Without Ever Leaving a Hair's Tip
One whose own body contains every world without destroying the dharma-nature; who cultivates every vow throughout every future kalpa without grasping at any mark of length or brevity; and who, without ever leaving a single hair's-tip of space, manifests in every world, universally proclaiming the true Dharma for sentient beings.
A Single Body Containing Every World
「……自身容受一切世界，而不壞法性者；盡未來劫，修諸願行，而不取劫長短相者；不離一毛端處，而現一切世界，普為眾生說正法者；可尊重者；解甚深法者；達無二者；了無性者；善對治者；體法空者；住慈悲者；遠離一切聲聞、緣覺地者；……」
"… of one whose own body contains every world, yet without destroying the dharma-nature; of one who, throughout every kalpa yet to come, cultivates every vow and practice, yet without grasping at any mark of a kalpa's own length or brevity; of one who, without ever leaving a single hair's-tip of space, manifests in every world, universally proclaiming the true Dharma for the sake of sentient beings; one worthy of reverence; one who understands the most profound Dharma; one who penetrates non-duality; one who fully knows the absence of any nature; one skilled in counteraction; one who embodies the emptiness of every dharma; one who abides in compassion; one far removed from every ground of the śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas … [the reflection continues]"
"Without ever leaving a single hair's-tip of space, manifests in every world" restates, from the opposite direction, the same principle demonstrated by containing every world within one's own body — presence without displacement, whether the scale runs from small to vast or from a fixed point outward to everywhere. Fazang reads the shorter epithets that follow — worthy of reverence, understanding profound Dharma, penetrating non-duality — as a brief pause in the passage's own rhythm, gathering simpler qualities before the list resumes its longer, more elaborate formulations.
Part 284 In Progress
The reflection continues. Part 285 continues with transcending every māra's own domain, and holding birth-and-death and awakening together without contradiction.
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