Universal Wisdom's Question List Continues
Without a single pause, Universal Wisdom's questions move from samādhi and the gateways of liberation through ten kinds of unobstructed function, decisive understanding, and habitual tendency, before arriving at a striking turn: questions about the bodhisattva's own foot, hand, belly, and armor, as if the whole practice were about to be described as a body in its own right.
From Unobstructed Function to a Bodhisattva's Own Body
Eighty-eight more questions continue without any break in the sentence that began the chapter — moving through liberation, ten kinds of unobstructed function tied to beings, lands, dharmas, and vows in turn, decisive understanding of the world and of sentient beings, and then, abruptly, the foot, the hand, the belly, and a set of armor, as the questions begin to describe practice in bodily terms.
何等為入三昧？何等為遍入？何等為解脫門？何等為神通？何等為明？何等為解脫？何等為園林？何等為宮殿？何等為所樂？何等為莊嚴？何等為發不動心？何等為不捨深大心？何等為觀察？何等為說法？何等為清淨？何等為印？何等為智光照？何等為無等住？何等為無下劣心？何等為如山增上心？何等為入無上菩提如海智？何等為如寶住？何等為發如金剛大乘誓願心？何等為大發起？何等為究竟大事？何等為不壞信？何等為授記？何等為善根迴向？何等為得智慧？何等為發無邊廣大心？何等為伏藏？何等為律儀？何等為自在？何等為無礙用？何等為眾生無礙用？何等為剎無礙用？何等為法無礙用？何等為身無礙用？何等為願無礙用？何等為境界無礙用？何等為智無礙用？何等為神通無礙用？何等為神力無礙用？何等為力無礙用？
What is entering samādhi? What is entering everywhere? What is a gateway of liberation? What is spiritual power? What is knowledge? What is liberation? What is a garden grove? What is a palace? What is delight? What is adornment? What is giving rise to an unmoving mind? What is never abandoning a profound, vast mind? What is observation? What is expounding the dharma? What is purity? What is a seal? What is the illumination of wisdom-light? What is an abode without equal? What is a mind free of inferiority? What is a mind as exalted as a mountain? What is entering the ocean-like wisdom of unsurpassed awakening? What is abiding like a jewel? What is giving rise to a vow as firm as vajra for the Great Vehicle? What is great initiative? What is the ultimate great matter? What is indestructible faith? What is a prediction of awakening? What is dedicating roots of goodness? What is attaining wisdom? What is giving rise to a boundless, vast mind? What is a hidden treasury? What is moral discipline? What is sovereign freedom? What is unobstructed function? What is unobstructed function toward sentient beings? What is unobstructed function toward lands? What is unobstructed function toward dharmas? What is unobstructed function toward the body? What is unobstructed function toward vows? What is unobstructed function toward one's own domain? What is unobstructed function toward wisdom? What is unobstructed function toward spiritual powers? What is unobstructed function toward spiritual might? What is unobstructed function toward power?
何等為遊戲？何等為境界？何等為力？何等為無畏？何等為不共法？何等為業？何等為身？何等為身業？何等為身？何等為語？何等為淨修語業？何等為得守護？何等為成辦大事？何等為心？何等為發心？何等為周遍心？何等為諸根？何等為深心？何等為增上深心？何等為勤修？何等為決定解？何等為決定解入世界？何等為決定解入眾生界？何等為習氣？何等為取？何等為修？何等為成就佛法？何等為退失佛法道？何等為離生道？何等為決定法？何等為出生佛法道？何等為大丈夫名號？何等為道？何等為無量道？何等為助道？何等為修道？何等為莊嚴道？何等為足？何等為手？何等為腹？何等為藏？何等為心？何等為被甲？何等為器仗？
What is playful ease? What is a domain? What is power? What is fearlessness? What is an exclusive dharma? What is karma? What is the body? What is bodily karma? What is the body? What is speech? What is purely cultivating verbal karma? What is attaining protection? What is accomplishing the great matter? What is mind? What is giving rise to the mind of awakening? What is an all-pervading mind? What are the faculties? What is a profound mind? What is an exalted, profound mind? What is diligent cultivation? What is decisive understanding? What is decisive understanding entering the world? What is decisive understanding entering the realm of sentient beings? What is habitual tendency? What is grasping? What is cultivation? What is accomplishing the Buddha's dharma? What is regressing from and losing the path of the Buddha's dharma? What is the path that leaves birth behind? What is a decisive dharma? What is giving rise to the path of the Buddha's dharma? What is the title of a great being? What is the path? What is the measureless path? What is that which aids the path? What is cultivating the path? What is adorning the path? What is the foot? What is the hand? What is the belly? What is the storehouse? What is the mind? What is donning armor? What is a weapon?
何等為足？何等為手？何等為腹？何等為藏？何等為心？何等為被甲？何等為器仗？ — what is the foot? What is the hand? What is the belly? What is the storehouse? What is the mind? What is donning armor? What is a weapon? After eighty questions built almost entirely from abstract nouns — function, understanding, tendency, dharma — the list turns without warning to a bodhisattva's own body and equipment, a shift in register that suggests the answers to come will describe spiritual practice as something closer to a physical stance than a set of ideas.
Part 685 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-three. Part 686 continues the question list through the bodhisattva's own eye, ear, nose, tongue, and every posture of standing, sitting, and lying down.