One Body as Measureless Bodies
The verse turns here from metaphor to direct paradox, stated one after another without softening: a single body manifesting as measureless distinct bodies, a single sound expounding every language, a body of affliction forever left behind that still manifests a body, a mind constantly still that still adorns every land.
Taking Birth Without Abiding in It
The closing pair of this stanza sequence holds together what would ordinarily be a contradiction: the bodhisattva takes birth in every place, and yet does not abide in that taking of birth at all — knowing the body to be exactly like empty space, he manifests it in whatever way the mind of the moment calls for, without the manifestation ever becoming a place to settle.
如是一切智，無盡無所依，
我今當演說，令眾生歡喜。
雖知諸法相，如幻悉空寂，
而以悲願心，及佛威神力，
現神通變化，種種無量事；
如是諸功德，汝等應聽受。
一身能示現，無量差別身，
無心無境界，普應一切眾。
一音中具演，一切諸言音；
眾生語言法，隨類皆能作。
"This very all-knowing wisdom is inexhaustible and rests upon nothing at all; I shall now expound it, causing sentient beings to rejoice.
Though he knows that the mark of every dharma is exactly like an illusion, entirely empty and still, yet through a mind of compassion and vow, and through the buddha's own awesome spiritual power, he manifests every kind of measureless spiritual transformation; merits such as these, all of you should listen to and receive.
A single body is able to manifest as measureless distinct bodies, without mind and without any domain, universally responding to every assembly of beings.
Within a single sound, he fully expounds every kind of speech and sound; the languages of sentient beings, he is able to produce according to whatever kind each being is.
永離煩惱身，而現自在身，
知法不可說，而作種種說。
其心常寂滅，清淨如虛空，
而普莊嚴剎，示現一切眾。
於身無所著，而能示現身；
一切世間中，隨應而受生。
雖生一切處，亦不住受生，
知身如虛空，種種隨心現。
Forever free of a body of affliction, he yet manifests a body of sovereign freedom; knowing that the dharma cannot be spoken, he yet speaks it in every kind of way.
His mind is constantly still and extinguished, pure like empty space, and yet he universally adorns every land, manifesting himself before every assembly.
Toward the body he has nothing at all to cling to, and yet he is able to manifest a body; throughout every world, he takes birth according to whatever is fitting.
Though he takes birth in every place, he does not abide in that taking of birth; knowing the body to be exactly like empty space, he manifests it in every kind of way according to the mind.
雖生一切處，亦不住受生 — though he takes birth in every place, he does not abide in that taking of birth. This closes a run of six paired paradoxes — body without body, mind without abiding — with the one that governs the sutra's whole preceding sequence of biographical events: every birth this chapter narrated, from Tuṣita to the royal palace, is now named as never having been a place to settle in the first place.
Part 810 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-nine. Part 811 continues the verse, moving through a bodhisattva's own body pervading every place, constant reverence toward the two-footed most excellent one, and entering samādhi within measureless dharma-gates.