Manifesting Bodies Without Number
The verse now moves across all three times in turn — past worlds and their adornments known in a single thought, future buddhas' vows and grounds, and present buddhas whose eloquence, faculties, and wisdom are without any obstruction — before dissolving even the distinction between worldly names and dream, and measureless kalpas into a single thought.
Unspeakable Names, Known Only to a Buddha
The transformation of every world, sentient being, dharma, and buddha reaches a limit even the sutra itself concedes: not even every kalpa could exhaust the names of every world and every tathāgata, except through a buddha's own disclosure.
知諸世界化，剎化眾生化，法化諸佛化，一切皆究竟。
一切諸世界，微細廣大剎，種種異莊嚴，皆由業所起。
無量諸佛子，善學入法界，神通力自在，普遍於十方。
眾生數等劫，說彼世界名，亦不能令盡，唯除佛開示。
世界及如來，種種諸名號，經於無量劫，說之不可盡。
何況最勝智，三世諸佛法，從於法界生，充滿如來地！
清淨無礙念，無邊無礙慧，分別說法界，得至於彼岸。
Knowing the transformation of every world, the transformation of lands, the transformation of sentient beings, the transformation of dharmas, and the transformation of every buddha — all of it reaches its ultimate limit.
Every world, whether a subtle land or a vast one, is adorned in every manner of differing way, and all of it arises from karma.
Measureless sons of the Buddha, skillfully learning to enter the dharma-realm, possess spiritual power and mastery that reach everywhere throughout the ten directions.
Even for a number of kalpas equal to the number of sentient beings, telling the names of those worlds could still not exhaust them, except through a buddha's own disclosure.
The worlds and the tathāgatas, and their every manner of name — telling of them through measureless kalpas could still not exhaust them.
How much more so the most excellent wisdom, the dharma of every buddha of the three times, born from the dharma-realm and filling the tathāgata's own ground!
A pure, unobstructed mindfulness, and a boundless, unobstructed wisdom, distinctly expounding the dharma-realm, thereby reach the further shore.
過去諸世界，廣大及微細，修習所莊嚴，一念悉能知。
其中人師子，修佛種種行，成於等正覺，示現諸自在。
如是未來世，次第無量劫，所有人中尊，菩薩悉能知。
所有諸行願，所有諸境界，如是勤修行，於中成正覺。
亦知彼眾會，壽命化眾生，以此諸法門，為眾轉法輪。
菩薩如是知，住普賢行地，智慧悉明了，出生一切佛。
現在世所攝，一切諸佛土，深入此諸剎，通達於法界。
彼諸世界中，現在一切佛，於法得自在，言論無所礙。
亦知彼眾會，淨土應化力，盡無量億劫，常思惟是事。
Every world of the past, whether vast or subtle, along with every adornment accomplished through cultivation, is entirely known within a single thought.
Within them, the lions among people, having cultivated every manner of buddha-practice, attained perfect and complete awakening, and displayed every mastery.
And so it is with the future age, its measureless kalpas one after another; every honored one among people, every bodhisattva, is entirely known.
Every vow and practice, and every domain there is — diligently cultivating in this way, awakening is attained within it.
Also known are their assemblies, their lifespans, and the beings they transform; through these very dharma-gates, they turn the dharma-wheel for the multitude.
The bodhisattva, knowing thus, dwells in the ground of Samantabhadra's practice; their wisdom entirely clear, they give rise to every buddha.
Comprehended within the present age are every buddha-land there is; entering deeply into these lands, one penetrates the dharma-realm.
Within those worlds, every buddha of the present age has attained mastery over the dharma, their discourse without any obstruction.
Also known are their assemblies, the power of their pure lands' responsive transformations; throughout measureless koṭis of kalpas, this alone is constantly contemplated.
調御世間尊，所有威神力，無盡智慧藏，一切悉能知。
出生無礙眼，無礙耳鼻身，無礙廣長舌，能令眾歡喜。
最勝無礙心，廣大普清淨，智慧遍充滿，悉知三世法。
善學一切化，剎化眾生化，世化調伏化，究竟化彼岸。
世間種種別，皆由於想住，入佛方便智，於此悉明了。
眾會不可說，一一為現身，悉使見如來，度脫無邊眾。
諸佛甚深智，如日出世間，一切國土中，普現無休息。
了達諸世間，假名無有實，眾生及世界，如夢如光影。
於諸世間法，不生分別見，善離分別者，亦不見分別。
無量無數劫，解之即一念，知念亦無念，如是見世間。
The honored tamer of the world, and every majestic spiritual power there is, and the inexhaustible treasury of wisdom — all of it is entirely known.
Giving rise to an unobstructed eye, unobstructed ear, nose, and body, and an unobstructed broad and long tongue, they are able to bring the multitude to rejoice.
The most excellent unobstructed mind, vast and universally pure, its wisdom pervading and filling everywhere, entirely knows the dharma of the three times.
Skillfully learning every transformation — the transformation of lands, of sentient beings, of the world, and of taming — they reach the ultimate shore of transformation.
The manifold differences of the world all arise from the abiding of conception; entering a buddha's own skillful wisdom, all of this becomes entirely clear.
In unspeakable assemblies, a body is manifested in each and every one, causing all to behold the tathāgata and be delivered without limit.
The profound wisdom of every buddha is like the sun rising over the world, universally appearing throughout every land without ever ceasing.
Fully understanding that every world is but a provisional name without any reality, that sentient beings and worlds alike are like a dream, like a gleam of light or a shadow.
Toward the dharmas of every world, giving rise to no view of discrimination; one who skillfully departs from discrimination sees no discrimination either.
Measureless, countless kalpas, once understood, are but a single thought; knowing that thought too is without any thought — thus is the world truly seen.
知念亦無念，如是見世間 — knowing that thought too is without any thought — thus is the world truly seen. The verse's long meditation on scale — every world in a thought, measureless kalpas compressed to an instant — arrives here at a final reversal: even the single thought that holds all of this is itself said to be without thought, so that the achievement being described is not a bigger or faster kind of knowing, but the dissolution of the knowing act's own claim to substance.
Part 632 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-six, 普賢行品, in fascicle forty-nine. Part 633 continues the verse recitation with measureless lands entered in a single thought, and the mind's relation to the world it perceives.