Then the enlightening being Diamond Banner, spiritually empowered by Buddha, looked over the ten directions and said in verse, The peerless honored ones of the ten directions have never had a thought of pride. Whatever virtuous works they perform, they are still respectful and reverent. all the virtues they cultivate are not for themselves or others always with a mind of supreme resolve they dedicate them to the benefit of all the living They have never developed pride or conceit, yet they are not self-demeaning. The actions of the enlightened ones they inquire into and earnestly practice. The various roots of goodness they cultivate are all for the benefit of conscious creatures. They abide in profound will and broad understanding dedicated to the most honorable, virtuous human state.

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The various skills and marvels there are in the world, beyond measure, crude and fine, broad and deep, they practice and master all. All the various bodies in the world they enter by equality of bodies. Cultivating this, they attain understanding and accomplish non-regression in the door of wisdom. The lands and the worlds, innumerable kinds, minute, immense, with different orientations, enlightening beings can, via the door of knowledge, see all in a single pore. Sentient beings' mental activities, without measure, they can cause to equally enter one mind. Through the door of knowledge they understand all and do not regress in their practice. Sentient beings, faculties, and inclinations, superior, middling, and inferior, are each unalike.

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All are profoundly hard to know, but enlightening beings can comprehend them in accord with their fundamental nature. Sentient beings' various actions, superior, middling, and inferior, are each different. Enlightening beings, deeply entering enlightened power, clearly see all through the door of knowledge. inconceivably innumerable eons they can cause to equally enter one instant, thus having seen throughout the ten directions they cultivate all pure actions. Past, future, and present, they know their characteristics, each different, yet without deviating from the principle of equality, this is the great mind's practice of clear comprehension." The actions of the sentient beings of the world are not the same. Sometimes apparent, sometimes hidden, there are innumerable kinds.

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Enlightening beings know all their different forms and know too their forms are formless. The autonomous spiritual power manifested by all Buddhas in the worlds in the ten directions, vast, extensive, inconceivable, enlightening beings are able to distinctly know. The naturally enlightened human lions in the Tushita heavens of all worlds, their virtues great, pure, beyond compare, all their features the enlightening can see. Sometimes they manifest spiritual descent into the mother's womb or the innumerable autonomous miraculous displays, attaining Buddhahood, teaching, showing extinction throughout the world unceasingly. When the human lions are first born, all those of superior knowledge serve them.

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The gods, such as Indra and Brahma, all respectfully attend to them. In the infinite boundless realms throughout the ten directions, without beginning or end, far or near, they manifest the powers of the enlightened. After the honored human leader's manifest birth, they walk seven steps in each direction, wishing to enlighten the living by the wondrous truth. The Buddhas, therefore, observe all. They see sentient beings sunk in the sea of cravings, veiled by blindness and folly. The free humans show a smile and reflect that they should save beings from suffering. The great lions roar amidst a wondrous voice. I am the most honored in the world. I should light the lamp of clear, pure knowledge and destroy the darkness of ignorance and folly in birth and death.

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When the human lion monarchs appear in the world, they radiate infinite great beams of light, causing an end to the courses of misery and extinguishing the sufferings of the world. Sometimes they manifest life in a royal palace. Sometimes they manifest leaving home and cultivating enlightenment. Because they want to benefit sentient beings, they demonstrate such powers of freedom. When the Buddhas first sit on the enlightenment site, the whole earth trembles. All worlds in the ten directions are bathed in light, and beings in all states are relieved of pain. Shaking the palaces of all demons, awakening the minds of all sentient beings, those who received the teaching and practiced it in the past, they cause to know the true meaning. All the lands in the ten directions completely enter a pore.

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The lands in all pores are boundless. Therein they manifest spiritual powers. Enlightening beings understand the innumerable methods expounded by all the Buddhas. Even those the Buddhas have not explained, they understand and diligently practice. All the demon armies create conflicts filling all worlds of the universe. The infinite varied ills they create, unhindered knowledge can all destroy. The enlightened may be in Buddha fields or may appear to be in celestial palaces. Sometimes they manifest their bodies in Brahma's palace, enlightening beings see all without obstruction. Buddha manifests infinite various bodies, turning the wheel of the pure teaching. No bounds to this can ever be found, even throughout all times.

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Jeweled thrones, high and wide, without compare, fill the infinite worlds of the ten directions. Adorned with various wondrous forms, Buddhists sit on them, inconceivable, surrounded by crowds of enlightening beings filling the whole of the cosmos, revealing infinite practices for enlightenment, the paths followed by all the Buddhas. The appropriate acts of the Buddhas are infinite, boundless as the cosmos. The wise are able, by one technique, to know them all entirely. The Buddha's spiritual powers manifest all kinds of bodies. They may show infinite lives in all states of being, or may appear surrounded by concubines, or else they may, in countless worlds, manifest leaving home and attaining Buddhahood. add on the final demise distribution of relics and setting up of shrines.

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By these boundless, varied actions, the guides explain the abode of Buddhahood, the great virtues of the world-honored, enlightening beings vow to cultivate and achieve. When they dedicate those roots of goodness, they abide in such expedient means, thus cultivating enlightening practice, their minds never wearied or lazy. The great spiritual powers of the Buddhas, as well as their boundless supreme virtues, and also wise acts in the mundane world, all they know exhaustively. Thus all lordly humans, in whatever realms they may be, understand all at once, yet don't give up enlightenment practice. The subtle refined practices of the Buddhas and the various laws of all fields they are able to know as they encounter them, ultimately dedicating them to transcendence.

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Finite or infinite, all ages, enlightening beings know are the same as one instant. Herein they enter enlightenment practice, always cultivating it diligently, never regressing. All the lands in the ten directions, some polluted, some pure, and all the Buddhas there, enlightening beings can distinguish and know. In every moment they clearly see inconceivably many eons. Thus throughout all times they cultivate enlightening practice. Into all minds they penetrate, and penetrate all things equally too. The same for all Buddhafields throughout space, comprehending all their excellent practices. They produce all kinds of knowledge of sentient beings and phenomena, as well as spiritual powers of enlightening beings, all of this inexhaustible.

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Knowledge of all minute details, each distinct, enlightening beings thoroughly absorb similar and different aspects they all know well, thus cultivating far-reaching practice. Innumerable are the sentient beings in each of the innumerable Buddha lands and the ten directions. Their conditions and types are variously different. By the power of their practice, enlightening beings can know them all. All the guides there are in past, present, and future worlds, if one has knowledge and dedication like them, one's practice is equal to those Buddhas. If people can practice this dedication, this is learning the path of the Buddhas. They'll attain the virtues of all Buddhas and the knowledge and wisdom of Buddhas.

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Invaluable to all worldlings, accomplishing all that is to be learned, they'll always be able to recollect all Buddhas and see all the lamps of the world. Enlightening beings' excellent practices are immeasurable, and so are their virtuous qualities. Once living by the unexcelled practice of the enlightened, they know all the spiritual powers of the Buddhas. What is great enlightening beings' boundless dedication equal to the cosmos? Here they wrap their heads with the turban of non-defilement, dwell in the position of a teacher of truth, and extensively carry out the giving of teaching with great kindness and compassion, establishing sentient beings in the aspiration for enlightenment." Always practicing charity by the determination for enlightenment, they nurture roots of goodness.

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Being directors for sentient beings, they point out to them the path of universal knowledge. Being sons of truth for sentient beings, the light of their roots of goodness illumines all. Their minds are impartial toward all sentient beings. They practice good works without rest. Their hearts are pure, free from stain, and their knowledge and wisdom are free. They never give up good works, and acting as wise caravan leaders for sentient beings, they bring them all into the right path of peace. Being leaders and guides for sentient beings, they have them cultivate the practices of all roots of goodness. Being incorruptible, steadfast, good friends to sentient beings, they cause their roots of goodness to develop and mature.

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These great enlightening beings make giving of teaching principle. Developing all pure good qualities, they embody the mind directed toward universal knowledge, their supreme willpower ultimately enduring, developing, and growing. They are endowed with great powers and virtues. They trust good spiritual friends. Their minds have no deceitfulness. They contemplate and examine the boundless realms of the way into universal knowledge. These roots of goodness they dedicate in this way. They vow to become able to cultivate, perfect, and increase all perspectives of universal non-obstruction. They vow to become able to absorb, retain, and expound whenever they hear of the true teaching of the Buddhas, even a single line or verse.

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They vow to become able to recollect all the Buddhas, past, future, and present, of all worlds, innumerable, boundless, equal to the cosmos, and having remembered them, to cultivate enlightening practices. They also vow to cultivate enlightening practice for one being in one world forever by this root of goodness of remembrance of Buddhas, and as in one world so in all worlds throughout the space of the cosmos, and as for one being so for all sentient beings, in each case being eternally adorned with great vows for their sake, eradicating any thought of separation from the Buddhas and spiritual friends, always seeing the Buddhas before them, able to draw near to every Buddha that appears in the world. The pure religious practices extolled and expounded by all Buddhas and enlightening beings, they vow to cultivate and completely fulfill.

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religious practice of unbroken morality, flawless morality, unalloyed morality, spotless morality, impeccable morality, religious practice that cannot be shrouded, religious practice lauded by Buddhas, religious practice of non-reliance, religious practice of non-acquisitiveness, religious practice of increasing the purity of the enlightening being, religious practice as carried out by the Buddhas of all times, religious practice of non-obstruction, religious practice of non-attachment, religious practice of non-contention, religious practice without extinction, religious practice of stabilization of goodwill, religious practice of incomparable compassion, religious practice of immutable joy, religious practice of undisturbed equanimity, religious practice of freedom from anger.

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If great enlightening beings are able to cultivate such pure religious practices for their own sake, then they will be able to do so for the sake of all sentient beings, enabling all sentient beings to attain stability, attaining all sentient beings to attain open understanding, enabling all sentient beings to attain completion, enabling all sentient beings to attain purity, enabling all sentient beings to attain non-defilement, enabling all sentient beings to attain illumination, enabling all sentient beings to be unstained by sense objects, enabling all sentient beings to be free from blinding hindrances, enabling all sentient beings to be freed from inflaming afflictions, enabling all sentient beings to be freed from all bonds, enabling all sentient beings to forever depart from all evils, enabling all sentient beings to be harmless and ultimately pure.

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Why? If great enlightening beings cannot themselves be pure in religious practice, they cannot cause others to attain purity. If they themselves regress from religious practice, they cannot cause others not to regress. If they themselves are corrupt in religious practice, they cannot cause others to be free from corruption. If they themselves stray from religious practice, they cannot cause others not to stray. If they themselves are lazy in religious practice, they cannot cause others not to slack off. If they themselves have no faith in religious practice, they cannot cause others to have faith. If they themselves do not live steadily by religious practice, they cannot cause others to live steadily.

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If they themselves have no realization of religious practice, they cannot cause others' minds to attain realization. If they themselves give up religious practices, they cannot cause others to persevere. If they themselves waver in religious practice, they cannot cause others not to waver. Great enlightening beings act without delusion and teach doctrine that is free from delusion. What they say is truthful, and they practice what they preach. They purify their deeds, words, and thoughts, eliminating all dross and defilements. They abide in unobstructed action and annihilate all hindrances. Great enlightening beings themselves attain pure minds and explain to others ways to purify the mind.

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They themselves cultivate harmony and tolerance, taming their minds with roots of goodness and cause others to be harmonious and tolerant, taming their minds with roots of goodness. They themselves get rid of doubt and regret and also cause others to be forever rid of doubt and regret. They themselves attain pure faith and also cause others to attain indestructible pure faith. They themselves abide by the truth and also cause others to live by the truth. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness arising from giving of teaching in this way. May I attain the infinite means of teaching of all Buddhas and analyze and explain them for all sentient beings, causing them all to rejoice and be satisfied in mind, shattering all false philosophies.

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May I be able to expound the ocean of teachings of the Buddhas of past, present, and future for all sentient beings in terms of the upshot of each teaching, the meanings and principles of each teaching, the interpretation of each teaching, the revelation of each teaching, the ways of access to each teaching, the awakening to each teaching, the contemplation and investigation of each teaching, and the field and position of each teaching attain infinite treasuries of truths, acquiring fearlessness, endowed with all powers of analysis and elucidation, extensively analyzing and explaining for sentient beings throughout the future inexhaustibly. Because they want to enable all sentient beings to establish transcendent will and develop unhindered impeccable discernment.

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Because they want to cause all sentient beings to be joyful. Because they want to enable all sentient beings to develop the light of all pure principles, unceasingly expounding them in expressions adapted to the type of audience. Because they want to cause all sentient beings to be profoundly faithful and joyful, they abide in universal knowledge, discern and comprehend all things, and cause them to be without confusion, thinking in these terms. I should earnestly cultivate practice in all worlds for the sake of sentient beings, attain an infinite free body pervading the cosmos, attain an infinite great mind pervading the cosmos, become endowed with infinite pure speech equal to the realms of the cosmos,

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appear in sites of enlightenment of infinite congregations throughout the extent of the cosmos, cultivate enlightening practices as infinite as the cosmos, attain stations of enlightening beings as infinite as the cosmos, realize equanimity of enlightening beings as infinite as the cosmos, learn principles of enlightening beings as infinite as the cosmos, live by practices of enlightening beings as infinite as the cosmos, and enter into dedications of enlightening beings as infinite as the cosmos. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness to cause all sentient beings to be able to attain universal knowledge. Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness to their aspiration to see Buddha's infinite as the cosmos, to tame sentient beings infinite as the cosmos, to maintain Buddha lands infinite as the cosmos,

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to realize enlightening knowledge infinite as the cosmos, to attain fearlessness infinite as the cosmos, to attain enlightening beings inconceivable abodes infinite as the cosmos, to be endowed with virtues infinite as the cosmos, and to fulfill roots of goodness beneficial to sentient beings as infinite as the cosmos, They also pray that by these roots of goodness they will be enabled to attain impartiality of virtue, impartiality of knowledge, impartiality of power, impartiality of fearlessness, impartiality of purity, impartiality of freedom, impartiality of true awakening, impartiality of teaching, impartiality of doctrine, impartiality of certitude, and impartiality of all spiritual powers, fully developing all these qualities and also vowing that all sentient beings should attain them just as they have.

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Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness in this way, that is, as the cosmos is infinite, so is the dedication of roots of goodness. The wisdom attained is ultimately infinite. As the cosmos is boundless, so is the dedication of roots of goodness, seeing all Buddhas without any bounds. As the cosmos is unlimited, so is the dedication of roots of goodness, going to Buddha fields without limit. As the cosmos has no boundaries, so also is the dedication of roots of goodness, cultivating enlightening practices in all worlds without boundaries. As the cosmos has no end, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness, abiding in universal knowledge forever without end.

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As the cosmos is of one nature, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness of the same nature of knowledge as all beings. As the cosmos is inherently pure, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness, causing all sentient beings to ultimately be pure. As the cosmos is adaptive, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness, causing all sentient beings to accord with the practical vows of universal good. As the cosmos is adorned, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness, causing all sentient beings to be adorned with the practices of universal good. As the cosmos cannot be lost or destroyed, so too is the dedication of roots of goodness, causing all sentient beings never to lose or destroy pure practices.

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Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness in this way. By these roots of goodness, may we serve all Buddhas and enlightening beings and gladden them all. By these roots of goodness, may we quickly attain entry into the essence of universal knowledge. By these roots of goodness, may we cultivate omniscience in all places. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always go see all the Buddhas. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and be able to do Buddha work. By these roots of goodness, may we enable all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and never be lazy about Buddha work. By these roots of goodness, may we enable all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and be joyful and pure in mind and never regress.

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By these roots of goodness, may we enable all sentient beings to always get to see the Buddhas and attain good understanding. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and not give rise to clinging attachments. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and comprehend without obstruction. By these roots of goodness, may we enable sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and accomplish the practices of universal good. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas appearing before them, never leaving them for a moment. By these roots of goodness, may we cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas and produce the infinite powers of enlightening beings.

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By these roots of goodness, may we enable all sentient beings always to see the Buddhas and never forget their teachings. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness in these ways. They dedicate them in conformity with the non-originated nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the fundamental nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the inherent essential nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the non-reliant nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the unforgetting nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the empty nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the placeless nature of the cosmos.

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They dedicate them in conformity with the tranquil nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the immutable nature of the cosmos. They dedicate them in conformity with the undifferentiated nature of the cosmos. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the revelations and enlightenment of the giving of teaching as well as the roots of goodness arising therefrom in this way. May all sentient beings become enlightening teachers, always in the care of the Buddhas. May all sentient beings become unsurpassed teachers, skillfully establishing all sentient beings in universal knowledge. May all sentient beings become indefatigable teachers, never stymied by challenging questions. May all sentient beings be unobstructed teachers, attaining the unobstructed light of all truths.

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May all sentient beings be teachers with a treasury of knowledge, able to skillfully explain all Buddha teachings. May all sentient beings become teachers with the freedom of the enlightened ones and be able to skillfully analyze the knowledge of the enlightened. May all sentient beings be teachers with the eye of thusness, explaining the truth without depending on the instruction of another. May all sentient beings become teachers who remember all the teachings of Buddhas, expounding them in accord with their principles, not deviating from the meaning of their expressions. May all sentient beings become teachers practicing the signless path, adorning themselves with subtle characteristics, emanating immeasurable light, skillfully entering into all truths. May all sentient beings become great-bodied teachers, their bodies pervading all lands, creating great clouds of teaching, showering the Buddha teachings.

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May all sentient beings become teachers preserving the treasury of the teachings, setting up the banner of invincibility, preserving the Buddha teachings, causing the ocean of true teaching not to diminish. May all sentient beings become teachers who are sons of all truths, attain the powers of analysis and elucidation of Buddhas, and skillfully explain all truths. May all sentient beings become teachers with skill and means of vocal expression, skillfully explaining the boundless treasury of the realm of truth. May all sentient beings become teachers who have arrived at the other shore of the doctrine, opening up the treasury of teaching with the spiritual powers of knowledge. May all sentient beings become teachers stably abiding by the true teaching,

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and expound the ultimate knowledge of the enlightened. May all sentient beings become teachers who have thoroughly comprehended all the teachings, able to explain infinite, inexhaustible virtues. May all sentient beings become teachers who don't deceive the world, able with skill and means to enter reality. May all sentient beings become teachers destroying the throngs of demons, able to be well aware of all workings of demons. May all sentient beings become teachers accepted by the Buddhas and get rid of the mind taken in by ego and possessiveness. May all sentient beings become teachers pacifying all worlds, Accomplishing the Willpower of Teaching of Truth of Enlightening Beings Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness in this way.

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They do not dedicate them because of attachment to deeds. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to rewards. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to mind. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to things. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to events. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to cause. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to words and speech. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to names, phrases, and statements. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to dedication. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to benefiting sentient beings. Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness in this way. They do not dedicate them because of involvement in forms.

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They do not dedicate them because of involvement in sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or things. They do not dedicate them to seek birth in heaven. They do not dedicate them to seek pleasure. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to objects of desire. They do not dedicate them in hopes of getting followers. They do not dedicate them in quest of rulership. They do not dedicate them for the sake of mundane happiness. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to life. They do not dedicate them because of enjoyment of existences. They do not dedicate them in search of the pleasures of union. They do not dedicate them because of seeking that which one may be fondly attached to. They do not dedicate them because of maliciousness. They do not dedicate them for that which would destroy roots of goodness.

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They do not dedicate them because of dependence on the world. They do not dedicate them because of attachment to stages of meditation, liberation, or concentration. They do not dedicate them because of dwelling in the vehicles of Buddhas, disciples and self-enlightened people. They only dedicate them to edify and pacify all sentient beings, to fulfill all knowledge, to attain unobstructed knowledge, to attain unhindered pure roots of goodness, to cause all sentient beings to transcend birth and death and realize great knowledge, to cause the great determination for enlightenment to be adamant and unbreakable, to accomplish the method of ultimate immortality, to adorn the lineage of Buddhas with infinite adornments, to reveal the freedom of universal knowledge, to seek enlightening beings' great spiritual superknowledge clarifying all things,

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to carry out the practice of universal good in all Buddhafields throughout the space of the cosmos, completely fulfilling it without regressing. Don the strong, durable armor of great vows and cause all sentient beings to abide in the realm of universal good. to liberate sentient beings throughout the future without resting and show the unobstructed light of the stage of universal knowledge forever uninterrupted. When great enlightening beings dedicate these roots of goodness, they dedicate them in these frames of mind. They dedicate roots of goodness with mindfulness of the equality of fundamental nature, with mindfulness of the equality of the essence of things, with mindfulness of the equality of the infinity of all sentient beings, with mindfulness of the equality of non-contradiction,

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with mindfulness of the equality of non-production of inherent nature, with a mind knowing all things without disturbance, with a mind entering into the equality of past, present, and future, with a mind producing the seed nature of Buddhas of all times, with a mind that has attained undiminishing spiritual powers, with a mind producing and maturing practical applications of universal knowledge. Also, they dedicate the roots of goodness to cause all sentient beings to forever leave behind all hells, to cause all sentient beings not to enter into animalistic dispositions, to cause sentient beings not to go to the realm of ghosts, to cause all sentient beings to get rid of all factors hindering enlightenment, to cause all sentient beings to fulfill all roots of goodness, to cause all sentient beings to be able to expound the teaching in accord with the time and bring joy to all, to cause all sentient beings to enter the sphere of the ten powers,

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to cause all sentient beings to fulfill the boundless pure ways and vows of enlightening beings, to cause all sentient beings to follow the instructions of all good spiritual teachers, so the vessel of the determination for enlightenment may be fulfilled. to cause all sentient beings to absorb, retain, and apply the most profound Buddha teachings and attain the light of knowledge of all Buddhas, to cause all sentient beings to cultivate the unobstructed practices of enlightening beings and always be in their presence, to cause all sentient beings to always see the Buddhas appearing before them to cause all sentient beings to always be in the presence of the pure light of the truth, to cause the fearless great determination for enlightenment to always be present in all sentient beings, to cause the inconceivable knowledge of enlightening beings to always occur to all sentient beings,

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to cause all sentient beings to everywhere rescue and safeguard living beings and cause the pure mind of great compassion to always be present, to cause all sentient beings to adorn all Buddha fields with unspeakably many superb ornaments, to cause all sentient beings to obliterate all ensnaring doings of conflict provoked by all demons, to cause all sentient beings to cultivate enlightening practices in all Buddha fields without relying on anything, to cause all sentient beings to develop knowledge of all means of liberation and enter the wide doors of all Buddha teachings, Great enlightening beings also dedicate these roots of goodness with purity of right mindfulness, with certainty of knowledge, knowing all the methods and expedients of the Buddha's teachings in order to accomplish immeasurable, unobstructed knowledge, desiring to fulfill pure transcendent aspirations by virtue of abiding kindness toward all sentient beings,

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by virtue of abiding compassion for all sentient beings, by virtue of abiding joy for all sentient beings, by virtue of abiding equanimity toward all sentient beings, in order to forever abandon attachment to duality and to live by supreme roots of goodness, in order to ponder, investigate, distinguish, and explain all aspects of interdependent origination, in order to establish the mind marked by great courage, in order to establish the treasury of invincibility, in order to demolish the hordes of demons, in order to attain unobstructed mindfulness of the purity of all things, in order to cultivate all enlightening practices without regressing, in order to attain the mind that happily seeks the Supreme Truth, in order to attain the free, pure, omniscient mind happily seeking all virtuous qualities,

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in order to fulfill all wishes and remove all conflict, attain free, pure, unobstructed Buddhahood, and expound the non-regressive teaching for all sentient beings, in order to become adorned by the hundreds of thousands of light beams of the sun of knowledge of the Supreme Truth of the Enlightened Ones, and illumine the sentient beings of all realms. in order to tame all sentient beings, always satisfying them according to their pleasures, not giving up their original vows throughout all time, listening to the true teaching, cultivating its great practice, attaining the undefiled light of pure wisdom, getting rid of all conceit, dissolving all afflictions, breaking the net of craving, destroying the darkness of delusion, and fulfilling the undefiled, unobstructed teaching in order to always cultivate the practice of universal knowledge

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through incalculable eons for the sake of all beings, without regressing, causing each to attain unobstructed wisdom and manifest the autonomous spiritual powers of the Buddhas without cease. When great enlightening beings dedicate roots of goodness in this way, they should not greedily cling to objects of desire. Why? Great enlightening beings should dedicate roots of goodness free from greed, should dedicate roots of goodness free from anger, should dedicate roots of goodness free from delusion, should dedicate roots of goodness free from malevolence, should dedicate roots of goodness free from pride, should dedicate roots of goodness free from deceitfulness, should dedicate roots of goodness of honesty, should dedicate roots of goodness of diligence, should dedicate roots of goodness of cultivation and practice.

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When great enlightening beings practice dedication in this way, they attain minds of pure faith, joyfully accepting the practices of enlightening beings, cultivating the pure great path of enlightening beings, endowed with the essence of Buddhahood, attaining enlightened knowledge and wisdom, abandoning all evil, getting rid of all manias, associating with good spiritual friends, and fulfilling their own great vows, they invite all sentient beings to partake of their charity. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness produced by this giving of teaching in this way. They cause all sentient beings to acquire clear, beautiful voices. gentle voices, voices like celestial drums, voices capable of articulating innumerable sounds, pleasant voices, pure voices, voices pervading all Buddha fields, voices adorned by countless qualities, far-ranging voices, sonorous voices eliminating all distraction, voices filling the cosmos,

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voices able to pick up the languages of all sentient beings and to acquire knowledge of the boundless sounds of all sentient beings, knowledge of all pure sounds of speech, knowledge of infinite sounds of speech, knowledge of the supremely free sound that enters all sounds, and to acquire all pure adorning speech tones, tones which all beings never tire of hearing, speech ultimately not bound to any world, joyful tones, pure tones of the speech of Buddhas, tones of speech expressing all Buddha teachings, unmuffled by delusion, famed everywhere, tones that cause all sentient beings to acquire the adornment of concentration formulations of all the teachings. tones of speech expressing innumerable kinds of teachings, sounds of speech reaching the infinite congregations at enlightenment sites throughout the cosmos, tones of speech containing indestructible expressions of inconceivable truths,

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speech revealing all facts, speech able to expound the treasury of knowledge of differences in unspeakably many words and phrases, speech that explains all things without attachment or interruption, speech shining with the light of all truths, speech able to cause all worldlings to be purified and ultimately reach universal knowledge, speech that contains the expressions and meanings of all the teachings, free, uninhibited speech maintained by spiritual powers, speech of the knowledge which reaches the other shore of all worlds. Also by these roots of goodness, they enable all sentient beings to acquire non-groveling speech, fearless speech, unobsessed speech, speech gladdening all congregations at sites of enlightenment, harmonious, beautiful speech, speech able to explain all the principles of Buddhahood,

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speech cutting off the doubts of all sentient beings and causing them to awaken, speech endowed with all powers of analysis and elucidation, speech awakening all sentient beings from their slumber in the long night of ignorance. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness in this way, May all sentient beings attain the pure reality body free from all faults and ills. May all sentient beings attain pure sublime virtues free from all faults and ills. May all sentient beings attain pure sublime characteristics free from all faults and ills. May all sentient beings attain the pure results of action free from all faults and ills. May all sentient beings attain the pure mind of universal knowledge free from all faults and ills.

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May all sentient beings attain the infinite pure will for enlightenment free from all faults and ills. May all sentient beings attain impeccable skill in means of comprehending all faculties. May all sentient beings attain impeccable pure faith. May all sentient beings attain impeccable pure diligence and carrying out commitments unimpeded may all sentient beings attain impeccable pure right mindfulness knowledge and powers of analysis and elucidation Great enlightening beings also dedicate roots of goodness for the sake of all sentient beings to the attainment of various pure subtle bodies, the body of light, the body of freedom from pollution, the body of non-obsession, the body of purity, the body of extreme purity,

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the body of detachment from objects of sense, the body of ultimate detachment from objects of sense, the body of freedom from defilement, the body of beauty, the body of non-obstruction, manifesting images of action in all worlds, manifesting images of speech in all worlds, manifesting images of construction in all abodes, like a clear mirror in which all kinds of images of forms spontaneously appear, showing sentient beings the practices of enlightenment, showing sentient beings the most profound truths, showing sentient beings all kinds of virtuous qualities, showing sentient beings the path of practice, showing sentient beings developmental practices, showing sentient beings the undertakings of enlightening beings, showing sentient beings in all worlds the appearance in the world of the Buddhas of all worlds, showing sentient beings the spiritual powers and mystical transfigurations of all Buddhas, showing sentient beings the awesome power of the inconceivable liberation of all enlightening beings,

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showing sentient beings the essence of omniscience, fulfilling the practical vows of the enlightening being, universal good. Great enlightening beings skillfully take care of all sentient beings with such subtle, pure bodies and enable them to attain the body of all knowledge with pure qualities." Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness generated by giving of the teaching to the aspiration to live in all worlds cultivating enlightening practices so that sentient beings who see them do not do so in vain, but develop the determination for enlightenment without ever regressing, follow the truth unshakably, and in all worlds throughout all time live indefatigably by the path of enlightening beings with great compassion, impartial and universal, as vast as the cosmos, knowing the faculties of sentient beings and ever explaining the truth to them according to the time, always rightly mindful of spiritual friends, never forgetting for an instant all the Buddhas always appearing before them,

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their minds always truly aware, never flagging, cultivating roots of goodness without any falsehood, placing all sentient beings in universal knowledge, causing them not to regress, imbued with the light of all the Buddha teachings, holding the clouds of the great teaching, receiving the rain of the great teaching, cultivating the practices of enlightening beings, entering in among all sentient beings, entering all Buddha fields, penetrating all phenomena and principles, penetrating all times, penetrating the knowledge of consequences of all sentient beings, penetrating the knowledge of skillful methods of all enlightening beings, penetrating the knowledge of production of all enlightening beings, penetrating the knowledge of the pure realm of all sentient beings, penetrating the autonomous spiritual powers of all Buddhas,

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penetrating all the boundless realms of reality and herein cultivating enlightening practice. Great enlightening beings also dedicate the roots of goodness cultivated by giving of teaching to the aspiration to purify all Buddha lands and adorn them with inexpressibly many embellishments. Each Buddha land as vast as the cosmos, purely good, without obstructions, with pure light, the Buddhas manifesting the attainment of true awakening therein, the pure realms in one Buddha-land able to reveal all Buddha-lands, and as of one Buddha-land, so of all Buddha-lands, each of those lands adorned with arrays of pure exquisite treasures as measureless as the cosmos, countless thrones of pure jewels spread with precious robes, countless jeweled curtains and jeweled nets draping,

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countless precious canopies with all kinds of jewels reflecting each other, countless jewel clouds raining jewels, countless jewel flowers all around, completely pure, countless pure arrays of balustrades made of jewels, countless jewel chimes always emitting the subtle tones of the Buddhas circulating throughout the cosmos, countless jewel lotuses of various jewel colors blooming with glorious radiance, countless jewel trees arrayed in rows all around with flowers and fruits of innumerable jewels, countless jewel palaces with innumerable enlightening beings living in them, countless jewel mansions, spacious, magnificent, long and wide, far and near, countless jewel ramparts with exquisite jewel ornaments, countless jewel gates hung all around with strings of beautiful jewels,

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countless jewel windows with pure arrays of inconceivable numbers of jewels, and countless jewel palms shaped like crescent moons made of clusters of jewels, all of these embellished with myriad jewels spotlessly pure, inconceivable, all produced by the roots of goodness of the enlightened, replete with adornments of countless treasuries of jewels. There are also countless jewel rivers from which flow all pure good principles, countless jewel seas filled with the water of the teaching, countless jewel lotuses always emitting the sound of the lotus of the sublime teaching, countless jewel polar mountains, monarchs of the mountains of wisdom, standing out completely pure. Countless eight-faced jewels strung on precious threads, incomparably beautiful and clear.

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Countless jewels of pure light always emanating the unimpeded light of great knowledge illumining the entire cosmos. Countless jewel chimes striking one another and producing wonderful tones. Countless pure jewels filled with jewels of enlightening beings. Countless jeweled streamers of many colors hung all around with radiant clear colors. Countless jeweled banners adorned with jeweled crescents. Countless jeweled pennants, each one able to shower innumerable jeweled pennants. Countless jeweled sashes hanging in the sky, beautifully adorned. Countless precious mats able to produce various kinds of subtle pleasant feelings. Countless jewel wreaths showing the enlightening beings' eye of universal knowledge.

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Countless jewel garlands, each garland the superb adornment of a hundred thousand enlightening beings. Countless jewel palaces, absolutely peerless. Countless jewel ornaments embellished with diamonds. Countless ornaments of all kinds of jewels, always displaying all pure, wonderful colors. Countless jewels with different shapes and colors, their lights reflecting with thorough clarity. Countless jewel mountains surrounding like a fence all around with unhindered purity. countless precious scents perfuming all worlds, countless precious magical events, each one pervading the cosmos, countless jewel light beams, each beam manifesting all lights, There are also countless jewel lights, the lights of pure knowledge, comprehensively illumining all things, and countless unimpeded jewel lights, each pervading the cosmos.

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There are countless jewel places where there are all kinds of precious substances and countless jewel treasuries revealing all the treasuries of the true teaching. countless jewel banners emblematic of the enlightened standing out on high, countless precious saints, images of saints of great knowledge, thoroughly pure, countless gardens of jewels producing the bliss of meditation of enlightening beings, countless precious sounds, the wondrous voice of the enlightened teaching all the world, countless jewel forms, each one emanating countless lights of sublime doctrines, countless precious marks, each one transcending common characteristics, countless precious modes of bearing, all who see which develop the joy and rapture of enlightening beings, countless collections of jewels, all who see which develop a collection of jewels of wisdom,

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countless precious peaceful abodes, all who see which develop a precious well-stabilized mind, countless precious garments, those who wear which develop the peerless concentration of enlightening beings, Countless precious vestments, those who wear which attain the spell of good vision as soon as they wish. Countless jewel practices, those who see which know all jewels are results of action definitively pure. Countless precious unhindered insights, those who perceive which can realize all pure objective vision. countless treasuries of jewel lights, those who see which immediately can attain the treasury of great knowledge, countless jewel thrones with Buddhas sitting on them like great lions roaring, countless jewel lamps always radiating the light of pure knowledge,

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countless jewel trees arrayed in rows wound with jewel ropes their adornments thoroughly pure also having countless jewel trunks standing high straight round and clean Countless jewel boughs, thick with adornments, with inconceivable numbers of birds flying around and gathering there, always warbling beautiful songs expressing the true teachings. Countless jewel leaves emitting the light of great knowledge pervading everywhere. Countless jewel flowers with innumerable enlightening beings sitting on each blossom, traveling throughout the cosmos and countless jewel fruits, those who see which will attain the fruit of non-regression from all knowledge. Also, there are countless jewel villages, those who see which give up the ways of worldly habitats, countless jewel cities filled with free beings,

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Countless palaces with monarchs in them who are endowed with the godlike body of enlightening beings, courageous and steadfast, wearing the armor of the truth, their minds unshrinking. Countless jewel houses, those who enter which can eliminate the mind of attachment to house and home, countless jewel garments, those who wear which can foster the understanding of non-attachment, countless jewel palaces filled with enlightening beings who have left home, countless jewel curios which bring immeasurable joy to those who see them, countless jewel wheels emanating inconceivable lights of knowledge turning the wheel that never turns back, Countless jewel trees adorned with indranets all pure. Countless jeweled grounds inlaid with inconceivably many jewels.

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Countless jewel pipes, their clear sounds filling the cosmos. Countless jewel drums, their wondrous sounds beating in harmony unbroken throughout the eons. Countless jewel sentient beings, all able to bear the jewel of the unexcelled teaching with countless jewel bodies replete with innumerable jewels of virtuous qualities. countless jewel mouths always uttering the voice of the jewels of all the sublime teachings countless jewel minds endowed with the jewel of pure intention set on great knowledge jewel mindfulness cutting off all folly and ultimately solidifying the jewel of universal knowledge, jewel super-knowledges reciting and retaining the jewels of all Buddha teachings. Jewel intellects understanding with certainty the treasure of all Buddha teachings.

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Jewel knowledges attaining the jewel of great complete omniscience. Jewel eyes mirroring the treasure of the ten powers without obstruction. Jewel ears hearing the infinite sounds of the whole realm of reality clearly and without obstruction. jewel noses always smelling the pure jewel fragrance of harmony, jewel tongues able to enunciate countless rules of speech, jewel bodies traveling unhindered throughout the ten directions, jewel minds always diligently cultivating the practical vows of universal good, jewel voices clear and beautiful pervading the worlds in the ten directions jewel acts guided by knowledge jewel speech always explaining the cultivation of the jewel of unobstructed knowledge

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and jewel thought, attaining the treasure of unimpeded great knowledge, which is ultimately complete. The great enlightening beings vow that in all those Buddha lands, in each direction of each Buddha land, in each and every place, even so minute as a hair tip, there be incalculable, boundless, unspeakable numbers of great enlightening beings, all accomplished in pure, clear knowledge, filling everywhere, in every point of space, in every place, in every direction of every Buddha-land throughout the cosmos. This is great enlightening beings' dedication of roots of goodness, vowing that all the Buddha lands should be replete with all kinds of precious adornments, as extensively told of the jewel ornaments, that they should have such adornments of fragrances, flowers, garlands, perfumes, incense, aromatic powders, robes, parasols and canopies, banners, pennants, crystals, and so on, a hundredfold more, all like the jewel ornaments.

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Great enlightening beings dedicate the roots of goodness amassed by such practices as the giving of teaching to nurturing all roots of goodness, to purifying all Buddha lands, to fully developing all sentient beings, to causing all sentient beings' minds to be pure and imperturbable. to causing all sentient beings to enter the most profound Buddha teaching, to causing all sentient beings to attain unsurpassable pure qualities, to causing all sentient beings to attain indestructible power of pure virtue, to causing all sentient beings to attain inexhaustible power of knowledge, liberate all living beings and enable them to enter Buddhahood. to causing all sentient beings to attain impartial, inexhaustible, pure speech, to causing all sentient beings to attain the equanimous, unobstructed I and achieve knowledge equal to the entire cosmos throughout space.

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to causing sentient beings to attain pure recollection and know all worlds of past ages, to causing all sentient beings to attain unobstructed great knowledge and be able to comprehend with certainty all treasuries of truths, to causing all sentient beings to attain unlimited, immeasurable, great enlightenment pervading the cosmos without any hindrance, to causing all sentient beings to attain impartial, non-discriminatory, homogeneous roots of goodness, to causing all sentient beings to attain pure physical, verbal, and mental action adorned with all virtues, to causing all sentient beings to accomplish action the same as universally good, to causing all sentient beings to be able to enter all homogeneously pure Buddha fields, to causing all sentient beings to examine universal knowledge, penetrate it, and fulfill it, to causing all sentient beings to be able to avoid partial roots of goodness,

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to causing all sentient beings to attain equanimous unvarying will, gradually fulfilling all knowledge, to causing all sentient beings to be able to live steadily by all good principles, to causing all sentient beings to instantly realize universal knowledge and reach the ultimate, to causing all sentient beings to be able to fulfill the pure path of omniscience. This is wherein they dedicate their roots of goodness. Once great enlightening beings have dedicated their roots of goodness in this way for the sake of all living beings, they also dedicate these roots of goodness because they want to fulfill and expound the power of all pure practical methods, because they want to achieve the spiritual power of pure practice and comprehend unspeakably many oceans of truths.

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because they want to be imbued with infinite lights of pure knowledge, equal to the cosmos in each ocean of truths. because they want to analyze and explain the different expressions and meanings of all teachings, because they want to accomplish the boundless vast concentration of the lights of all teachings, because they want to follow the powers of elucidation of the Buddhas of past, present, and future, because they want to develop the free body of all Buddhas of past, present, and future, because they respect the admirable, unhindered state of all Buddhas in order to fulfill the heart of great compassion and rescue all sentient beings without ever retreating, because they want to achieve the mind of unobstructed knowledge of infinite differentiations, untainted purity of senses, and enter all congregations and all sites of enlightenment.

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because they want to always turn the wheel of the impartial, non-regressive teaching in all Buddha lands, whether inverted or upright, coarse or subtle, broad or narrow, small or large, tainted or pure. because they want to attain fearlessness in every moment without end, all kinds of analytic and expository skills and the light of the sublime teaching to reveal and explain the truth. in order to happily seek all goodness, to learn and practice with determination all faculties growing better, to attain the great spiritual knowledge of all truths, because they want to draw near to and provide offerings at all congregations' enlightenment sites and expound the teachings to all sentient beings to make them joyful.

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Great enlightening beings also dedicate these roots of goodness in this way. They dedicate them by abiding in abodes infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in physical action infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in verbal action infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in mental action infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of matter infinite as the cosmos. by abiding in the equality of sensation, perception, patterning, and consciousness infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of aggregates infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of elements infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of sense media infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in internal equality infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in external equality infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of impulses infinite as the cosmos.

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by abiding in the equality of wills infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of means of liberation infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in equality of inclinations infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of faculties infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in equality of beginnings, middles, and ends infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of acts and consequences infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of defilement and purity, infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of living beings, infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of Buddha fields, infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of phenomena infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of mundane lights infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of Buddhas and enlightening beings infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of practices and vows infinite as the cosmos,

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by abiding in the equality of emancipations of enlightening beings infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of teaching and training of enlightening beings infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of non-duality of realms of reality infinite as the cosmos, by abiding in the equality of sites of enlightenment and congregations of Buddhas, infinite as the cosmos. When great enlightening beings practice dedication in this way, they abide in equal pure embodiments, infinite as the cosmos. They abide in equal pure speech, infinite as the cosmos. They abide in equal pure minds, infinite as the cosmos. They abide in equal pure commitments of enlightening beings, infinite as the cosmos.

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They abide in equal pure sites of enlightenment of congregations infinite as the cosmos. They abide in pure knowledge, infinite as the cosmos, equally explaining things for all enlightening beings. They abide in bodies, infinite as the cosmos, equally able to enter into all worlds in the cosmos. They abide in equal pure fearlessness of the light of all truths, able to cut away the nets of doubts of all sentient beings with one voice, gladdening them in accord with their faculties and inclinations, abiding in the ways of emancipation, the great virtues and spiritual powers and fearlessness of knowledge of all sciences of liberation. This is great enlightening beings' tenth dedication, dedication as infinite as the cosmos."

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When great enlightening beings dedicate all roots of goodness, such as giving of teaching in this way, they fulfill the infinite boundless commitment of universal good, are able to purify all Buddha fields throughout the cosmos equal to space, and cause all sentient beings to also attain such fully developed boundless knowledge, understand all truths, in every moment see all Buddhas appearing in the world, and in every moment see all Buddhas' infinite boundless powers, vast powers, powers of non-attachment, powers of unimpeded freedom, powers to purify all sentient beings, powers to structure all worlds, powers to manifest all languages, powers to appear appropriately in accord with the time, powers dwelling in irreversible spiritual knowledge, powers to explain all realms of reality exhaustively, powers producing the boundless eye of the enlightening being universally good, powers of hearing the true teachings of infinite Buddhas with unobstructed ear consciousness,

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powers to pervade the infinite cosmos with one body while sitting still without crowding the sentient beings, powers of penetration of all the infinite phenomena of past, present, and future by means of complete knowledge, They also realize infinite purities, purity of all sentient beings, purity of all Buddha fields, purity of all things, purity of comprehensive knowledge of all realms, purity of boundless knowledge pervading the realm of space. purity of knowledge of all different vocal sounds using various kinds of verbal expression adapted to all sentient beings. purity of radiance of infinite spheres of light illuminating all the boundless worlds, purity of knowledge producing the practices of all enlightening beings of past, present, and future, purity of knowledge instantly entering the sites of enlightenment of congregations of all Buddhas of past, present, and future,

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purity of entering into all worlds, boundless though they be, and causing all sentient beings to do what they should do. In all these they attained fulfillment, completion, accomplishment, equanimity, actualization, direct knowledge, and true realization, having seen into all of them, attained purity in all respects, and reached the other shore." At that point, by the spiritual power of the Buddha, in each of the ten directions, as many worlds as atoms in a million Buddha lands quaked in six ways, trembling, trembling all over, trembling equally all over, rising, rising all over, rising equally all over, surging, surging all over, surging equally all over, shaking, shaking all over, shaking equally all over, roaring, roaring all over,

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roaring equally all over, crashing, crashing all over, crashing equally all over. Because of the Buddha's spiritual power and by natural law, it rains celestial flowers, celestial garlands, celestial incense powders, celestial mixed perfumes, celestial raiment, celestial gems, celestial ornaments, celestial crystals, celestial aloe wood, celestial sandalwood incense, celestial parasols of surpassing beauty, all kinds of celestial banners, multicolored celestial pennants, countless celestial bodies, innumerable billions of unspeakable numbers of celestial sounds of the wonderful teaching, Inconceivably many celestial voices praising Buddha, countless celestial sounds of joyful eulogy, innumerable celestials bowed in respect, countless celestial children constantly remembrance to the Buddhas and immeasurable rare virtues of the enlightened ones.

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Countless celestial children made music and sang hymns of praise to offer the enlightened. Countless billions of celestials emanated great lights illuminating all Buddha fields in the entire cosmos throughout space, revealing countless realms of Buddhas and disguised bodies of the enlightened, surpassing all celestial beings. As such a teaching was expounded in the palace of the Tushita heaven of happiness and satisfaction in this world, so it was in the celestial palaces of the Tushita heavens in all worlds throughout the ten directions. Then, again by the spiritual power of Buddha, There assembled as many enlightening beings as atoms in a million Buddha fields, from beyond as many worlds as atoms in a million Buddha fields, in each of the ten directions, filling all quarters, all saying, Good, good, child of Buddha, you have ably explained these great dedications.

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We all have the same name, Diamond Banner, and all have come here from the presence of Diamond Banner Buddhas in all worlds in diamond light. In those worlds we expound this teaching by the spiritual power of Buddha, and the congregations, the followings, the expressions and doctrines are all like this, no more and no less. we have all come from those lands empowered by the Buddhas to stand as witnesses for you. And we have come to this assembly to be your witnesses. So also do the hosts of enlightening beings come to all the jewel-adorned halls of the palaces of the Tushita heavens in all worlds in the ten directions to be witnesses in the same way. Then the enlightening being Diamond Banner, spiritually empowered by Buddha, looked over all the congregations in the 10 directions reaching throughout the cosmos.

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Knowing expression and meaning well, she expanded her great mind with great compassion, covering all beings, fixing her mind on the lineage of the Buddhas of past, present, and future, and dwelling steadily thereon she entered into the ways to the qualities of all buddhas and attained the body of freedom of the buddhas she observed the inclinations of the minds of sentient beings as well as all the roots of goodness they had planted, knowing them all distinctly, and in accord with the body of reality, she manifested for them bodies of pure sublime forms. Then at this time she uttered verses saying, Enlightening beings accomplish knowledge of truth, understanding boundless ways of right teaching. Becoming teachers with the light of truth, they know the unobstructed genuine verity.

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Enlightening beings are great guides to truth. They reveal the most profound teaching hard to attain. Leading the measureless masses of the ten directions, they cause them to abide securely in truth. Enlightening beings have drunk the ocean of Buddha teachings. Their clouds of truth shower the worlds of the ten directions. The sun of truth appears in the world, revealing the sublime teaching for the benefit of the living. They are always rarely met donors of teaching, understand convenient means to enter truth. The light of truth, pure, illumines their minds and they teach in the world without fear. They have cultivated a mind in command of the teachings, able to understand all aspects thereof. Developing the deep, deep ocean of wondrous teaching, they beat the drum of truth for all sentient beings.

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They proclaim the most profound rare teaching with which are nurtured all virtues. Endowed with the mind of pure joy and truth, they show the world the treasury of Buddhahood. Anointed and crowned by the Buddhas, monarchs of truth, having developed the body of knowledge of the nature of things, they are able to understand the true character of all things and abide by all good ways. Enlightening beings practice the foremost giving praised by all the enlightened ones. All their acts are approved by Buddhas, thereby they perfect the most honorable humans. Enlightening beings have attained the subtle truth body, personally born by transformation of the Buddha teachings. To benefit the living, they are lamps of truth, expounding countless supreme principles.

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According to the giving of the wonderful teaching they practice, they also examine their roots of goodness. The good deeds they do for sentient beings they dedicate all with knowledge. The virtuous ways to attain Buddhahood they pass on to living beings, wishing that all may be pure and reach the Buddha's magnificent other shore. The Buddha lands of the ten directions are infinite, and all have infinite great adornments. Such adornments, inconceivable, are all used to adorn one land. The pure knowledge of the enlightened, they vow to enable all beings to have, like universally good, the true offspring of Buddha, adorning themselves with all virtues. Accomplishing vast spiritual power, they travel throughout all worlds, causing all beings without exception to practice the enlightening path.

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The countless sentient beings of the ten directions awakened by the Buddhas, they cause to be like universally good, fully carrying out the highest practice. The various different virtues achieved by the Buddhas and enlightening beings, they vow to have everyone fulfill, boundless though they be. Enlightening beings are endowed with the power of freedom and go to study wherever they should learn. Manifesting all great psychic powers, they go to the infinite lands of the ten directions. Enlightening beings are able in one instant to see countless Buddhas, many as beings, and also in a single hair tip concentrate all things, seeing all clearly. The sentient beings of the worlds, without measure, enlightening beings can distinguish and know.

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The Buddhas are as infinite as living beings. They generously present offerings to them all. All kinds of wonderfully scented flowers, jewels, clothes, penance, and parasols they distribute throughout the cosmos, determined to offer them to all Buddhas. In a single pour, they clearly see all the inconceivably many Buddhas, and so it is in every pour. They bow to all the lamps of the worlds. With their whole bodies, they successively bow in respect for those boundless victors. They also praise them with their words forever and evermore. Their offerings to one Buddha are as numberless as sentient beings. Thus do they make offerings to one Buddha and to all Buddhas in the same way. They provide for and laud the Buddhas throughout all ages of the world.

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The ages of the world may come to an end, but enlightening beings' offerings never cease. In the various ages of all worlds, they cultivate practices there, honoring and attending one Buddha tirelessly throughout all ages. As they provide for one Buddha for immeasurable eons, so do they also for all Buddhas. Yet they do not think of the number of eons or ever tire of making offerings. The cosmos is boundlessly vast. Enlightening beings observe it with clear comprehension, spreading great lotus blossoms throughout as presents to Buddhas infinite as beings. Jewel flowers of perfect color and scent, pure ornaments, most delicate, beyond compare in any world, they bring to offer the most noble of humans.

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Infinite lands, many as sentient beings, they fill with precious canopies, which they offer to one Buddha and do the same for all Buddhas. Perfumes, incomparable, most excellent, never before found in any world, they offer to the guide of humans and divines throughout eons as many as beings. Powder and burning incense, exquisite flowers, jewels, raiment, and ornaments, they present to the supreme victors, joyfully serving them tirelessly." World-illumining lamps, as many as beings, attain great enlightenment every moment, and boundless verses of eulogy and exposition they present to the human tamers. To Buddhas, numerous as living beings, they make most excellent offerings.

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For eons, countless as living beings, they praise them without end. When they make offerings to the Buddhas this way, by Buddha's spiritual power they extend everywhere, seeing all the infinite Buddhas of the ten directions abiding in the practice of the universally good, enlightening being. All the roots of goodness of past, future, and present enable us to always carry out universal good practice and quickly gain the station of the realm of universal good. May the infinite sentient beings of the world seen by all the Buddhas become like universally good, praised by the intelligent. This is the practice of dedication cultivated in common by all great beings. All the Buddhas explain for us this unexcelled practice of dedication to enable all living beings in all worlds in the ten directions to attain awakening and enlightenment and to always act as universally good does.

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practicing giving in accord with their dedication and also strictly maintaining the precepts, persevering over the long run, unshrinking, tolerant, gentle, minds unstirred, in meditation keeping the mind on one point, by wisdom comprehending objects same as concentration, penetrating past, future, and present, to which none in the world can find any bounds. Enlightening beings' physical, verbal, and mental actions, like this practice, are all pure. all they cultivate omitting none, all on a par with the enlightening being universally good. Like the cosmos, free from false discrimination, the stain of inanity is forever gone. And as nirvana has no obstructions, their minds likewise are free from all grasping.

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The principles of dedication of the wise the Buddhas have revealed. All kinds of roots of goodness they dedicate. Therefore they can accomplish the enlightening path. Off-string of Buddha learn this dedication well, fulfilling innumerable undertakings, taking in the cosmos comprehensively. Therefore they can attain the power of the blissful ones. If you want to accomplish, as the Buddha explains, the great superlative practices of enlightening beings, you should live by this dedication. Such offspring of Buddha are called universally good. All living beings may be counted and the experiences of past, present, and future minds may be known, but the virtues of such universally good offspring of Buddha cannot be measured. The bounds of space may be measured with a hair, the number of atoms in all lands may be known, but the practical vows by which these sages live cannot be measured by anyone.

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