A Single Pore Holding Every World

Living beings' own hearts and delights they understand entirely, and, in accordance with what fits, teach the Dharma to them; toward every defilement and every purity they are thoroughly versed, causing them to cultivate and correct themselves and enter the path. Immeasurable, countless samādhis — the bodhisattva, in a single thought, is able to enter every one of them; within them, the perception, the wisdom, and the object each involves, they thoroughly and skillfully understand, attaining sovereign mastery.

The bodhisattva who has obtained this vast and expansive wisdom swiftly advances toward bodhi, meeting no obstruction at all; wishing to benefit the multitudes of beings, in every place they proclaim and expound the Dharma of the great being. Skillfully knowing the world's own long and short kalpas, its months and half-months, its days and nights, they know that though lands each differ, their nature is equal — forever diligently contemplating, never indulging in negligence.

Universally they go to the worlds of the ten directions, and yet toward direction and place they grasp at nothing at all; they adorn and purify their lands entirely, leaving nothing left over, and yet have never once given rise to a discrimination that purity even exists. Whether a matter for living beings is possible or impossible, and the distinct recompense that each different karma summons forth — reflecting in accordance with the Buddha's own power, of all of this they understand entirely.

Every kind of nature there is throughout the whole world, every kind of practice and abiding within the three realms of existence, sharp faculties and middling and lesser faculties alike — all of this, without exception, they contemplate. Pure and impure, every kind of understanding, superior, inferior, and middling — all of it they clearly see; wherever living beings arrive and whatever they do, the unbroken continuity of the three realms of existence, all of it they are able to explain.

Meditative absorption, liberation, and every samādhi, the causes from which defilement and purity each arise differently, and the distinct suffering and happiness of former lives — purely cultivating the Buddha's own power, they are able to see all of it. Living beings' own karma and afflictions continue on through the destinies; cutting off these destinies, they attain tranquil extinction; every kind of defiled dharma never arises again, and, together with their own habitual seeds, all of it they understand.

Every affliction of the Tathāgata has been entirely removed and exhausted, and the light of great wisdom illumines the world; toward the Buddha's own ten powers, though the bodhisattva has not yet realized and attained them, they hold no doubt at all. The bodhisattva, within a single pore of their own skin, universally manifests immeasurable lands of the ten directions, whether mixed with defilement or entirely pure, and every kind of karmic action within them they are able to understand.

Within a single mote of dust there are immeasurable lands, immeasurable buddhas, and their buddha-children; each of those lands remains distinct, without any confusion at all, and, as with one, so with all, they see it entirely clearly. Within a single pore of their own skin they see the ten directions, filling the whole realm of empty space and every world within it; there is not a single place empty and without a buddha, and every one of those buddha-lands is entirely pure.

Within a pore of their own skin they see the buddha-lands, and see too every single living being — the three periods of time and the six destinies, each distinct, and days and nights, months and hours, in which some are bound and some liberated. Such great-wisdom bodhisattvas as these, single-mindedly advance toward the very rank of Dharma-king; reflecting in accordance with where the Buddha himself abides, they attain a boundless great joy.

The bodhisattva divides their own body into immeasurable hundreds of millions, making offerings to every single Tathāgata; their spiritual powers and manifest transformations are supreme, beyond all comparison, and wherever the Buddha himself has walked, they too are able to abide. At the place of immeasurable buddhas they earnestly look up in reverence, savoring every Dharma-treasury there is; seeing the buddhas and hearing the Dharma, they diligently cultivate and practice, their mind rejoicing as though drinking sweet ambrosia.

Already having obtained the Tathāgata's own supreme samādhi, skillfully entering every dharma, their wisdom increases; their faith is unmoving, like Mount Sumeru, and they universally become a treasury of merit for the multitudes of beings. Their mind of loving-kindness is vast and expansive, extending to every living being; they vow that all beings may swiftly accomplish the all-knowing wisdom, and yet they are forever without attachment, without any place of reliance, freed from every affliction and attaining sovereign mastery.