The Awakening of Mahāvairocana 6.16

6.16

「過去諸正覺，及與未來世，
現在仁中尊，具足智方便，
修行無上覺，得無漏悉地，
亦說餘學處，離於方便智。
當知大勤勇，誘進諸聲聞。」

attentively and consider it carefully as I now explain the skill in determining the Vinaya of bodhisattvas. Lord of Mysteries, know that there are two kinds of bodhisattvas. What are [these] two? They are the householder and the renunciant.

“Lord of Mysteries, the householder bodhisattva observes the five bases of the precepts, acts freely in positions of power, conforms to time and place with the path of various expedient means, acts freely to embrace [beings], and seeks [the knowledge of] an omniscient one. That is to say, endowed with expedient means, he displays various arts, such as those of dancers and temple masters, and following these expedient means he embraces beings with the four means of conversion, causing them all to seek after anuttarā samyaksaṃbodhi. He keeps, namely, the precept of not taking life and [the precepts against] taking what is not given, mendacious speech, sexual misconduct, and wrong views. These are called the five bases of the precepts for householders. The bodhisattva, observing the wholesome precepts as they have been taught, should have clear faith [in them] and should be diligent in his training. Following the bases of training of Tathāgatas of former times, he abides in the conditioned precepts, is endowed with wisdom and expedient means, and attains the aggregate of the Tathāgata’s unsurpassed and auspicious unconditioned precepts.

“There are four kinds of fundamental sins that should not be committed even for the sake of saving one’s life. What are [these] four? They are slandering the Dharma, abandoning the bodhi-mind, miserliness [with the Dharma], and causing harm to beings. Why is that? They are by nature defiled and do not represent the keeping of the bodhisattva precepts. Why?

The Perfectly Awakened Ones of the past, those of future ages,

And the honored among humans in the present, endowed with

wisdom and expedient means,

Cultivate unsurpassed awakening and obtain the siddhi of no outflows.

Also taught are other bases of training and knowledge divorced from

expedient means:

You should know, Great Striving Hero, that these are for guiding

śrāvakas.”

Chapter XIX

The Exposition of the Arising

of the Hundred Letters

Thereupon the World-honored One Vairocana surveyed the entire great assembly and expounded the infallible teaching, the sovereign of mantras which accomplishes everything in accordance with desires, the king of mantras, the leader of mantras, the great potent one. Resting in the three samayas, and in order to consummate the three dharmas, with a wondrous voice he addressed Vajrapāṇi of great power, saying, “Striving Hero, with singlemindedness listen attentively to the mantra-leader of mantras,” whereupon he dwelled in the samādhi “Birth of Knowledge” and uttered a mantra which produces various kinds of skillful knowledge and shines everywhere with one hundred light rays: Namaḥ samantabuddhānāṃ, aṃ. [256 = 75]

The Buddha addressed Vajrapāṇi: “This is of all mantras