Every Buddha I See Arises from My Own Mind
Liberation names buddhas beyond counting — Amitābha among them, seen at will — and then undercuts the whole vision at its root: not one of them travels to him, and he travels to none of them, because every buddha and his own mind alike are dream, reflection, illusion, and echo.
Amitābha, Seen at Will
Liberation names eight further buddhas by name, each seen simply by wishing to see them — Amitābha among the first — and yet insists in the same breath that none of them has ever actually come to where he is, nor has he gone to any of them.
「善男子！我見如是等十方各十佛剎微塵數如來。彼諸如來不來至此，我不往彼。我若欲見安樂世界阿彌陀如來，隨意即見；我若欲見栴檀世界金剛光明如來、妙香世界寶光明如來、蓮華世界寶蓮華光明如來、妙金世界寂靜光如來、妙喜世界不動如來、善住世界師子如來、鏡光明世界月覺如來、寶師子莊嚴世界毘盧遮那如來，如是一切，悉皆即見。然彼如來不來至此，我身亦不往詣於彼。
"Good son! I see, throughout the ten directions in this way, tathāgatas as numerous as every mote of dust in ten buddha-lands, in each direction. Those tathāgatas do not come here to this place, and I do not go there to them. If I wish to see the tathāgata Amitābha in the world of Peace and Joy, I see him at once, according to my own will; if I wish to see the tathāgata Vajra Light in the world of Sandalwood, the tathāgata Jewel Light in the world of Wondrous Fragrance, the tathāgata Jewel Lotus-Flower Light in the world of Lotus Flower, the tathāgata Quiescent Light in the world of Wondrous Gold, the tathāgata Unmoving in the world of Wondrous Joy, the tathāgata Lion in the world of Well-Abiding, the tathāgata Moon-Awakening in the world of Mirror Light, the tathāgata Vairocana in the world of Jewel-Lion Adornment — every one of these, I see them all at once. And yet those tathāgatas do not come here to this place, nor does my own body go there to them.
彼諸如來不來至此，我身亦不往詣於彼 — those tathāgatas do not come here to this place, nor does my own body go there to them. Liberation names this twice, once before the list of buddhas and once after it, framing the entire catalogue of names between two identical denials — as though the vision itself needed to be bracketed on both sides against the assumption that seeing requires travel.
Dream, Reflection, Illusion, Echo
Liberation closes with four images in a row, each pairing every buddha with his own mind under the same description — and the conclusion he draws is not that the buddhas are unreal, but that what he sees of them arises entirely from within.
知一切佛及與我心，悉皆如夢；知一切佛猶如影像，自心如水；知一切佛所有色相及以自心，悉皆如幻；知一切佛及以己心，悉皆如響。我如是知，如是憶念：所見諸佛，皆由自心。
I know that every buddha and my own mind are both entirely like a dream; I know that every buddha is just like a reflected image, and my own mind is like water; I know that every buddha's own physical form and my own mind are both entirely like an illusion; and I know that every buddha and my own mind are both entirely like an echo. I know it in this way, and I call it to mind in this way: every buddha I see arises entirely from my own mind.
知一切佛猶如影像，自心如水 — I know that every buddha is just like a reflected image, and my own mind is like water. Of the four pairings, this one alone assigns each side a distinct role rather than calling both the same thing: the buddha is the reflection, the mind is the water that holds it — an image that still requires the water for the reflection to appear at all.
Part 926 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-three. Part 927 turns to Liberation's own extension of this teaching — how the bodhisattva's every practice, vow, and spiritual power likewise arise entirely from the mind alone — before he confesses the limit of his own attainment.