A Tathāgata Seated Upon the Lotus
Ocean-Cloud's own vision answers his twelve-year question in a way no ocean could: seated cross-legged upon the vast flower, a tathāgata whose body rises all the way to the highest heaven — every one of his qualities named and, in the same breath, called inconceivable.
Nineteen Qualities, Each Inconceivable
Ocean-Cloud names one quality of the buddha after another — his seat, his assembly, his marks, his voice, his fearlessness — and appends the same word to every single one: inconceivable. Naming becomes its own kind of confession that language cannot actually capture what is being named.
「我時見彼蓮華之上，有一如來結跏趺坐，其身從此上至有頂。寶蓮華座不可思議，道場眾會不可思議，諸相成就不可思議，隨好圓滿不可思議，神通變化不可思議，色相清淨不可思議，無見頂相不可思議，廣長舌相不可思議，善巧言說不可思議，圓滿音聲不可思議，無邊際力不可思議，清淨無畏不可思議，廣大辯才不可思議。又念彼佛往修諸行不可思議，自在成道不可思議，妙音演法不可思議，普門示現種種莊嚴不可思議，隨其左右見各差別不可思議，一切利益皆令圓滿不可思議。
"At that time I saw, upon that lotus flower, a tathāgata seated cross-legged, his body rising from there all the way up to the Peak of Existence. His jeweled lotus-flower seat was inconceivable; the assembly at his site of awakening was inconceivable; the accomplishment of his every excellent mark was inconceivable; the perfection of his every minor mark was inconceivable; his spiritual power and transformation was inconceivable; the purity of his physical form was inconceivable; the crown-mark on his head that cannot be seen was inconceivable; the mark of his broad and long tongue was inconceivable; his skillful and eloquent speech was inconceivable; his perfect voice was inconceivable; his boundless power was inconceivable; his pure fearlessness was inconceivable; his vast and expansive eloquence was inconceivable. I further reflected: that buddha's every practice cultivated in the past was inconceivable; his self-mastered accomplishment of the path was inconceivable; his wondrous voice proclaiming the dharma was inconceivable; his universal gate manifesting every kind of adornment was inconceivable; the different way he appears to each person to his left and right was inconceivable; and the way he brings every benefit to full completion was inconceivable.
隨其左右見各差別不可思議 — the different way he appears to each person to his left and right was inconceivable. Among the nineteen inconceivable qualities, this one names something almost intimate amid the cosmic scale of the rest: the same buddha appears differently to whoever stands beside him, no two witnesses seeing quite the same thing.
A Hand Upon His Head
After naming what cannot be conceived, the tathāgata does something direct and physical: reaches out his own hand, touches the crown of Ocean-Cloud's head, and speaks a single dharma-gate said to contain within it every dharma-wheel of every buddha at once.
「時，此如來即伸右手而摩我頂，為我演說普眼法門，開示一切如來境界，顯發一切菩薩諸行，闡明一切諸佛妙法，一切法輪悉入其中，能淨一切諸佛國土，能摧一切異道邪論，能滅一切諸魔軍眾，能令眾生皆生歡喜，能照一切眾生心行，能了一切眾生諸根，隨眾生心悉令開悟。
At that time, this tathāgata then extended his right hand and touched the crown of my head, and proclaimed for me the dharma-gate of the Universal Eye, revealing the domain of every tathāgata, manifesting every one of the bodhisattva's own practices, illuminating the wondrous dharma of every buddha — every dharma-wheel entering entirely within it, able to purify every buddha's own land, able to crush every non-Buddhist teaching's own false doctrine, able to destroy every army of every māra, able to cause every sentient being to give rise to joy, able to illuminate the mental conduct of every sentient being, able to comprehend every faculty of every sentient being, and, according to each sentient being's own mind, cause every one of them to awaken.
一切法輪悉入其中 — every dharma-wheel entering entirely within it. The Universal Eye dharma-gate is described not as one teaching among many, but as a single gate that every other teaching enters into — the twelve-year contemplation of an ocean's own vastness answered, in the end, by something even the ocean cannot contain.
Part 909 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-two. Part 910 turns to how long Ocean-Cloud held this single dharma-gate, and to his own admission of what still lies beyond it, as he prepares to name Good-Wealth's third teacher.