妙法蓮華經 4.6

4.6

“There will be immeasurable incalculable thousands of myriads of koṭis of nayutas of bodhisattvas who have attained great transcendent powers and the fourfold unobstructed wisdom. They will be able skillfully to lead and inspire sentient beings. The number of śrāvakas there will be impossible to calculate. They will all perfect the six transcendent powers, the three sciences, and the eight liberations.

“Such will be the immeasurable merits of this buddha’s land, being perfect in adornment. The kalpa will be called Ratnāvabhāsa and his land will be called Suviśuddha. This buddha’s lifespan will last for immeasurable incalculable kalpas, and the Dharma will abide for a very long time. After the parinirvāṇa of that buddha, stupas of the seven treasures will be erected everywhere throughout the land.”

Then the Bhagavat, wanting to elaborate on the meaning of this further, spoke these verses:

O monks! Listen carefully!

The path that the heir of the buddhas

Has practiced by learning skillful means

Cannot be conceived.

Because the bodhisattvas know

That sentient beings long for inferior teachings

And are afraid of great knowledge,

They make themselves either śrāvakas

Or pratyekabuddhas.

They inspire those sentient beings

Using innumerable skillful means, saying:

We are śrāvakas and still very far away

From attaining the buddha path.

They save immeasurable sentient beings,

All of whom they cause to attain perfection;

And they even cause those who are lazy,

Or who have lowly intentions,

Gradually to become buddhas.

These beings secretly carry out the bodhisattva practice

While outwardly calling themselves śrāvakas.

Having little desire,

Their thoughts fixed on birth and death,

They in fact purify the buddha lands.

These bodhisattvas show sentient beings

That they have the three poisons

And further they reveal the mark of false views.

In this way my disciples save

Sentient beings through skillful means.

If I fully disclosed

That they had taken on various forms,

The sentient beings hearing this

Would immediately become doubtful.

This Pūrṇa has now practiced the path

Under thousands of koṭis of buddhas in the past,

And he has propagated and protected

The teaching of these buddhas.

Seeking the highest wisdom

Under all these buddhas,

He showed that he was the foremost

Among the disciples,

And that he was knowledgeable and wise.

Fearless in his teaching,

He was able to gladden the people.

He never tired in performing

The actions of a buddha.

He has already attained the great transcendent powers

And is endowed with the fourfold unobstructed wisdom.