Dwelling in Every Māra's Own Palace
One who transcends sentient beings yet never abandons them for teaching's sake; who relies on no land yet travels adorning every world, making offerings to every buddha; who approaches every buddha unattached; who depends on a good friend without craving any dharma's own taste; and who dwells even within every māra's own palace, untouched by desire.
Never Abandoning Omniscience, Even Amid Every Mark
「……普照饒益一切眾生者；得一切入者；出過眾生，為教化故，而不捨離者；不依一切剎，而遊行莊嚴一切世界，供養佛者；詣一切佛無染著者；依善知識，不味法者；住一切魔宮，不樂欲者；入一切相，而不捨離一切智者；了一切眾生身，無我、無眾生、無二觀者；……」
"… of one who universally illumines and benefits every sentient being; of one who attains every entry; of one who transcends sentient beings, yet, for the sake of teaching them, never abandons them; of one who does not rely on any land, yet travels about adorning every world, making offerings to buddhas; of one who approaches every buddha unattached to anything; of one who depends on a good friend without becoming attached to the taste of any dharma; of one who dwells within every māra's own palace without delighting in desire; of one who enters every mark, yet never abandons omniscience; of one who fully knows every sentient being's own body as without self, without sentient being, and without duality … [the reflection continues]"
"Dwelling within every māra's own palace without delighting in desire" is among the boldest claims in this whole list — not merely avoiding māra's domain but actually residing within it, immune to its own defining temptation. Fazang reads this alongside "depends on a good friend without becoming attached to the taste of any dharma" as two forms of the same discipline: dwelling amid what would ordinarily corrupt (a māra's own palace, a dharma's own pleasing taste) while remaining entirely unmoved, whether the danger is external temptation or a subtler attachment to the teaching itself.
Part 283 In Progress
The reflection continues toward its close. Part 284 continues with one's own body containing every world without destroying the dharma-nature, and manifesting in every world without ever leaving a hair's tip.
Continue to Part 284 →