感，一切如其行。
無量無邊剎，了知即一剎，如是入諸剎，其數不可知。
一切諸世界，悉入一剎中，世界不為一，亦復無雜亂。
世界有仰覆，或高或復下，皆是眾生想，悉能分別知。
廣博諸世界，無量無有邊，知種種是一，知一是種種。
普賢諸佛子，能以普賢智，了知諸剎數，其數無邊際。
Everything that exists within the dharma-realm, every manner of differing form, every destiny and kind each distinct — all of it can be distinctly known.
Entering deeply into subtle wisdom, distinguishing every world, the coming-into-being and dissolution of every kalpa can all be clearly told.
Knowing whether kalpas are long or short, that the three times are but a single thought, and whether the multitude of practices are the same or different — all of it can be distinctly known.
Entering deeply into every world, whether vast or not vast, a single body contains measureless lands, and a single land contains measureless bodies.
Every differing kind of world that exists throughout the ten directions, however vast or measureless its form, can all be entirely known.
Within every one of the three times, throughout measureless lands, being endowed with profound wisdom, one fully comprehends their coming-into-being and their ruin.
The worlds of the ten directions, some coming into being and some falling into ruin — unspeakable as this is, the worthy and virtuous fully understand it in depth.
There are lands adorned with every manner of ground, and their destinies likewise so — this arises from the purity of their karma.
There are worlds of measureless kinds of defilement — this arises from what sentient beings themselves have brought about, everything according to their own conduct.
Measureless, boundless lands are known to be a single land; entering every land in this way, their number cannot be known.
Every world entirely enters within a single land, yet the worlds do not become one, nor is there any confusion among them.
Worlds exist facing upward or overturned, some high and some low again — all of this is merely the conception of sentient beings, yet all of it can be distinctly known.
The vast and expansive worlds are measureless and without limit; knowing their every kind to be one, and knowing the one to be every kind.
The sons of the Buddha who follow Samantabhadra, able through the wisdom of Samantabhadra, fully comprehend the number of every land — a number without any boundary.
眾生若聞者，迷亂心發狂 — should sentient beings hear of this, their minds would be thrown into confusion and madness. The verse pauses to acknowledge, in its own words, how disorienting its central claim actually is — not simply asserting the mutual containment of worlds and dust as a fact to be accepted, but naming the vertigo an ordinary listener would feel on first hearing it, before continuing to describe that same vertiginous vision at length regardless.
Part 631 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-six, 普賢行品, in fascicle forty-nine. Part 632 continues the verse recitation with a bodhisattva knowing the passing of kalpas as a single thought, and manifesting bodies without number to teach in every assembly.