Ten Kinds of Meaning, Ten Kinds of Dharma
Ten kinds of meaning range from extensive learning grounded in firm practice to great parinirvāṇa itself, defined here not as an end to practice but as extinguishing suffering while still cultivating every bodhisattva deed. Ten kinds of dharma follow, closing on relinquishing every substratum of rebirth in nirvāṇa while continuing, without interruption, to give rise to bodhisattva practice.
Nirvāṇa That Never Stops Practicing
Both lists here converge on the same refusal: the tenth kind of meaning defines great parinirvāṇa as extinguishing suffering while still cultivating bodhisattva practice, and the tenth kind of dharma closes on relinquishing every substratum of rebirth in nirvāṇa while continuing to give rise to that very practice without interruption — neither treats nirvāṇa as a stopping point.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種義。何等為十？所謂：多聞義，堅固修行故；法義，善巧思擇故；空義，第一義空故；寂靜義，離諸眾生諠憒故；不可說義，不著一切語言故；如實義，了達三世平等故；法界義，一切諸法一味故；真如義，一切如來順入故；實際義，了知究竟如實故；大般涅槃義，滅一切苦而修菩薩諸行故。是為十。若諸菩薩安住此法，則得一切智無上義。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of meaning. What are these ten? Namely: the meaning of extensive learning, because its practice is firm; the meaning of the dharma, because it skillfully reflects and discerns; the meaning of emptiness, because it is the emptiness of ultimate meaning; the meaning of stillness, because it is free of every sentient being's noise and disturbance; the meaning of the unspeakable, because it is unattached to any language at all; the meaning of things as they truly are, because it fully understands the equality of the three times; the meaning of the dharma-realm, because every dharma shares a single flavor; the meaning of suchness, because every tathāgata enters it in accord; the meaning of ultimate reality, because it fully understands the ultimate exactly as it is; and the meaning of great parinirvāṇa, because it extinguishes every suffering while cultivating every bodhisattva practice. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within this dharma, they attain the unsurpassed meaning of all-knowing wisdom.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種法。何等為十？所謂：真實法，如說修行故；離取法，能取、所取悉離故；無諍法，無有一切惑諍故；寂滅法，滅除一切熱惱故；離欲法，一切貪欲皆斷故；無分別法，攀緣分別永息故；無生法，猶如虛空不動故；無為法，離生、住、滅諸相故；本性法，自性無染清淨故；捨一切烏波提涅槃法，能生一切菩薩行，修習不斷故。是為十。若諸菩薩安住其中，則得如來無上廣大法。
Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of dharma. What are these ten? Namely: the true dharma, because it practices exactly as it is spoken; the dharma free of grasping, because it is entirely free of both a grasper and what is grasped; the dharma of non-contention, because it has no confusion or contention of any kind; the dharma of cessation, because it extinguishes and removes every feverish affliction; the dharma free of desire, because every craving and desire is entirely cut off; the dharma free of discrimination, because every clinging discrimination is forever put to rest; the dharma of non-arising, because it is exactly like empty space, unmoving; the unconditioned dharma, because it is free of every mark of arising, abiding, and ceasing; the dharma of original nature, because its own nature is undefiled and pure; and the dharma of relinquishing every upadhi in nirvāṇa, because it is able to give rise to every bodhisattva practice, cultivating it without interruption. These are the ten. If bodhisattvas abide within these, they attain the tathāgata's own unsurpassed, vast dharma.
捨一切烏波提涅槃法，能生一切菩薩行，修習不斷故 — the dharma of relinquishing every upadhi in nirvāṇa, because it is able to give rise to every bodhisattva practice, cultivating it without interruption. Upadhi names the substratum or basis that carries a being onward into further rebirth; relinquishing every such basis would ordinarily mean the end of any further activity, yet this entry pairs that relinquishment directly with practice continuing without interruption.
Part 775 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-eight. Part 776 opens ten kinds of merit as supporting equipment for the path, beginning with urging sentient beings to give rise to the mind of awakening.