經律異相 5.6

5.6

What is called the esoteric mystery of the mind? It means being pure in the four practices, not losing spiritual powers, and establishing the boundless activity of great compassion. Through spiritual powers, he manifests all things universally to form the chamber of wisdom of the Path of Truth. Contemplating all phenomena, this is the correct penetration that universally governs all. As for the true Dharma, wisdom-spirit and wisdom-penetration both manifest all forms, explain all colors, explain all the path-dharmas of the Buddhas, and instruct and transform all sentient beings of the ten directions, causing them to enter the Dharma-Vinaya, reach Avaivartika, and turn all dharmas. This is the activity of the esoteric mystery of the bodhisattva's mind. (Drawn from the second fascicle of the *Sūtra on Guhyakapada Vajrapāṇi*.) When a bodhisattva abides in this vajrasamādhi, with a single voice he preaches, and all sentient beings each attain understanding according to their kind. He manifests a single form, and all sentient beings each see various forms. Abiding peacefully in one place without shifting his body, he is able to cause sentient beings to each see him according to their respective direction. He expounds a single dharma, whether dhātu or āyatana, and all sentient beings each hear it according to their innate understanding. (Drawn from fascicle 22 of the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra*.) The Buddha preaches the Dharma with a single voice, and sentient beings each attain understanding according to their kind. Each thinks the World-Honoured One speaks the same language as them; sentient beings, each in accordance with what they understand, universally receive and practice it, obtaining its benefit. Some are terrified, some rejoice, some give rise to revulsion, and some cut off doubts—this is the uncommon Dharma of spiritual power. (Drawn from fascicle 1 of the *Vimalakīrti-sūtra*.) Regarding all marks of phenomena, one acts without attachment, establishes the supreme jewel banner, and emits a single great voice. If those who delight in hearing of giving attain liberation, they then hear the Tathāgata speak of the benefits of giving; it is likewise with the pleasures of morality, wisdom, and so forth. In expounding the Great Vehicle, there are no sentient beings who are not liberated. (Drawn from fascicle 3 of the *Sūtra on the Samādhi of Contemplating the Buddha*.) The Buddha expounds all dharmas with a single word. When beings of the great trichiliocosm raise questions and difficulties at the same time with immeasurable sounds, all differing from one another, in a single thought-moment he answers them with a single voice, causing all of them to open up and understand. (Drawn from fascicle 26 of the *Avataṃsaka-sūtra*; fascicle 7 of the *Śūraṅgama-sūtra* clarifies the esoteric mystery of the body, and the *Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka-sūtra* and *Daśavikalpa-sūtra* explain the esoteric mystery of speech, being largely identical.)