The Mind Teaching's Verse Recap
Every mark of the tathāgata's mind returns here in a single pair of lines apiece — space with nothing to depend on, the ocean's hidden jewels, the medicine-king tree, a fire that cannot spare a blade of grass, the wind that both destroys and protects, and the scripture broken free from a single mote of dust — closing fascicle fifty-one with the teaching's own summary of itself.
Ten Marks, Ten Quatrain Pairs
The verse retraces every simile of the mind teaching at speed — space depending on nothing, the underground waters, the hidden jewels of the nāga and the ocean, the medicine-king tree, the unburnable and the unspreadable, the two winds, and finally the scripture broken free of its mote of dust — closing the entire section, and the fascicle, together.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩應以如是等無量無礙不可思議廣大相，知如來、應、正等覺心。」爾時，普賢菩薩摩訶薩欲重明此義而說頌言：「欲知諸佛心，當觀佛智慧，佛智無依處，如空無所依。
眾生種種樂，及諸方便智，皆依佛智慧，佛智無依止。
聲聞與獨覺，及諸佛解脫，皆依於法界，法界無增減。
佛智亦如是，出生一切智，無增亦無減，無生亦無盡。
如水潛流地，求之無不得，無念亦無盡，功力遍十方。
佛智亦如是，普在眾生心，若有勤修行，疾得智光明。
如龍有四珠，出生一切寶，置之深密處，凡人莫能見。
佛四智亦然，出生一切智，餘人莫能見，唯除大菩薩。
如海有四寶，能飲一切水，令海不流溢，亦復無增減。
如來智亦爾，息浪除法愛，廣大無有邊，能生佛菩薩。
"Sons of the Buddha! Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas should know the mind of the tathāgata, the worthy one, the perfectly and fully awakened one, through measureless, unobstructed, inconceivable, vast marks such as these." At that time, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva-Mahāsattva, wishing to illuminate this meaning once more, spoke in verse, saying: "If you wish to know the mind of every buddha, you should observe a buddha's own wisdom; a buddha's wisdom has no place to depend upon, like empty space, which depends on nothing.
The manifold delights of sentient beings, and every skillful means of wisdom, all depend on a buddha's own wisdom, yet a buddha's wisdom has nothing to rest upon.
The śrāvaka and the pratyekabuddha, and the liberation of every buddha, all depend upon the dharma-realm, and the dharma-realm neither increases nor decreases.
A buddha's wisdom is likewise just the same, giving rise to all-knowing wisdom, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither arising nor being exhausted.
It is like water flowing secretly beneath the ground: seek it, and it will always be found; without deliberation and without limit, its power reaches the ten directions.
A buddha's wisdom is likewise just the same, universally present within the minds of sentient beings; whoever diligently cultivates practice swiftly attains the light of wisdom.
It is like the nāga who has four pearls, giving rise to every treasure; placed in a deep and secret place, no ordinary person is able to see them.
The buddha's four wisdoms are likewise just the same, giving rise to all-knowing wisdom; no other person is able to see them, except only the great bodhisattvas.
It is like the ocean, which has four jewels, able to drink up every water, keeping the ocean from ever overflowing, and likewise neither rising nor falling.
The tathāgata's own wisdom is likewise just the same, stilling every wave and removing every attachment to dharma, vast and without any boundary, able to give rise to every buddha and bodhisattva.
下方至有頂，欲色無色界，一切依虛空，虛空不分別。
聲聞與獨覺，菩薩眾智慧，皆依於佛智，佛智無分別。
雪山有藥王，名為無盡根，能生一切樹，根莖葉華實。
佛智亦如是，如來種中生，既得菩提已，復生菩薩行。
如人把乾草，置之於劫燒，金剛猶洞然，此無不燒理。
三世劫與剎，及其中眾生，彼草容不燒，此佛無不知。
有風名散壞，能壞於大千；若無別風止，壞及無量界。
大智風亦爾，滅諸菩薩惑；別有善巧風，令住如來地。
如有大經卷，量等三千界，在於一塵內，一切塵悉然。
有一聰慧人，淨眼悉明見，破塵出經卷，普饒益眾生。
佛智亦如是，遍在眾生心，妄想之所纏，不覺亦不知。
諸佛大慈悲，令其除妄想，如是乃出現，饒益諸菩薩。」
From the lowest realm up to the highest heaven, throughout the desire realm, the form realm, and the formless realm, everything depends upon empty space, and empty space makes no discrimination.
The śrāvaka and the pratyekabuddha, and the wisdom of every bodhisattva, all depend upon a buddha's own wisdom, and a buddha's wisdom makes no discrimination.
The snow mountains have a medicine-king, named Inexhaustible Root, able to give rise to every tree, to root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit.
A buddha's wisdom is likewise just the same, born from within the tathāgata's own lineage; having already attained awakening, it further gives rise to bodhisattva practice.
It is like a person holding dry grass and placing it into a kalpa-ending fire: even vajra itself would be pierced through by such a blaze, and there is no possibility of it not burning.
Every kalpa and land of the three times, and every sentient being within them — that grass might conceivably escape burning, but there is nothing at all this buddha fails to know.
There is a wind named Scattering Destruction, able to destroy the great trichiliocosm; were there no separate wind to stop it, its destruction would reach measureless worlds.
The wind of great wisdom is likewise just the same, extinguishing the afflictions of every bodhisattva; there is a separate, skillful wind that causes them to dwell securely in the tathāgata's own ground.
It is like there being a great scripture, its scale equal to the great trichiliocosm, dwelling within a single mote of dust, and likewise so within every mote of dust.
There is one person of clear intelligence, whose pure eye sees it entirely and clearly; breaking open the dust, he brings forth the scripture, universally benefiting sentient beings.
A buddha's wisdom is likewise just the same, pervading the minds of every sentient being, bound about by false thought, neither perceived nor known.
Every buddha's great compassion causes them to remove that false thought; it is in just this way that they appear, benefiting every bodhisattva."
彼草容不燒，此佛無不知 — that grass might conceivably escape burning, but there is nothing at all this buddha fails to know. The verse sharpens the prose version of this same simile into a direct comparison: where the prose asked and answered a rhetorical question about the grass, the verse states outright that even the impossible — dry grass surviving a kalpa-ending fire fierce enough to pierce vajra — remains more conceivable than a single gap in the tathāgata's own knowledge, closing the comparison with the strongest claim the image can bear.
Fascicle 51 Complete
This completes fascicle fifty-one of eighty. Chapter thirty-seven, 如來出現品, continues into fascicle fifty-two, which Part 668 will begin.