Ten Minds Raised in Right Mindfulness

This tenfold raising of mind functions as a formal act of preparation rather than mere description — Fazang reads it as the deliberate counterpart to the various preparatory postures (bowing, circumambulating, standing in contemplation) Sudhana performed before each of his prior fifty-two teachers, now intensified into a purely mental, meditative preparation befitting the culminating vision about to unfold. The vajra-treasury bodhimaṇḍa named first recalls the very seat where Śākyamuni himself attained awakening, and its pairing here with "space" and "the ten directions" as objects of mind establishes, before any vision is shown, that what Sudhana is about to witness will operate on the same unbounded scale already established throughout Maitreya's own tower vision — Samantabhadra's arrival is prepared for as at least equal in scope to what has come before.