The Great Rain of Dharma Falls
Ten separately named rains fall in careful order — first upon a bodhisattva seated at the very seat of awakening, down through every stage of the path, to those who seek only the two lesser vehicles and those merely accumulating wholesome roots — closing the tenth and final mark of the tathāgata's voice; the entire teaching then closes with ten kinds of measurelessness, matching the voice itself to space, the dharma-realm, and the three times.
Ten Rains for Ten Stages, Then Ten Measurelessnesses
The rain that has been so long delayed finally falls, precisely graded to the listener — from a bodhisattva at the very threshold of awakening down to a being only beginning to gather wholesome roots — before the entire teaching on the tathāgata's voice closes with a summary of ten ways that voice is itself measureless.
然後從如來大法身雲、大慈悲雲、大不思議雲，雨不思議廣大法雨，令一切眾生身心清淨。所謂：為坐菩提場菩薩雨大法雨，名：法界無差別；為最後身菩薩雨大法雨，名：菩薩遊戲如來祕密教；為一生所繫菩薩雨大法雨，名：清淨普光明；為灌頂菩薩雨大法雨，名：如來莊嚴具所莊嚴；為得忍菩薩雨大法雨，名：功德寶智慧華開敷不斷菩薩大悲行；為住向行菩薩雨大法雨，名：入現前變化甚深門而行菩薩行無休息無疲厭；為初發心菩薩雨大法雨，名：出生如來大慈悲行救護眾生；為求獨覺乘眾生雨大法雨，名：深知緣起法遠離二邊得不壞解脫果；為求聲聞乘眾生雨大法雨，名：以大智慧劍斷一切煩惱怨；為積集善根決定、不決定眾生雨大法雨，名：能令成就種種法門生大歡喜。佛子！諸佛如來隨眾生心，雨如是等廣大法雨，充滿一切無邊世界。佛子！如來、應、正等覺其心平等，於法無吝，但以眾生根欲不同，所雨法雨示有差別。是為如來音聲第十相，諸菩薩摩訶薩應如是知。
"Only then, from the tathāgata's own cloud of the great dharma-body, cloud of great loving-kindness and compassion, and cloud of great inconceivability, does he rain down an inconceivable, vast rain of dharma, causing every sentient being's body and mind alike to become pure. Namely: for a bodhisattva seated at the seat of awakening, he sends down a great rain of dharma named the Non-Differentiation of the Dharma-Realm; for a bodhisattva in their final existence, a great rain of dharma named the Bodhisattva's Own Sporting in the Tathāgata's Secret Teaching; for a bodhisattva bound to but a single further birth, a great rain of dharma named Pure and Universal Light; for a bodhisattva who has received the anointing, a great rain of dharma named Adorned by the Tathāgata's Own Adornments; for a bodhisattva who has attained forbearance, a great rain of dharma named the Flower of Merit's Jeweled Wisdom Blossoming Forth the Bodhisattva's Unceasing Practice of Great Compassion; for a bodhisattva dwelling in the practice of dedication, a great rain of dharma named Entering the Profound Gate of Manifest Transformation and Carrying Out Bodhisattva Practice Without Rest and Without Weariness; for a bodhisattva who has newly given rise to the mind of awakening, a great rain of dharma named Giving Rise to the Tathāgata's Own Great Loving-Kindness and Compassion That Rescues and Protects Sentient Beings; for sentient beings seeking the pratyekabuddha vehicle, a great rain of dharma named Deeply Knowing the Dharma of Dependent Origination, Departing Far from the Two Extremes, and Attaining the Indestructible Fruit of Liberation; for sentient beings seeking the śrāvaka vehicle, a great rain of dharma named Severing Every Enemy of Affliction with the Sword of Great Wisdom; and for sentient beings still gathering wholesome roots, whether resolute or not yet resolute, a great rain of dharma named the One Able to Bring About the Accomplishment of Every Manner of Dharma-Gate and Give Rise to Great Joy. Sons of the Buddha! Every buddha tathāgata, according to the mind of each sentient being, rains down vast rains of dharma such as these, filling every boundless world. Sons of the Buddha! The tathāgata, the worthy one, the perfectly and fully awakened one, has a mind that is equal, begrudging the dharma to no one; it is only because the faculties and desires of sentient beings differ that the rain of dharma he sends down displays a difference. This is the tenth mark of the tathāgata's voice — bodhisattva-mahāsattvas should know it thus.
「復次，佛子！應知如來音聲有十種無量。何等為十？所謂：如虛空界無量，至一切處故；如法界無量，無所不遍故；如眾生界無量，令一切心喜故；如諸業無量，說其果報故；如煩惱無量，悉令除滅故；如眾生言音無量，隨解令聞故；如眾生欲解無量，普觀救度故；如三世無量，無有邊際故；如智慧無量，分別一切故；如佛境界無量，入佛法界故。佛子！如來、應、正等覺音聲成就如是等阿僧祇無量，諸菩薩摩訶薩應如是知。」
"Furthermore, Sons of the Buddha! You should know that the tathāgata's voice has ten kinds of measurelessness. What are these ten? They are: measureless like the realm of empty space, because it reaches every place; measureless like the dharma-realm, because there is nowhere it fails to pervade; measureless like the realm of sentient beings, because it causes every mind to rejoice; measureless like every karmic action, because it speaks of their fruits and retributions; measureless like every affliction, because it entirely extinguishes them; measureless like the languages of every sentient being, because it is heard according to each one's own understanding; measureless like the desires and understandings of every sentient being, because it universally observes and delivers them; measureless like the three times, because it has no boundary or limit; measureless like wisdom, because it distinguishes everything; and measureless like a buddha's own domain, because it enters the dharma-realm of every buddha. Sons of the Buddha! The voice of the tathāgata, the worthy one, the perfectly and fully awakened one, accomplishes measurelessness such as these, an asaṃkhyeya in number — bodhisattva-mahāsattvas should know it thus."
如來、應、正等覺其心平等，於法無吝，但以眾生根欲不同，所雨法雨示有差別 — the tathāgata's mind is equal, begrudging the dharma to no one; it is only because the faculties and desires of sentient beings differ that the rain of dharma he sends down displays a difference. This closing line of the tenth mark restates, one final time, the principle that has run through every rain-simile in this section since Anavatapta's own water: whatever asymmetry appears in what beings receive belongs entirely to the beings themselves, never to any withholding on the tathāgata's part — the ten named rains that precede it, each addressed to a single, specific stage of practice, are the clearest demonstration of that principle the chapter has offered yet.
Part 660 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-seven, 如來出現品, in fascicle fifty-one. Part 661 continues with Samantabhadra's verse recap of the entire teaching on the tathāgata's voice.