Light and Fragrance From Every Single Pore
At that time, Sudhana saw that from every single pore of Samantabhadra's own body there poured forth light equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, universally illuminating every world throughout the whole of space and the Dharma-realm, extinguishing every affliction and suffering of sentient beings, and fully able to nurture the roots of goodness of every bodhisattva; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every kind of fragrance, universally scenting every tathāgata of the ten directions together with their every retinue; from every single pore there came forth clouds of flowers equal in number to the motes of dust of every world; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every kind of fragrant tree equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, sending forth every wondrous fragrance, adorning the Dharma-realm; from every single pore there came forth clouds of wondrous jeweled robes equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, adorning the whole of space; from every single pore there came forth every kind of jeweled tree equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, filling space as an adornment, raining every kind of jewel to offer to the buddhas and the great assembly; from every single pore there came forth the bodies of form-realm devas equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, filling the entire Dharma-realm and every realm of sentient beings, praising bodhi; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every Brahmā-king's own body, urging every tathāgata to turn the wondrous Dharma-wheel; and from every single pore there came forth clouds of every desire-realm deva's own body, all of them guarding and upholding every buddha's own Dharma-wheel.
Every Realm of Heaven Pouring From a Single Pore
爾時，善財見普賢菩薩一一毛孔，放一切世界微塵等光明，普照一切虛空、法界等世界，除滅一切眾生苦患，悉能長養菩薩善根；一一毛孔，出種種香雲，普熏十方一切如來及諸眷屬；一一毛孔，出一切世界微塵等華雲；一一毛孔，出一切世界微塵等諸香樹雲，出眾妙香，莊嚴法界；一一毛孔，出一切世界微塵等妙寶衣雲，莊嚴虛空；一一毛孔，出一切世界微塵等種種寶樹，充滿虛空，以為莊嚴，雨種種寶，供佛大眾；一一毛孔，出一切世界微塵等色界天身，充滿一切法界，一切眾生界，讚歎菩提；一一毛孔，出一切梵王身雲，勸請如來，轉妙法輪；一一毛孔，出一切欲天身雲，皆悉護持諸佛法輪；
At that time, Sudhana saw that from every single pore of Samantabhadra's own body there poured forth light equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, universally illuminating every world throughout the whole of space and the Dharma-realm, extinguishing every affliction and suffering of sentient beings, and fully able to nurture the roots of goodness of every bodhisattva; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every kind of fragrance, universally scenting every tathāgata of the ten directions together with their every retinue; from every single pore there came forth clouds of flowers equal in number to the motes of dust of every world; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every kind of fragrant tree equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, sending forth every wondrous fragrance, adorning the Dharma-realm; from every single pore there came forth clouds of wondrous jeweled robes equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, adorning the whole of space; from every single pore there came forth every kind of jeweled tree equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, filling space as an adornment, raining every kind of jewel to offer to the buddhas and the great assembly; from every single pore there came forth the bodies of form-realm devas equal in number to the motes of dust of every world, filling the entire Dharma-realm and every realm of sentient beings, praising bodhi; from every single pore there came forth clouds of every Brahmā-king's own body, urging every tathāgata to turn the wondrous Dharma-wheel; and from every single pore there came forth clouds of every desire-realm deva's own body, all of them guarding and upholding every buddha's own Dharma-wheel.
This vision deliberately exceeds Maitreya's own pore-emanation from many parts earlier — where Maitreya's pores emitted clouds of bodies belonging to various classes of beings, Samantabhadra's pores emit not only bodies but the full material and cosmological apparatus of Dharma-transmission itself: light that actively heals suffering, fragrance and flowers as offering, jeweled robes and trees, and finally the very devas (Brahmā and the desire-realm gods) whose traditional role is to request and protect the Buddha's own turning of the Dharma-wheel. Fazang reads the specific inclusion of Brahmā "urging every tathāgata to turn the wondrous Dharma-wheel" as significant continuity with the historical account of Śākyamuni's own awakening, where Brahmā's request was traditionally what moved the newly-awakened Buddha to teach at all — here that entire historical moment is folded into a single pore among Samantabhadra's countless others.
Part 420 Complete
The first stretch of Samantabhadra's pore-emanations is now given in full. Part 421 continues with what pours forth in every single thought-moment from those same pores — buddhas of the three times, pure and impure lands, and bodhisattvas at every stage from first bodhicitta to Samantabhadra's own practice.
Continue to Part 421 →