Every Power of a Buddha, Attained at Once
Māyā's own vision continues: every great vow reaching its very end, a single thought-moment filling every buddha's own state, and form-bodies subduing every māra's own power. She attains the power of merit, of wholesome dharmas, of every buddha, and of omniscience all together, her wisdom knowing the whole ocean of every sentient being's own mind, faculties, and desires.
Every Vow Complete, Every Power of a Buddha
「諸大誓願究竟，化度一切眾生。一念充遍諸佛境界，出生菩薩自在神力。顯現無量清淨色身，降一切魔力，增長功德力，生善法力，得一切佛力，具菩薩力，生一切智力。如來智慧普照一切，悉知無量眾生心海，了知眾生諸根欲性。」
"Every great vow reaching its very end, teaching and delivering every sentient being. Within a single thought-moment, filling every buddha's own state, giving rise to the bodhisattva's own sovereign spiritual power. Manifesting boundless, pure form-bodies, subduing the power of every māra, increasing the power of merit, giving rise to the power of wholesome dharmas, attaining the power of every buddha, endowed with the power of a bodhisattva, giving rise to the power of omniscience. The tathāgata's own wisdom universally illumines all, fully knowing the ocean of boundless sentient beings' own minds, thoroughly understanding sentient beings' own faculties and desiring natures."
This run of six named "powers" — subduing māras, merit, wholesome dharmas, every buddha's own power, the bodhisattva's own power, omniscience — moves in an unbroken ascent from combating obstruction to holding the very power of a buddha directly, without pausing to distinguish where Māyā's own attainment ends and a buddha's own attainment begins. This collapsing of the distinction is deliberate: the passage is building, stanza by stanza, toward the revelation that Māyā's own capacity is not merely bodhisattva-adjacent but functionally identical to what a buddha's own body can do.
Part 203 In Progress
Every power of a buddha is now catalogued as Māyā's own. Part 204 closes this whole dense passage — a single body filling boundless buddha-lands, and the fulfillment, at last, of her own vow to become a mother to bodhisattvas everywhere.
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