大方廣佛華嚴經疏 47.8

47.8

第二偈頌。百二十偈，大分為二：前六明普賢德廣說不可盡、餘偈明佛德深廣普賢窮究。前中分二：前四偈半明能數多、後一偈半顯所數廣。今初，積數自有十重以顯無盡，是知上至不可說轉尚約順機，據佛所知實無盡故。言十重者，一初句，積不可說至不可說，然此應積最後不可說不可說轉，而但積不可說者，有二義故：一取言易故，下偈多用故；二表言所不及之數故。二次三句，將上所積充滿一切不可說中，於中初句標、後二句釋。謂何者是一切不可說？釋云：不可說劫中說不盡者。三半偈，將上諸不可說，一一是一剎皆碎為塵。四半偈，即前一一塵有不可說剎。五半偈，將前諸塵中剎一念遍碎為塵。六半偈，念念碎塵復盡多劫。七有一句，明前所碎塵復有多剎。八一句，即此多剎復碎為塵。九半偈，以多算數經於多劫數上諸塵，云如是數。十以上諸塵數劫，一塵有十萬箇不可說劫，如是重重無盡無盡。第二顯所數廣中，略舉三重：一將上諸劫讚一普賢之德不盡、二況一塵中有多普賢、三況遍法界塵皆有多矣。是知德無盡故，若不以稱性之心思之，心惑狂亂。

Second, the verses. The one hundred and twenty verses are broadly divided into two: the first six clarify that Samantabhadra's virtues are vast and cannot be exhaustively spoken; the remaining verses clarify that the Buddha's virtues are profound and vast, and that Samantabhadra exhausts their fathomability. The former is divided into two: the first four and a half verses clarify the vastness of the counting [numbers]; the latter one and a half verses reveal the vastness of what is counted. First, the accumulation of numbers itself has ten levels to reveal inexhaustibility; from this we know that reaching up to the "turn of the ineffable" is still in accord with capacities, for according to what the Buddha knows, it is truly inexhaustible. As for the ten levels: 1. The first line accumulates the ineffable to the ineffable. However, this should accumulate the ultimate "turn of the ineffable of the ineffable," yet only accumulates the ineffable due to two reasons: first, to take what is easy to state, as the verses below frequently use it; second, to express the numbers beyond words. 2. The next three lines take the above accumulations and fill all ineffables, wherein the first line presents the topic and the latter two lines explain it. Namely, what are "all ineffables"? The explanation states: those that cannot be exhaustively spoken within ineffable kalpas. 3. Half a verse takes each of the above ineffables as a kṣetra and pulverizes them all into dust motes. 4. Half a verse shows that within each of the aforementioned dust motes there are ineffable kṣetras. 5. Half a verse takes the kṣetras within the aforementioned dust motes and in a single thought-moment pulverizes them all into dust motes. 6. Half a verse shows that pulverizing dust motes thought-moment after thought-moment further exhausts many kalpas. 7. One line clarifies that the previously pulverized dust motes again contain many kṣetras. 8. One line shows that these many kṣetras are again pulverized into dust motes. 9. Half a verse takes many calculations traversing many kalpas to count all the above dust motes, saying "such numbers." 10. Taking the kalpas equal to the above dust motes, one dust mote has one hundred thousand ineffable kalpas, thus repeating layer upon layer without end. In the second part, revealing the vastness of what is counted, three levels are briefly cited: 1. Taking the above kalpas to praise the virtue of a single Samantabhadra without exhausting it; 2. How much more so when within a single dust mote there are many Samantabhadras; 3. How much more so when there are many throughout all the dust motes of the entire dharmadhātu! From this we know virtues are inexhaustible; if one does not contemplate them with a mind that accords with nature, the mind will become deluded and crazed.