Discriminating Wisdom, Samādhi, Universal Entry, and Liberation
Four ten-fold lists move through discriminating wisdom entering śrāvakas, solitary buddhas, and bodhisattvas alike, ten kinds of entry into samādhi, ten kinds of universal entry that unexpectedly include the calamities of fire and flood alongside buddhas and offerings, and ten gateways of liberation, from a single body pervading every world to every world entering a single buddha-land.
Fire and Flood Among the Buddhas
The list of universal entry places the calamities of fire and water directly alongside buddhas, adornments, and offerings — a striking juxtaposition suggesting that a bodhisattva's reach extends as fully into catastrophe as into anything auspicious; the ten gateways of liberation that follow return to more familiar territory, each one a different way of collapsing scale, fitting every world into a single body or a single land.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種巧分別智。何等為十？所謂：入一切剎巧分別智；入一切眾生處巧分別智；入一切眾生心行巧分別智；入一切眾生根巧分別智；入一切眾生業報巧分別智；入一切聲聞行巧分別智；入一切獨覺行巧分別智；入一切菩薩行巧分別智；入一切世間法巧分別智；入一切佛法巧分別智。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得一切諸佛無上善巧分別諸法智。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種入三昧。何等為十？所謂：於一切世界入三昧；於一切眾生身入三昧；於一切法入三昧；見一切佛入三昧；住一切劫入三昧；從三昧起現不思議身入三昧；於一切佛身入三昧；覺悟一切眾生平等入三昧；一念中入一切菩薩三昧智入三昧；一念中以無礙智成就一切諸菩薩行願無有休息入三昧。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得一切諸佛無上善巧三昧法。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of skillful, discriminating wisdom. What are these ten? Namely: the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering every land; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering every place where sentient beings dwell; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the mental activity of every sentient being; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the faculties of every sentient being; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the karmic result of every sentient being; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the practice of every śrāvaka; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the practice of every solitary awakened one; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering the practice of every bodhisattva; the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering every worldly dharma; and the skillful, discriminating wisdom of entering every dharma of the Buddha. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the unsurpassed, skillful, discriminating wisdom of every dharma shared by every buddha. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of entry into samādhi. What are these ten? Namely: entering samādhi throughout every world; entering samādhi within the body of every sentient being; entering samādhi within every dharma; entering samādhi by beholding every buddha; entering samādhi by abiding throughout every kalpa; entering samādhi by rising from samādhi and manifesting an inconceivable body; entering samādhi within the body of every buddha; entering samādhi by awakening to the equality of every sentient being; entering samādhi by entering, within a single thought, the wisdom of every bodhisattva's own samādhi; and entering samādhi by accomplishing, within a single thought, through unobstructed wisdom, every bodhisattva's own practice and vow without ever resting. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the unsurpassed, skillful dharma of samādhi shared by every buddha.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種遍入。何等為十？所謂：眾生遍入；國土遍入；世間種種相遍入；火災遍入；水災遍入；佛遍入；莊嚴遍入；如來無邊功德身遍入；一切種種說法遍入；一切如來種種供養遍入。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得如來無上大智遍入法。「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種解脫門。何等為十？所謂：一身周遍一切世界解脫門；於一切世界示現無量種種色相解脫門；以一切世界入一佛剎解脫門；普加持一切眾生界解脫門；以一切佛莊嚴身充滿一切世界解脫門；於自身中見一切世界解脫門；一念中往一切世界解脫門；於一世界示現一切如來出世解脫門；一身充滿一切法界解脫門；一念中示現一切佛遊戲神通解脫門。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得如來無上解脫門。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of universal entry. What are these ten? Namely: universal entry into sentient beings; universal entry into lands; universal entry into every kind of worldly mark; universal entry into the calamity of fire; universal entry into the calamity of water; universal entry into every buddha; universal entry into every adornment; universal entry into the tathāgata's own boundless body of merit; universal entry into every kind of expounding of the dharma; and universal entry into every kind of offering made to every tathāgata. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed dharma of great wisdom's universal entry. Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten gateways of liberation. What are these ten? Namely: the gateway of liberation in which a single body pervades every world; the gateway of liberation in which measureless, distinct forms and appearances are manifested throughout every world; the gateway of liberation in which every world enters a single buddha-land; the gateway of liberation in which every realm of sentient beings is universally empowered; the gateway of liberation in which the adorned body of every buddha fills every world completely; the gateway of liberation in which every world is seen within one's own body; the gateway of liberation in which one journeys to every world within a single thought; the gateway of liberation in which the appearance of every tathāgata in the world is manifested within a single world; the gateway of liberation in which a single body fills the whole dharma-realm completely; and the gateway of liberation in which the playful spiritual powers of every buddha are manifested within a single thought. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed gateway of liberation.
火災遍入；水災遍入 — universal entry into the calamity of fire; universal entry into the calamity of water. Set between "every kind of worldly mark" and "every buddha," these two entries name the traditional forces that, in this sūtra's own cosmology, periodically destroy world-systems — placing catastrophe itself, not merely its aftermath or its opposite, among the things a bodhisattva's reach must fully include.
Part 703 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-four. Part 704 answers the next question with ten kinds of spiritual power, from remembering past lives to attaining perfect awakening within an unspeakable world according to an inconceivable being's own mind.