Unobstructed Function of Spiritual Power and Power Complete
Spiritual power ties countless mountains of adamant to a single hair, turns unspeakably many kalpas into one, and survives every world's destruction by water, fire, and wind — always adding the same condition: never once causing a sentient being fear. Ten kinds of power then close the entire topic of unobstructed function, ending on great compassion that never abandons a single being.
Never Once Causing Fear
Four separate entries in the unobstructed function of spiritual power name an act of world-scale violence — tying mountains to a hair, casting worlds beyond other worlds, surviving fire and flood — only to attach the same qualifying clause each time: without ever causing a sentient being fear. The ten kinds of power that follow then bring the entire topic of unobstructed function, spanning five Parts, to its close.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種神力無礙用。何等為十？所謂：以不可說世界置一塵中無礙用；於一塵中現等法界一切佛剎無礙用；以一切大海水置一毛孔，周旋往返十方世界，而於眾生無所觸嬈無礙用；以不可說世界內自身中，示現一切神通所作無礙用；以一毛繫不可數金剛圍山，持以遊行一切世界，不令眾生生恐怖心無礙用；以不可說劫作一劫，一劫作不可說劫，於中示現成壞差別，不令眾生心有恐怖無礙用；於一切世界現水、火、風災種種變壞而不惱眾生無礙用；一切世界三災壞時，悉能護持一切眾生資生之具不令損缺無礙用；以一手持不思議世界，擲不可說世界之外，不令眾生有驚怖想無礙用；說一切剎同於虛空，令諸眾生悉得悟解無礙用。是為十。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of unobstructed function of spiritual power. What are these ten? Namely: the unobstructed function of placing unspeakably many worlds within a single mote of dust; the unobstructed function of manifesting, within a single mote of dust, every buddha-land equal to the whole dharma-realm; the unobstructed function of placing the water of every great ocean within a single pore, circling back and forth throughout the worlds of the ten directions, without ever disturbing a single sentient being; the unobstructed function of taking unspeakably many worlds within one's own body, and manifesting every kind of spiritual accomplishment there; the unobstructed function of tying countless cakravāḍa mountains of adamant to a single hair and carrying them while wandering through every world, without ever causing a sentient being's mind any fear; the unobstructed function of turning unspeakably many kalpas into a single kalpa, and a single kalpa into unspeakably many kalpas, manifesting within them every distinct stage of formation and destruction, without ever causing a sentient being's mind any fear; the unobstructed function of manifesting every kind of destruction by water, fire, and wind throughout every world, without ever troubling a sentient being; the unobstructed function of being able, when every world is destroyed by the three calamities, to protect and preserve every sentient being's own means of livelihood without any loss; the unobstructed function of holding inconceivable worlds in a single hand and casting them beyond unspeakably many other worlds, without ever causing a sentient being a single thought of fright; and the unobstructed function of teaching that every land is exactly the same as empty space, causing every sentient being to attain understanding. These are the ten.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種力無礙用。何等為十？所謂：眾生力無礙用，教化調伏不捨離故；剎力無礙用，示現不可說莊嚴而莊嚴故；法力無礙用，令一切身入無身故；劫力無礙用，修行不斷故；佛力無礙用，覺悟睡眠故；行力無礙用，攝取一切菩薩行故；如來力無礙用，度脫一切眾生故；無師力無礙用，自覺一切諸法故；一切智力無礙用，以一切智成正覺故；大悲力無礙用，不捨一切眾生故。是為十。「佛子！如是名為：菩薩摩訶薩十種無礙用。若有得此十無礙用者，於阿耨多羅三藐三菩提欲成、不成，隨意無違，雖成正覺而亦不斷行菩薩行。何以故？菩薩摩訶薩發大誓願，入無邊無礙用門，善巧示現故。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of unobstructed function of power. What are these ten? Namely: the unobstructed function of the power over sentient beings, because they teach and tame them without ever forsaking them; the unobstructed function of the power over lands, because they manifest unspeakably many adornments and adorn them; the unobstructed function of the power of the dharma, because they cause every body to enter what has no body; the unobstructed function of the power over kalpas, because their practice is never interrupted; the unobstructed function of the power of a buddha, because they awaken those who are asleep; the unobstructed function of the power of practice, because they gather in every bodhisattva practice; the unobstructed function of the power of a tathāgata, because they deliver every sentient being; the unobstructed function of the power that needs no teacher, because they awaken to every dharma by themselves; the unobstructed function of the power of all-knowing wisdom, because they attain right awakening through all-knowing wisdom; and the unobstructed function of the power of great compassion, because they never abandon any sentient being. These are the ten. Son of the Buddha! These are called the bodhisattva-mahāsattva's ten kinds of unobstructed function. Whoever attains these ten unobstructed functions, whether they wish to attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening or not, meets with no resistance in following their own wish, and even upon attaining right awakening, still never interrupts the carrying out of bodhisattva practice. Why is this? Because a bodhisattva-mahāsattva, having given rise to a great vow, enters the boundless gate of unobstructed function, manifesting it skillfully.
於阿耨多羅三藐三菩提欲成、不成，隨意無違 — whether they wish to attain unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening or not, meets with no resistance in following their own wish. The closing line of this entire topic, spanning ten kinds of unobstructed function, does not describe awakening itself as the point; it describes the freedom to choose either awakening or its postponement, with neither choice meeting any obstruction — the unobstructed function is the freedom itself, not any particular outcome of it.
Part 733 Complete
This completes the ten kinds of unobstructed function, continuing chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-six. Part 734 opens ten kinds of playful ease, beginning with a bodhisattva who turns a sentient being's body into a land's body without ever destroying the sentient being's own body.