Fascicle Sixty-One Complete
Hearing Mañjuśrī's teaching, the monks attain a samādhi vast enough to see every buddha and every world in the ten directions at once — and Mañjuśrī closes the fascicle by urging them into Samantabhadra's own practice, the ocean of great vows that purifies mind, body, and finally grants a body that never leaves his own feet even while appearing before every buddha everywhere.
Unobstructed Eye Seeing Every Buddha's Domain
The samādhi's own name announces its scope: every buddha and every world, every being's own past and future lives, every tathāgata's own former-life stories and turnings of the dharma-wheel, all made visible and audible and memorable at once.
時，諸比丘聞此法已，則得三昧，名：無礙眼見一切佛境界。得此三昧故，悉見十方無量無邊一切世界諸佛如來，及其所有道場眾會；亦悉見彼十方世界一切諸趣所有眾生；亦悉見彼一切世界種種差別；亦悉見彼一切世界所有微塵；亦悉見彼諸世界中，一切眾生所住宮殿，以種種寶而為莊嚴；及亦聞彼諸佛如來種種言音演說諸法文辭訓釋，悉皆解了；亦能觀察彼世界中一切眾生諸根心欲；亦能憶念彼世界中一切眾生前後十生；亦能憶念彼世界中過去、未來各十劫事；亦能憶念彼諸如來十本生事、十成正覺、十轉法輪、十種神通、十種說法、十種教誡、十種辯才；又即成就十千菩提心、十千三昧、十千波羅蜜，悉皆清淨；得大智慧圓滿光明，得菩薩十神通，柔軟微妙，住菩提心，堅固不動。
At that time, once the monks heard this dharma, they attained a samādhi named: Unobstructed Eye Seeing Every Buddha's Domain. Having attained this samādhi, they saw in full every buddha and tathāgata throughout every measureless, boundless world in the ten directions, together with every one of their own assemblies at the site of awakening; they also saw in full every sentient being in every destiny throughout those worlds in the ten directions; they also saw in full every kind of difference among all those worlds; they also saw in full every mote of dust contained in all those worlds; they also saw in full, within all those worlds, the palaces where every sentient being dwells, adorned with every kind of treasure; and they also heard every kind of voice in which those buddhas and tathāgatas proclaim every dharma, and understood in full every word and every explanation of its meaning; they were also able to observe the faculties and the mental inclinations of every sentient being within those worlds; they were also able to remember ten of every sentient being's own past and future lives within those worlds; they were also able to remember the events of ten past eons and ten future eons within those worlds; they were also able to remember, of those tathāgatas, ten of their own former-life stories, ten attainments of true enlightenment, ten turnings of the dharma-wheel, ten kinds of spiritual power, ten kinds of dharma-teaching, ten kinds of instruction, and ten kinds of eloquence; and they at once accomplished ten thousand minds of awakening, ten thousand samādhis, and ten thousand pāramitās, every one of them entirely pure; they attained the perfect and complete light of great wisdom, and attained the bodhisattva's own ten spiritual powers, soft and subtle, abiding in the mind of awakening, firm and unmoving.
無礙眼見一切佛境界 — Unobstructed Eye Seeing Every Buddha's Domain. Everything the samādhi grants — sight, hearing, memory of others' lives, memory of eons past and future — proceeds from a single named faculty: an eye without obstruction. What such an eye sees is not a single scene but the domain itself, entire.
Into the Ocean of Great Vows
Fascicle sixty-one closes on a chain of consequence, each link named by its own cause: pure vows lead to a pure mind, a pure mind to a pure body, a pure body to lightness and agility, and agility to a spiritual power so complete that these monks can stand before every buddha everywhere without ever once leaving the ground beneath Mañjuśrī's own feet.
爾時，文殊師利菩薩勸諸比丘住普賢行；住普賢行已，入大願海；入大願海已，成就大願海。以成就大願海故，心清淨；心清淨故，身清淨；身清淨故，身輕利；身清淨、輕利故，得大神通無有退轉；得此神通故，不離文殊師利足下，普於十方一切佛所悉現其身，具足成就一切佛法。大方廣佛華嚴經卷第六十一
At that time, Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva urged the monks to abide in Samantabhadra's own practice; and once abiding in Samantabhadra's own practice, to enter the ocean of great vows; and once entering the ocean of great vows, to accomplish the ocean of great vows. Because of accomplishing the ocean of great vows, their minds became pure; because their minds became pure, their bodies became pure; because their bodies became pure, their bodies became light and agile; because their bodies became pure and light and agile, they attained great spiritual power without ever regressing; and because of attaining this spiritual power, without ever departing from beneath Mañjuśrī's own feet, they manifested their own bodies universally at the place of every buddha throughout the ten directions, accomplishing every buddha's own dharma in full completeness.
Fascicle Sixty-One of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra
不離文殊師利足下，普於十方一切佛所悉現其身 — without ever departing from beneath Mañjuśrī's own feet, they manifested their own bodies universally at the place of every buddha throughout the ten directions. Fascicle sixty-one ends on a single body in two places at once: never leaving Mañjuśrī, and yet standing before every buddha everywhere — the ocean of great vows resolving, in the end, into a spiritual power that erases any real distance between the two.
Part 892 Complete — Fascicle 61 Complete
This closes fascicle sixty-one and chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, continues into fascicle sixty-two. Part 893 opens fascicle sixty-two, continuing the account of Sudhana's own pilgrimage as it begins to unfold.