Entering a Kalpa, Every Kalpa as a Single Thought
Time itself becomes the subject of four ten-fold lists in a row — entering kalpas both countable and uncountable, speaking of the three times cross-wise into each other, knowing that every convention of time is ultimately empty — before the questions turn to a tireless mind and, finally, ten kinds of wisdom that discern the differences among beings, worlds, and every path of language.
Every Kalpa, Cross-Wise Through Every Other
The entries on entering a kalpa and speaking of the three times work by deliberate cross-reference — the past speaking of the future, the future speaking of the present, a countable kalpa entered as an uncountable one — building toward the claim that every kalpa collapses into a single thought, before the list turns to tirelessness and to ten distinct kinds of wisdom, each discerning difference in its own domain.
菩薩以此普入十方一切世界。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種入劫。何等為十？所謂：入過去劫；入未來劫；入現在劫；入可數劫；入不可數劫；入可數劫即不可數劫；入不可數劫即可數劫；入一切劫即非劫；入非劫即一切劫；入一切劫即一念。是為十。菩薩以此普入一切劫。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種說三世。何等為十？所謂：過去世說過去世；過去世說未來世；過去世說現在世；未來世說過去世；未來世說現在世；未來世說無盡；現在世說過去世；現在世說未來世；現在世說平等；現在世說三世即一念。是為十。菩薩以此普說三世。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種知三世。何等為十？所謂：知諸安立；知諸語言；知諸談議；知諸軌則；知諸稱謂；知諸制令；知其假名；知其無盡；知其寂滅；知一切空。是為十。菩薩以此普知一切三世諸法。
"Through these, a bodhisattva universally enters every world in the ten directions. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of entry into a kalpa. What are these ten? Namely: entering a past kalpa; entering a future kalpa; entering a present kalpa; entering a countable kalpa; entering an uncountable kalpa; entering a countable kalpa that is itself an uncountable kalpa; entering an uncountable kalpa that is itself a countable kalpa; entering every kalpa that is itself no kalpa at all; entering what is no kalpa at all that is itself every kalpa; and entering every kalpa that is itself a single thought. These are the ten. Through these, a bodhisattva universally enters every kalpa. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten ways of speaking of the three times. What are these ten? Namely: speaking of the past age within the past age; speaking of the future age within the past age; speaking of the present age within the past age; speaking of the past age within the future age; speaking of the present age within the future age; speaking of inexhaustibility within the future age; speaking of the past age within the present age; speaking of the future age within the present age; speaking of equality within the present age; and speaking of the three times as a single thought within the present age. These are the ten. Through these, a bodhisattva universally speaks of the three times. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of knowledge of the three times. What are these ten? Namely: knowing every established convention; knowing every language; knowing every discourse; knowing every rule and pattern; knowing every designation; knowing every regulation; knowing that these are all provisional names; knowing that they are inexhaustible; knowing that they are still and extinguished; and knowing that all of it is empty. These are the ten. Through these, a bodhisattva universally knows every dharma of the three times.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩發十種無疲厭心。何等為十？所謂：供養一切諸佛無疲厭心；親近一切善知識無疲厭心；求一切法無疲厭心；聽聞正法無疲厭心；宣說正法無疲厭心；教化調伏一切眾生無疲厭心；置一切眾生於佛菩提無疲厭心；於一一世界經不可說不可說劫行菩薩行無疲厭心；遊行一切世界無疲厭心；觀察思惟一切佛法無疲厭心。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得如來無疲厭無上大智。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種差別智。何等為十？所謂：知眾生差別智；知諸根差別智；知業報差別智；知受生差別智；知世界差別智；知法界差別智；知諸佛差別智；知諸法差別智；知三世差別智；知一切語言道差別智。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得如來無上廣大差別智。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva gives rise to ten kinds of mind without weariness. What are these ten? Namely: a mind without weariness in making offerings to every buddha; a mind without weariness in drawing near to every good spiritual friend; a mind without weariness in seeking every dharma; a mind without weariness in listening to the true dharma; a mind without weariness in proclaiming the true dharma; a mind without weariness in teaching and taming every sentient being; a mind without weariness in placing every sentient being upon the Buddha's own awakening; a mind without weariness in carrying out bodhisattva practice, in each and every world, across unspeakably, unspeakably many kalpas; a mind without weariness in traveling throughout every world; and a mind without weariness in observing and reflecting upon every dharma of the Buddha. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide in this dharma, they attain the tathāgata's own tireless, unsurpassed great wisdom. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of differentiated wisdom. What are these ten? Namely: the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among sentient beings; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among faculties; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences of karmic result; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences of taking birth; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among worlds; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences within the dharma-realm; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among buddhas; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among dharmas; the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences of the three times; and the differentiated wisdom that knows the differences among every path of language. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide in this dharma, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, vast, differentiated wisdom.
入一切劫即非劫；入非劫即一切劫；入一切劫即一念 — entering every kalpa that is itself no kalpa at all; entering what is no kalpa at all that is itself every kalpa; and entering every kalpa that is itself a single thought. The list on entering a kalpa builds deliberately: first past, future, and present; then countable and uncountable; then each folded into the other; and only at the very end, once every ordinary way of dividing time has been exhausted, does it arrive at the claim that time collapses into a single thought — a conclusion the list earns through its own structure rather than simply asserting.
Part 690 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-three. Part 691 answers the next questions with the ten dhāraṇīs and the ten kinds of buddha a bodhisattva can speak of, including the buddha of one's own mind and the buddha of samādhi.