Moreover, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Worthy entered passages into inconceivable liberation full of seas of expedients, thus entering the Thus Come One’s sea of merit.
These include a passage into liberation called adorning and purifying all Buddhalands and taming sentient beings, enabling them to ultimately gain transcendence; and a passage into liberation called universally visiting all Thus Come Ones and cultivating states of perfect merit.
Another passage into liberation is called establishing all Bodhisattva grounds and an ocean of great vows. Another passage into liberation is called everywhere manifesting measureless bodies as numerous as the dust motes in the Dharma Realm.
Another passage into liberation is called proclaiming the inconceivable numbers of distinct names throughout all lands. Another passage into liberation is called displaying in every mote of dust the states of the spiritual powers of boundless Bodhisattvas.
Another passage into liberation is called, within a single thought, displaying the eons of formation, destruction, and so on in the three periods of time. Another passage into liberation is called manifesting the sea of all Bodhisattvas’ faculties, each of which enters its own state.
Another passage into liberation is called using the strength of spiritual powers to manifest various bodies that pervade boundless dharma realms.
Another passage into liberation is called revealing the sequential doors of dharmas cultivated by all Bodhisattvas, by which they enter the vast, great expedients of All Wisdom.
At that time, the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Worthy, by his own merit and further by receiving the Thus Come One’s awesome spiritual power, universally contemplated the sea of the assembled multitudes and spoke the following verses.
The vast, great lands adorned by the Buddha
Are equal in number to all the fine motes of dust.
They are filled with pure disciples of the Buddha.
He rains down inconceivable Dharma of utmost wonder.
Just as the Buddha is seen seated in this assembly,
It is the same in every particle of dust.
The Buddha’s body neither goes nor comes,
Yet it appears with clarity in every land.
He elucidates the practices that Bodhisattvas cultivate,
Their measureless grounds and all expedients,
And expounds the inconceivable true principle,
Enabling the Buddha’s disciples to enter the Dharma Realm.
He creates transformation Buddhas as numerous as dustmotes,
Universally responding to the wishes of all beings.
He enters the profound Dharma Realm’s expedient doors—
They are vast and boundless, yet he proclaims them all.
The Thus Come One’s names are equal to the world,
Completely filling the lands of the ten directions.
None of the expedients are used in vain;
They tame sentient beings, freeing them from defilement.
In every fine mote of dust, the Buddha
Displays boundless, great spiritual powers.
Seated in every bodhimanda, he proclaims
The Buddha’s past practices for bodhi.
Throughout vast eons in the three periods of time,
The Buddha manifests in thought after thought.
His inconceivable wisdom fully perceives
All the events of formation and decay therein.
The assembly of the Buddha’s disciples is limitlessly vast.
They all wish to fathom the realm of the Buddhas.
The Buddhas’ dharma doors are without bounds.
It is difficult indeed to completely understand them all.
Free from differentiation, the Buddha resembles space.
The impartial true Dharma Realm relies upon nothing.
He manifests as going to every location without exception
To sit in the bodhimanda and realize right enlightenment.
The Buddha teaches extensively with a wondrous voice
Making all the grounds clearly understood.
Appearing before each and every sentient being,
He exhaustively gives them the Thus Come One’s impartial Dharma.
Moreover, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Pure Virtue’s Wondrous Light gained a passage into liberation of traveling to all the magnificent bodhimandas of the Bodhisattva assemblies in the ten directions. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Supremely Luminous Lantern of Universal Virtue gained a passage into liberation of displaying, in a single thought, infinite passages for realizing proper enlightenment; and teaching, transforming, and bringing to maturity inconceivable realms of sentient beings. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Lion Banner of Universal Light gained a passage into liberation of cultivating the Bodhisattva’s blessings and virtue in order to adorn and create all Buddhalands.
Bodhisattva Mahasattva Splendid Light of Universal Jeweled Flames gained a passage into liberation of contemplating the state of the Buddha’s spiritual powers without being confused. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Voice with Merit and Virtue Like a Banner or Ocean gained a passage into liberation of displaying the adornments of all Buddhalands in the bodhimanda of a single assembly. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Wisdom-Light Illuminating the Thus Come One’s Realm gained a passage into liberation of following the Thus Come One to contemplate the profound, vast, great treasury of the Dharma Realm.
Bodhisattva Mahasattva Delightful Sounds that Bring Universal Enlightenment gained a passage into liberation of drawing near to and serving all Buddhas and presenting a plethora of offerings. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Purity and Majestic Light of Infinite Blessings gained a passage into liberation of producing all spiritual transformations to vastly bestow aid. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Jeweled Cowl and Flower Banner gained a passage into liberation of universally entering all worldly practices and giving rise to the Bodhisattva’s boundless methods of practice. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Supreme Light from Universal Characteristics gained a passage into liberation of displaying all Buddhas’ states within a Dharma Realm that is devoid of characteristics.
At that time, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Pure Virtue’s Wondrous Light received the Buddha’s awesome spiritual power, universally contemplated the ocean of all the Bodhisattvas’ passages into liberation, and spoke the following verses.
Every land in the ten directions
Is adorned and purified in an instant.
With a wondrous voice he turns the Dharma wheel.
Throughout all worlds, there is none equal to the Buddha.
Boundless is the realm of the Thus Come One.
In a single thought he completely fills the Dharma Realm.
In every dust mote a bodhimanda is established,
Where all can realize bodhi and develop spiritual transformations.
The World Honored One cultivated all practices
For measureless hundreds of thousands of eons.
He adorns each and every Buddhaland,
Manifesting freely like space.
The Buddha’s spiritual powers are limitless.
They completely fill boundless eons.
One could spend innumerable eons
Observing them continually without tiring.
Behold the state of the Buddha’s spiritual powers:
They adorn and purify all lands in the ten directions.
In each and every land, they manifest —
Limitless in variety, different in every thought.
For measureless hundreds of thousands of eons, contemplate the Buddha
With totally undivided attention.
The Thus Come One has unobstructed expedient doors.
This light universally shines upon inconceivable lands.
In former eons when Thus Come One was in the world,
He attended upon Buddhas as boundless as an ocean.
Therefore all beings, like madly rushing streams,
Come to make offerings to the One Honored by the World.
The Thus Come One appears pervasively in the ten directions,
In measureless lands within each and every mote of dust.
All the states therein are measureless,
Dwelling throughout boundless and infinite eons.
In eons gone by, when the Buddha was a sentient being,
He cultivated an ocean of boundless great compassion.
Entering samsara along with sentient beings,
He universally transforms the multitudes, making them pure.
In the treasury of the Dharma Realm of True Suchness, the Buddha dwells—
Devoid of forms and characteristics, free from all defilement.
When sentient beings behold his various bodies,
Their woes and difficulties vanish one and all.
Moreover, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Ocean Moonlight’s Great Radiance gained a passage into liberation of using expedient means in bringing into being all Bodhisattva grounds and paramitas , teaching and transforming sentient beings, and adorning and purifying all Buddhalands.
Bodhisattva Mahasattva Immaculate Treasury of Thunderclouds and Shining Seas gained a passage into liberation of universally entering various, distinct locations in all dharma realms in thought after thought. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Jeweled Cowl Born of Wisdom gained a passage into liberation of displaying pure, great meritorious virtues before all sentient beings throughout inconceivable eons. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Pure Light of Meritorious Virtues and Majestic Freedom gained a passage into liberation of universally viewing the various adornments of all Bodhisattvas in the ten directions upon their arrival at the bodhimanda . Bodhisattva Mahasattva Lotus Headdress of Proficient Courage gained a passage into liberation of universally revealing all Buddhadharmas according to the ocean of sentient beings’ faculties and understanding.
Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universal Wisdom Resembling Banners of Clouds and Sun gained a passage into liberation of perfecting the Thus Come One’s wisdom and eternally dwelling throughout immeasurable eons. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Adamantine Navel of Great Vigor gained a passage into liberation of universally entering the power derived from the imprint of boundless Dharma seals. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Banner of Fragrant Blazing Light gained a passage into liberation of displaying all present Buddhas’ initial cultivation of Bodhisattva conduct up to their perfection of accumulated wisdom. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Resplendent Virtue and Beautiful Sound gained a passage into liberation of peacefully dwelling in the ocean of all the great vows of Vairochana. Bodhisattva Mahasattva Light of Great Blessings Born of Wisdom gained a passage into liberation of displaying the profound state of the Thus Come One’s omnipresence in the Dharma realm.
At that time, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Ocean Moonlight’s Great Radiance received the Buddha’s awesome spiritual power, universally contemplated the adorned, oceanic multitudes of all the Bodhisattvas, and spoke the following verses.
All the paramitas and all the grounds,
Vast and inconceivable, have completely been perfected.
Measureless sentient beings have all been tamed.
All Buddhalands have been adorned and purified.
The Buddha’s teaching and transforming of the realms of beings
Fills and pervades the lands of the ten directions.
In a single thought he turns the Dharma wheel,
Universally responding to all sentient beings, missing none.
The Buddha, for immeasurable vast eons,
Universally appeared before all sentient beings,
Just as in the past he cultivated on a vast scale,
Showing them the pure aspects of this practice.
I perceive all in the ten directions without exception;
I also see the Buddhas displaying spiritual powers.
Seated in the bodhimanda, they all perfect right enlightenment.
The multitudes gather ‘round to hear the Dharma.
The Buddha’s Dharma body is vast, great, and brilliant.
He can expediently appear in the world.
Universally complying with what sentient beings like,
He rains down Dharma matching their faculties.
The markless body of impartial True Suchness,
The immaculate, bright, pure Dharma body,
Limitless bodies of wisdom and still tranquility
Universally respond in the ten directions and proclaim Dharma.
The powers of the Dharma King are entirely pure.
His wisdom is boundless like the void.
He reveals all, omitting and hiding nothing,
Universally enabling sentient beings to awaken and enter.
Just as the Buddha once cultivated and trained himself
To the point that he realized All Wisdom,
He now radiates light pervading the Dharma Realm,
Revealing everything therein with total clarity.
Following his past vows, the Buddha displays spiritual powers.
Nothing in the ten directions escapes his illumination.
The practices the Buddha cultivated in the past
Are fully proclaimed within his brilliant aura.
The states of being in the ten directions are infinite.
Peerless and unbounded, they are each distinct.
The Buddha has unhindered power and radiates brilliance,
Clearly revealing each and every land.
At that time, out of the Thus Come One’s lion throne, multitudes of gems, wondrous flowers, wheels, terraces, the base and the steps to the throne, and the doors and windows—out of each and every adorned object such as these—came Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas as numerous as the fine motes of dust in Buddhalands.
Their names were: Bodhisattva Mahasattva King of Oceanic Wisdom and Sovereign Spiritual Powers, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Universally Resounding Thunderclap, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Radiant Topknot of All Jewels, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Sun of Great Knowledge and Courageous Wisdom, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Inconceivable Meritorious Virtues and Precious Seal of Wisdom, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Hundred Eyes and Lotus Flower Topknot, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Perfect Radiance of Golden Flames, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Sound Pervading the Dharma Realm, Bodhisattva Mahasattva Cloud Sound and Pure Moon, and Bodhisattva Mahasattva Bright Banner of Wholesome Courage. Those were some of the leaders.
Multitudes of such Bodhisattvas as numerous as the motes of dust in Buddhalands simultaneously appeared. All of theseBodhisattvascreated clouds of assorted offerings.
That is to say, there were clouds of flowers of all mani jewels; clouds of lovely fragrance from all lotuses; clouds of the full brilliance of all jewels; clouds of boundless states of fragrant flames; clouds of sun treasury mani wheel light; clouds of all delightful sounds of music; clouds of boundless forms and bright flames from all jeweled lamps; clouds of branches, flowers, and fruits from all jeweled trees; clouds of infinite, precious, pure light of magnificent mani; and clouds of all kinds of ornaments of magnificent mani. Such clouds of offerings were as numerous as motes of dust in Buddha worlds. Each of those Bodhisattvas created such clouds of offerings, raining them continuously and without end over the oceanic multitudes in the bodhimanda.
Having manifested these clouds, they circumambulated the World Honored One to the right countless hundreds of thousands of times. Then, in their own direction not far from the Buddha, they each created a lion throne of a countless variety of jeweled lotuses and seated themselves in full lotus upon it.
All these Bodhisattvas had cultivated purity as vast as the ocean. They had attained the dharma of a universal passage to illuminating wisdom. Having followed the nonobstruction practiced by all Buddhas, they were able to enter the Dharma ocean of all types of eloquence. They had attained the dharma door of inconceivable liberation and dwelt on the ground of the Thus Come One’s universal door. Having attained all dharani doors, they were able to take in all Dharma seas. They skillfully dwelt on the ground of the impartial wisdom of the three periods of time. They had attained deep faith and immense happiness. Having accumulated boundless blessings, they were wholesome and pure to the utmost. Throughout space and the Dharma Realm, nothing escaped their contemplation. Whenever a Buddha appeared in any land in the worlds of the ten directions, they would all diligently make offerings.
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