Ten Kinds of Wisdom as Supporting Equipment Begin
A new list opens, describing ten kinds of wisdom as supporting equipment for the path. The first five move from drawing close to a learned, true, good friend, through mindfulness and delight in the dharma, to a mind that shoulders the six pāramitās and has already brought the four immeasurables to maturity.
A Vessel Fit for the Buddha-Dharma
The second entry names its purpose directly: leaving behind arrogance and coarseness in body, speech, and mind is what makes the body itself fit to be a vessel for the buddha-dharma. The entries that follow build on that same readiness — mindfulness never scattered, delight in the dharma never wearied, and a mind already shouldering the six pāramitās and matured in the four immeasurables.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種智慧助道具。何等為十？所謂：親近多聞真善知識，恭敬供養，尊重禮拜，種種隨順，不違其教，是為一；一切正直無虛矯故。永離憍慢，常行謙敬，身、語、意業無有麁獷，柔和善順，不偽不曲，是為二；其身堪作佛法器故。念慧隨覺未曾散亂，慚愧柔和，心安不動，常憶六念，常行六敬，常隨順住六堅固法，是為三；與十種智為方便故。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of wisdom as supporting equipment for the path. What are these ten? Namely: drawing close to a learned, true, good friend, revering and making offerings to them, honoring and prostrating before them, according with them in every way, never violating their teaching — this is the first, because it is entirely upright and free of any pretense. Forever leaving behind arrogance and conceit, constantly practicing humility and reverence, the deeds of body, speech, and mind free of any coarseness, gentle and compliant, neither false nor crooked — this is the second, because the body thereby becomes fit to be a vessel for the buddha-dharma. Mindfulness and wisdom following awareness never once scattered, a sense of shame and conscientiousness gentle and composed, the mind settled and unmoving, constantly recollecting the six recollections, constantly practicing the six reverences, constantly according with and abiding in the six firm dharmas — this is the third, because it serves as skillful means for the ten kinds of wisdom.
樂法、樂義，以法為樂，常樂聽聞無有厭足，捨離世論及世言說，專心聽受出世間語，遠離小乘，入大乘慧，是為四；一心憶念無散動故。六波羅蜜心專荷負，四種梵住行已成熟，隨順明法悉善修行，聰敏智人皆勤請問，遠離惡趣，歸向善道，心常愛樂，正念觀察，調伏己情，守護他意，是為五；堅固修行真實行故。
Delighting in the dharma, delighting in its meaning, taking the dharma itself as joy, constantly delighting in hearing it without ever growing weary, giving up worldly debate and worldly discourse, single-mindedly listening to and receiving world-transcending speech, staying far from the lesser vehicle and entering the wisdom of the great vehicle — this is the fourth, because the mind recollects single-mindedly without any scattering. The mind single-mindedly shouldering the six pāramitās, the practice of the four immeasurables already brought to maturity, according with the illuminating dharma and practicing it thoroughly and well, constantly and diligently questioning the intelligent and wise, staying far from the evil destinies and turning toward the good path, the mind constantly delighting, rightly mindful in observation, taming one's own feelings, guarding the intentions of others — this is the fifth, because it firmly cultivates true and genuine practice.
其身堪作佛法器故 — because the body thereby becomes fit to be a vessel for the buddha-dharma. The second entry gives an unusually concrete reason for shedding arrogance and coarseness: not merely virtue for its own sake, but a kind of physical readiness, the body itself made into a container capable of holding the dharma.
Part 777 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-eight. Part 778 completes the ten kinds of wisdom as supporting equipment for the path, moving through observing the five aggregates as illusion to seeing the dharma-realm's own purity.