Ten Kinds of Seal Begin
Unlike the terse parallel phrases filling most of this chapter, each of the ten seals unfolds as a short, concrete scene of its own — a bodhisattva who understands the three kinds of suffering, who meets insult and physical violence without ever abandoning the bodhisattva mind, who refuses to measure the tathāgata's wisdom against any fixed limit at all.
Patience Under Swords, Staves, Tiles, and Stones
Where earlier lists in this chapter answered abstractly, the ten seals answer with scenes: a bodhisattva reviled with harsh words or struck with weapons and debris who never once abandons the bodhisattva mind; another who refuses to place any fixed boundary on the tathāgata's own wisdom, however many buddhas have already confirmed that wisdom has no boundary to find.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種印。何等為十？所謂：菩薩摩訶薩知苦苦、壞苦、行苦，專求佛法，不生懈怠，行菩薩行，無有疲懈，不驚不畏，不恐不怖，不捨大願，求一切智，堅固不退，究竟阿耨多羅三藐三菩提，是為第一印。菩薩摩訶薩見有眾生愚癡狂亂，或以麁弊惡語而相毀辱，或以刀杖瓦石而加損害，終不以此境界捨菩薩心，但忍辱柔和，專修佛法，住最勝道，入離生位，是為第二印。菩薩摩訶薩聞說與一切智相應甚深佛法，能以自智，深信忍可，解了趣入，是為第三印。菩薩摩訶薩又作是念：『我發深心求一切智，我當成佛得阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。一切眾生流轉五趣受無量苦，亦當令其發菩提心，深信歡喜，勤修精進，堅固不退。』是為第四印。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of seal. What are these ten? Namely: a bodhisattva-mahāsattva, knowing the suffering of suffering, the suffering of change, and the suffering of formations, single-mindedly seeks the Buddha's dharma, never growing lazy, carrying out bodhisattva practice without any weariness, never startled, never afraid, never fearful, never terrified, never abandoning the great vow, seeking all-knowing wisdom, firm and never regressing, all the way to unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening — this is the first seal. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva, seeing sentient beings who are foolish and deranged, whether they revile and insult with coarse, harsh, evil words, or inflict harm with swords, staves, tiles, or stones, never once abandons the bodhisattva mind because of such circumstances, but remains patient and gentle, single-mindedly cultivating the Buddha's dharma, abiding in the most supreme path, and entering the stage that leaves birth behind — this is the second seal. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva, hearing the profound dharma of the Buddha that corresponds to all-knowing wisdom expounded, is able, through their own wisdom, to believe it profoundly, accept it, understand it, and enter into it — this is the third seal. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva further thinks: "I give rise to a profound mind seeking all-knowing wisdom; I shall become a buddha and attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening. Every sentient being, revolving through the five destinies, undergoes measureless suffering; I shall also cause them to give rise to the mind of awakening, believing profoundly, rejoicing, diligently cultivating with vigor, firm and never regressing." This is the fourth seal.
菩薩摩訶薩知如來智無有邊際，不以齊限測如來智；菩薩曾於無量佛所聞如來智無有邊際故，能不以齊限測度；一切世間文字所說皆有齊限，悉不能知如來智慧；是為第五印。菩薩摩訶薩於阿耨多羅三藐三菩提得最勝欲、甚深欲、廣欲、大欲、種種欲、無能勝欲、無上欲、堅固欲、眾魔外道并其眷屬無能壞欲、求一切智不退轉欲，菩薩住如是等欲，於無上菩提畢竟不退，是為第六印。菩薩摩訶薩行菩薩行，不顧身命，無能沮壞，發心趣向一切智故，一切智性常現前故，得一切佛智光明故，終不捨離佛菩提，終不捨離善知識，是為第七印。
A bodhisattva-mahāsattva knows that the tathāgata's wisdom is without any limit, and never measures the tathāgata's wisdom by any fixed boundary; because the bodhisattva has already heard, in the presence of measureless buddhas, that the tathāgata's wisdom is without limit, they are able not to measure it by any fixed boundary; every word and expression in the world has some fixed limit, and none of them can ever know the tathāgata's own wisdom — this is the fifth seal. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva attains, toward unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening, the most supreme aspiration, the most profound aspiration, the vast aspiration, the great aspiration, every kind of aspiration, the unsurpassable aspiration, the unsurpassed aspiration, the firm aspiration, the aspiration that no host of māras or heretics together with their followers can ever destroy, and the aspiration for all-knowing wisdom that never regresses; abiding in aspirations such as these, a bodhisattva never regresses from unsurpassed awakening, in the end — this is the sixth seal. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva carries out bodhisattva practice without regard for their own body or life, and nothing can ever obstruct or destroy them, because their mind has already set out toward all-knowing wisdom, because the nature of all-knowing wisdom is constantly present before them, and because they have attained the light of every buddha's own wisdom; they never abandon the Buddha's own awakening, and never abandon any good spiritual friend — this is the seventh seal.
一切世間文字所說皆有齊限，悉不能知如來智慧 — every word and expression in the world has some fixed limit, and none of them can ever know the tathāgata's own wisdom. The fifth seal does not simply assert that the tathāgata's wisdom is boundless; it identifies exactly why language cannot capture that boundlessness — every word necessarily marks off some limit, so no combination of words could ever describe something that has none. The observation applies as much to this list's own description of the fifth seal as to anything else.
Part 710 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-four. Part 711 completes the ten seals with a bodhisattva who helps others enter the Great Vehicle and never regress, then opens ten kinds of wisdom-illumination and ten unequaled abidings.