Inconceivable Dharmas Conclude, Skillful Secret Speech Begins
The tenth inconceivable dharma closes on a familiar paradox — entering the dharma-realm entirely by entering nowhere — before the questions turn to a different mode of speech, one that can hold contradictory truths at once: that the Buddha's dharma and the world's dharma are the same thing, yet never to be confused with one another, and that every point in empty space already holds a world, either forming or collapsing, with no gap left over.
A World in Every Point of Space
The final inconceivable dharma closes an entire list built from paradox with one more: entering everywhere by entering nowhere. The skillful, secret speech that follows keeps that same double vision going — a single sūtra covering every place a being might be born, and a striking cosmological claim that no point in the whole of empty space is ever left without a world in it.
於念念中入滅盡定，盡一切漏而不證實際，亦不盡有漏善根；雖知一切法無漏，而知漏盡，亦知漏滅；雖知佛法即世間法，世間法即佛法，而不於佛法中分別世間法，不於世間法中分別佛法；一切諸法悉入法界，無所入故；知一切法皆無二，無變易故；是為第十不可思議。佛子！是為菩薩摩訶薩十種不可思議。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得一切諸佛無上不可思議法。
"In thought after thought, entering the concentration of cessation, exhausting every outflow yet not realizing the ultimate limit, and yet not exhausting the roots of goodness tainted by outflow; though knowing that every dharma is free of outflow, still knowing the exhaustion of outflow, and also knowing the extinction of outflow; though knowing that the Buddha's dharma is itself the world's dharma, and the world's dharma is itself the Buddha's dharma, yet never discriminating a worldly dharma within the Buddha's dharma, nor a buddha-dharma within a worldly dharma; every dharma entirely enters the dharma-realm, because it enters nowhere at all; and knowing that every dharma is without duality, because it undergoes no change — this is the tenth inconceivable dharma. Son of the Buddha! These are the bodhisattva-mahāsattva's ten inconceivable dharmas. If bodhisattvas abide within them, they attain the unsurpassed inconceivable dharma shared by every buddha.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種巧密語。何等為十？所謂：於一切佛經中，巧密語；於一切受生處，巧密語；於一切菩薩神通變現、成等正覺，巧密語；於一切眾生業報，巧密語；於一切眾生所起染淨，巧密語；於一切法究竟無障礙門，巧密語；於一切虛空界，一一方處悉有世界或成或壞，間無空處，巧密語；於一切法界、一切十方，乃至微細處，悉有如來示現初生，乃至成佛、入般涅槃，充滿法界悉分別見，巧密語；見一切眾生平等涅槃無變易故，而不捨大願，以一切智願未得圓滿令滿足故，巧密語；雖知一切法不由他悟，而不捨離諸善知識，於如來所轉加尊敬，與善知識和合無二，於諸善根修集種植，迴向安住，同一所作，同一體性，同一出離，同一成就，巧密語。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得如來無上善巧微密語。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of skillful, secret speech. What are these ten? Namely: skillful, secret speech regarding every sūtra of the Buddha; skillful, secret speech regarding every place of taking birth; skillful, secret speech regarding every bodhisattva's spiritual transformation and attainment of perfect awakening; skillful, secret speech regarding the karmic result of every sentient being; skillful, secret speech regarding the defilement and purity that arise in every sentient being; skillful, secret speech regarding the ultimate, unobstructed gateway of every dharma; skillful, secret speech regarding how, throughout the whole realm of empty space, every single place holds a world either forming or collapsing, with no gap left empty anywhere; skillful, secret speech regarding how, throughout the whole dharma-realm and every one of the ten directions, down to the subtlest place, a tathāgata is present, manifesting his first birth, all the way to attaining buddhahood and entering parinirvāṇa, filling the dharma-realm entirely, each one distinctly seen; skillful, secret speech regarding how, though seeing that every sentient being is equally nirvāṇa itself and undergoes no change, one still never abandons the great vow, so as to bring the vow for all-knowing wisdom, not yet fulfilled, to complete fulfillment; and skillful, secret speech regarding how, though knowing that every dharma is understood not through another's awakening, one still never abandons any good spiritual friend, growing ever more reverent toward the tathāgata, harmonized with every good spiritual friend as without duality, cultivating and planting every root of goodness, dedicating it and abiding in it, sharing the same activity, the same essential nature, the same transcendence, and the same accomplishment. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, skillful, secret speech.
於一切虛空界，一一方處悉有世界或成或壞，間無空處 — throughout the whole realm of empty space, every single place holds a world either forming or collapsing, with no gap left empty anywhere. Named as an instance of "skillful, secret speech" rather than an ordinary cosmological claim, this line suggests that the difficulty here is not factual but rhetorical: saying that space contains no true emptiness at all requires exactly the kind of speech that can hold two things — space as absence, and space as everywhere occupied — without collapsing one into the other.
Part 702 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-four. Part 703 answers the next question with ten kinds of skillful, discriminating wisdom, entering every land, every sentient being's mind, and every buddha's own dharma in turn.