What Bodhicitta Was Truly Raised For
Rest-and-Release closes her denial list with a fourth object — upholding a tathāgata's own bequeathed teaching — and a briefer list of further things bodhicitta was never raised for, then turns the entire structure around: every single denial becomes its own positive counterpart, each one now something bodhicitta truly exists to accomplish, entirely without remainder.
A Fourth Denial, Then a Briefer Summary
Upholding a tathāgata's own bequeathed teaching receives the same three-tiered scaling as the objects before it, and then the list itself changes shape — shorter clauses now, each naming a different single thing, from a buddha's own vow to a single being's own ocean of habitual affliction.
不為住持一如來遺法故發菩提心，乃至不為住持不可說不可說轉如來遺法故發菩提心；不為住持一世界如來遺法故發菩提心，乃至不為住持不可說不可說轉世界如來遺法故發菩提心；不為住持一閻浮提微塵數世界如來遺法故發菩提心，乃至不為住持不可說不可說轉佛剎微塵數世界如來遺法故發菩提心。如是略說，不為滿一佛誓願故，不為往一佛國土故，不為入一佛眾會故，不為持一佛法眼故，不為轉一佛法輪故，不為知一世界中諸劫次第故，不為知一眾生心海故，不為知一眾生根海故，不為知一眾生業海故，不為知一眾生行海故，不為知一眾生煩惱海故，不為知一眾生煩惱習海故，乃至不為知不可說不可說轉佛剎微塵數眾生煩惱習海故，發菩提心。
A bodhisattva does not give rise to the mind of bodhi for the sake of upholding a single tathāgata's own bequeathed teaching, and does not give rise to it even for the sake of upholding the bequeathed teachings of tathāgatas numbering a Turning of the Unspeakably Unspeakable; does not give rise to it for the sake of upholding the bequeathed teaching of the tathāgatas of a single world, and does not give rise to it even for the sake of upholding the bequeathed teaching of the tathāgatas of worlds numbering a Turning of the Unspeakably Unspeakable; does not give rise to it for the sake of upholding the bequeathed teaching of the tathāgatas of worlds as numerous as the fine motes of dust in Jambudvīpa, and does not give rise to it even for the sake of upholding the bequeathed teaching of the tathāgatas of worlds as numerous as the fine motes of dust in a Turning of the Unspeakably Unspeakable buddha-lands. To state this briefly, one does not give rise to the mind of bodhi for the sake of fulfilling a single buddha's own vow, for the sake of going to a single buddha's own land, for the sake of entering a single buddha's own assembly, for the sake of upholding a single buddha's own dharma-eye, for the sake of turning a single buddha's own dharma-wheel, for the sake of knowing the sequence of every kalpa within a single world, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of mind, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of faculties, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of karma, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of conduct, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of affliction, for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of habitual afflictive tendencies, and does not give rise to it even for the sake of knowing the ocean of habitual afflictive tendencies of beings as numerous as the fine motes of dust in a Turning of the Unspeakably Unspeakable buddha-lands.
不為知一眾生煩惱習海故 — not for the sake of knowing a single being's own ocean of habitual afflictive tendencies. After several clauses naming external things — vows, lands, assemblies, dharma-wheels — the list turns inward toward a single being's own mind, faculties, karma, conduct, and affliction, each one already called an "ocean" even before any number of beings has been multiplied at all.
Every Denial, Mirrored Into Its Own Purpose
Without pausing, the passage reverses direction entirely: every object just denied — beings, buddhas, lands, teachings, vows, oceans of mind and karma and affliction — returns one by one as something bodhicitta truly exists to accomplish, each with the same closing phrase, "entirely without remainder."
「欲教化調伏一切眾生悉無餘故發菩提心，欲承事供養一切諸佛悉無餘故發菩提心，欲嚴淨一切諸佛國土悉無餘故發菩提心，欲護持一切諸佛正教悉無餘故發菩提心，欲成滿一切如來誓願悉無餘故發菩提心，欲往一切諸佛國土悉無餘故發菩提心，欲入一切諸佛眾會悉無餘故發菩提心，欲知一切世界中諸劫次第悉無餘故發菩提心，欲知一切眾生心海悉無餘故發菩提心，欲知一切眾生根海悉無餘故發菩提心，欲知一切眾生業海悉無餘故發菩提心，欲知一切眾生行海悉無餘故發菩提心，欲滅一切眾生諸煩惱海悉無餘故發菩提心，欲拔一切眾生煩惱習海悉無餘故發菩提心。善男子！取要言之，菩薩以如是等百萬阿僧祇方便行故發菩提心。
"It is in order to teach and tame every being entirely without remainder that one gives rise to the mind of bodhi; in order to attend upon and make offerings to every buddha entirely without remainder; in order to adorn and purify every buddha's own land entirely without remainder; in order to guard and uphold every buddha's own true teaching entirely without remainder; in order to fulfill every tathāgata's own vow entirely without remainder; in order to go to every buddha's own land entirely without remainder; in order to enter every buddha's own assembly entirely without remainder; in order to know the sequence of every kalpa within every world entirely without remainder; in order to know every being's own ocean of mind entirely without remainder; in order to know every being's own ocean of faculties entirely without remainder; in order to know every being's own ocean of karma entirely without remainder; in order to know every being's own ocean of conduct entirely without remainder; in order to extinguish every being's own ocean of affliction entirely without remainder; and in order to pull out every being's own ocean of habitual afflictive tendencies entirely without remainder that one gives rise to the mind of bodhi. Good son, to state the essential point, a bodhisattva gives rise to the mind of bodhi through skillful means such as these, numbering a hundred million asaṃkhyeyas."
悉無餘故 — entirely without remainder. Every clause in the denial list said bodhicitta was never raised for a finite, countable goal, no matter how vast; every clause in this mirrored list says it exists for a goal that admits no remainder at all — the same objects, but measured now by completeness rather than by size.
Part 952 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-four. Part 953 turns to Rest-and-Release's own vow — that it will never be finished until every world is purified and every being's affliction pulled out — and Good-Wealth's question asking the name of her liberation.