Ten Kinds of Pure Loving-Kindness, Ten Kinds of Pure Compassion
A new sequence opens, purifying the four immeasurables one by one. Ten kinds of pure loving-kindness move from an equal mind toward every being to a final entry conditioned on nothing at all; ten kinds of pure compassion follow, closing on two named, expanded entries — compassion called "original purity" and compassion called "true wisdom" — each with its own distinct reasoning.
A Bird's Trace Through Empty Space
The tenth kind of pure compassion is named "true wisdom" and grounds itself in an image rather than an argument: every dharma is exactly like the trace a bird leaves flying through empty space — real in the moment of flight, yet leaving nothing behind for sentient beings, obscured by delusion, to ever perceive — and compassion arises precisely from observing this vanishing.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種清淨慈。何等為十？所謂：等心清淨慈，普攝眾生無所揀擇故；饒益清淨慈，隨有所作皆令歡喜故；攝物同己清淨慈，究竟皆令出生死故；不捨世間清淨慈，心常緣念集善根故；能至解脫清淨慈，普使眾生除滅一切諸煩惱故；出生菩提清淨慈，普使眾生發求一切智心故；世間無礙清淨慈，放大光明平等普照故；充滿虛空清淨慈，救護眾生無處不至故；法緣清淨慈，證於如如真實法故；無緣清淨慈，入於菩薩離生性故。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得如來無上廣大清淨慈。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of pure loving-kindness. What are these ten? Namely: the pure loving-kindness of an equal mind, because it universally gathers in sentient beings without any discrimination; the pure loving-kindness of benefiting others, because whatever it does causes them to rejoice; the pure loving-kindness of treating others as oneself, because it ultimately delivers them all from birth and death; the pure loving-kindness of never abandoning the world, because its mind constantly reflects on and accumulates roots of goodness; the pure loving-kindness able to reach liberation, because it universally causes sentient beings to eliminate every affliction; the pure loving-kindness that gives rise to awakening, because it universally causes sentient beings to give rise to the mind that seeks all-knowing wisdom; the pure loving-kindness unobstructed throughout the world, because it emits a great light that shines equally and universally; the pure loving-kindness that fills all of empty space, because it rescues and protects sentient beings, reaching everywhere without exception; the pure loving-kindness conditioned on the dharma, because it realizes the true dharma of suchness; and the pure loving-kindness conditioned on nothing at all, because it enters a bodhisattva's own nature free of birth. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within this dharma, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, vast, pure loving-kindness.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種清淨悲。何等為十？所謂：無儔伴清淨悲，獨發其心故。無疲厭清淨悲，代一切眾生受苦，不以為勞故。難處受生清淨悲，為度眾生故。善趣受生清淨悲，示現無常故。為邪定眾生清淨悲，歷劫不捨弘誓故。不著己樂清淨悲，普與眾生快樂故。不求恩報清淨悲，修潔其心故。能除顛倒清淨悲，說如實法故。菩薩摩訶薩知一切法本性清淨、無染著、無熱惱，以客塵煩惱故而受眾苦；如是知已，於諸眾生而起大悲，名：本性清淨，為說無垢清淨光明法故。菩薩摩訶薩知一切法如空中鳥迹，眾生癡翳不能照了；觀察於彼，起大悲心，名：真實智，為其開示涅槃法故。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得如來無上廣大清淨悲。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of pure compassion. What are these ten? Namely: the pure compassion without companion, because it gives rise to this mind alone. The pure compassion free of weariness, because it takes on every sentient being's suffering in their place without regarding it as toil. The pure compassion of taking birth in perilous places, because it is for the sake of delivering sentient beings. The pure compassion of taking birth in fortunate destinies, because it manifests impermanence. The pure compassion for sentient beings of fixed wrong destiny, because it never abandons its vast vow throughout every kalpa. The pure compassion unattached to its own pleasure, because it universally gives happiness to sentient beings. The pure compassion that seeks no repayment of kindness, because it cultivates and purifies its own mind. The pure compassion able to remove distorted views, because it teaches the dharma exactly as it truly is. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva, knowing that every dharma is originally pure in nature, free of defilement and free of feverish affliction, and that it is only because of incidental, adventitious afflictions that beings undergo every suffering — knowing this, gives rise to great compassion for every sentient being, named "original purity," in order to teach the stainless, pure, and radiant dharma. A bodhisattva-mahāsattva, knowing that every dharma is exactly like the trace of a bird's flight through empty space, which sentient beings, obscured by the film of delusion, are unable to perceive clearly — observing this, gives rise to a mind of great compassion, named "true wisdom," in order to reveal to them the dharma of nirvāṇa. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within this dharma, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, vast, pure compassion.
知一切法如空中鳥迹，眾生癡翳不能照了 — knowing that every dharma is exactly like the trace of a bird's flight through empty space, which sentient beings, obscured by the film of delusion, are unable to perceive clearly. Unlike the eight preceding entries, each anchored in a specific act or attitude, this compassion is grounded purely in a way of seeing — the same emptiness of every dharma that a bodhisattva perceives clearly is, for beings clouded by delusion, entirely invisible, and it is this gap in perception, not any particular suffering, that gives rise to compassion here.
Part 773 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-eight. Part 774 opens ten kinds of pure joy, beginning with the joy of giving rise to the mind of awakening.