A Hundred Million Dhāraṇī-Gates Begin
Loving-Conduct begins naming what a hundred million asaṃkhyeyas of dhāraṇī-gates actually are — starting with buddha-lands, buddhas, and the dharma itself, moving through karma and samādhi, and closing this first stretch with nine distinct ways of knowing exactly what a being is.
Buddha-Lands, Karma, Samādhi, Mind, and Beings
Each named gate stands for its own complete dhāraṇī, and the sequence itself moves outward and inward by turns — from buddha-lands and the three times, to karma's own workings, to samādhi entered and left, to the mind's own dense forest, ending on nine separate ways of knowing a being to its very root.
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Namely: the dhāraṇī-gate of buddha-lands, the dhāraṇī-gate of buddhas, the dhāraṇī-gate of the dharma, the dhāraṇī-gate of beings, the dhāraṇī-gate of the past, the dhāraṇī-gate of the future, the dhāraṇī-gate of the present, the dhāraṇī-gate of the limit of permanent abiding, the dhāraṇī-gate of merit, the dhāraṇī-gate of merit's own aids to the path, the dhāraṇī-gate of wisdom, the dhāraṇī-gate of wisdom's own aids to the path, the dhāraṇī-gate of every vow, the dhāraṇī-gate of discerning every vow, the dhāraṇī-gate of gathering every practice, the dhāraṇī-gate of pure practice, the dhāraṇī-gate of perfected practice, the dhāraṇī-gate of karma, the dhāraṇī-gate of karma never lost or destroyed, the dhāraṇī-gate of karma's own flow, the dhāraṇī-gate of karma's own doing, the dhāraṇī-gate of abandoning evil karma, the dhāraṇī-gate of cultivating right karma, the dhāraṇī-gate of sovereignty over karma, the dhāraṇī-gate of wholesome conduct, the dhāraṇī-gate of upholding wholesome conduct, the dhāraṇī-gate of samādhi, the dhāraṇī-gate of according with samādhi, the dhāraṇī-gate of observing samādhi, the dhāraṇī-gate of samādhi's own domain, the dhāraṇī-gate of rising from samādhi, the dhāraṇī-gate of spiritual penetration, the dhāraṇī-gate of the ocean of mind, the dhāraṇī-gate of every kind of mind, the dhāraṇī-gate of the straightforward mind, the dhāraṇī-gate of illuminating the dense forest of mind, the dhāraṇī-gate of taming the mind into purity, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing where beings are born from, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own afflicted conduct, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing habitual afflictive tendencies, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing skillful means for affliction, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own understanding, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own conduct, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing the differences in beings' own conduct, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own nature, the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own desires, and the dhāraṇī-gate of knowing beings' own thoughts;
知眾生所從生 — knowing where beings are born from. This opens nine dhāraṇī-gates in a row devoted entirely to knowing beings, moving from their origin through their affliction, understanding, conduct, nature, desire, and finally their own thoughts — a complete inventory of what there is to know about anyone at all.
Part 982 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-five. Part 983 turns to the next stretch of dhāraṇī-gates, moving from teaching and compassion through every kind of dharma and every kind of world, pure and impure alike.