Good-Wealth's Third Teacher Is Named
After twelve hundred years within a single dharma-gate, Ocean-Cloud still calls his own knowledge a single point against ten oceans of bodhisattva practice he can only name, not enter. He sends Good-Wealth onward once more — south, along the road to Laṅkā, to a village by the sea and a monk named Well-Abiding.
Ten Oceans He Cannot Enter
Having just described his own attainment in oceanic terms, Ocean-Cloud now names ten further oceans — of practice, of vows, of sentient beings, of lands, of merit — that belong to the great bodhisattvas alone, oceans he can point to but never claims to have entered himself.
「善男子！我唯知此普眼法門。如諸菩薩摩訶薩深入一切菩薩行海，隨其願力而修行故；入大願海，於無量劫住世間故；入一切眾生海，隨其心樂廣利益故；入一切眾生心海，出生十力無礙智光故；入一切眾生根海，應時教化悉令調伏故；入一切剎海，成滿本願嚴淨佛剎故；入一切佛海，願常供養諸如來故；入一切法海，能以智慧咸悟入故；入一切功德海，一一修行令具足故；入一切眾生言辭海，於一切剎轉正法輪故。而我云何能知能說彼功德行？
"Good son! I know only this Universal Eye dharma-gate. As for how the great bodhisattvas deeply enter the ocean of every bodhisattva's own practice, cultivating in accordance with the power of their own vows; how they enter the ocean of great vows, abiding in the world for measureless eons; how they enter the ocean of every sentient being, broadly benefiting them according to what their own minds delight in; how they enter the ocean of every sentient being's own mind, giving rise to the unobstructed light of wisdom that is the ten powers; how they enter the ocean of every sentient being's own faculties, teaching and transforming them at the fitting time, taming every one of them entirely; how they enter the ocean of every land, fulfilling their own original vows and adorning and purifying every buddha-land; how they enter the ocean of every buddha, vowing to constantly make offerings to every tathāgata; how they enter the ocean of every dharma, able to awaken into and enter it entirely through wisdom; how they enter the ocean of every merit, cultivating each and every practice until it is entirely complete; how they enter the ocean of every sentient being's own speech, turning the wheel of the true dharma throughout every land — how could I possibly know and speak of that meritorious practice?
我唯知此普眼法門 — I know only this Universal Eye dharma-gate. Ocean-Cloud has just spent an entire Part describing twelve hundred years and ten dhāraṇī-lights of attainment, and still opens his confession of limitation with the word "only." Scale, in this sūtra, is always relative to what still lies beyond it.
South Along the Road to Laṅkā
Ocean-Cloud's directions this time are precise to the yojana — sixty of them, south, along a named road, to a named village, to a monk whose own name, Well-Abiding, will turn out to describe him literally: Good-Wealth finds him not on solid ground at all, but walking through open air.
「善男子！從此南行六十由旬，楞伽道邊有一聚落，名為：海岸；彼有比丘，名曰：善住。汝詣彼問：菩薩云何淨菩薩行？」時，善財童子禮海雲足，右遶瞻仰，辭退而去。
"Good son! Traveling sixty yojanas south from here, beside the road to Laṅkā there is a village, named: Sea-Shore; there is a monk there, named: Well-Abiding. Go there and ask him: how does a bodhisattva purify the bodhisattva's own practice?" At that time, the boy Good-Wealth bowed at the feet of Ocean-Cloud, circled him to the right while gazing upon him, and took his leave and departed.
有一比丘，名曰：善住 — there is a monk there, named: Well-Abiding. The name will prove literal rather than merely honorific: this teacher does not sit or stand on solid ground when Good-Wealth finds him, but abides — well-abides — moving through empty space itself.
Part 911 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-two. Part 912 turns to Good-Wealth's own journey to Sea-Shore village, where he finds Well-Abiding walking back and forth through open air, attended by countless devas offering heavenly flowers and music.