Book 15, The Ten Abodes. Then the enlightening being, Truth Wisdom, empowered by the Buddha, entered into the concentration of infinite techniques of enlightening beings. By the power of concentration, there appeared before her Buddhas as numerous as atoms in a thousand Buddha fields, from each of the ten directions, beyond as many worlds as atoms in a thousand Buddha fields. All of those Buddhas had the same name, Truth Wisdom. They said to the enlightening being, Truth Wisdom, excellent, excellent, good woman, that you are able to enter this enlightening being's concentration of infinite techniques. Good woman, in each of the ten directions, as many Buddhas as atoms in a thousand Buddha fields all together

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empower you with their spiritual force. And this is also the spiritual power of the force of Vairochana Buddha's ancient vows, as well as the power of the roots of goodness you have cultivated, whereby you enter this concentration, allowing you to expound the teaching for growth in enlightened knowledge, to enter deeply into the realm of reality, to comprehend well the worlds of sentient beings, to be unhindered in whatever is entered into, to be unobstructed in all activities, to attain incomparable skill and means, to enter the essence of omniscience, to be aware of all things, to know all faculties, to be able to hold and expound all the teachings. That is to say, bringing forth the ten abodes of

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enlightening beings. Good woman, you should receive the spiritual power of the Buddhas and expound this teaching. Then the Buddhas gave the enlightening being truth wisdom, unhindered knowledge, unattached knowledge, unbroken knowledge, knowledge free from ignorance, unvarying knowledge, knowledge without loss, immeasurable knowledge, unexcelled knowledge, unremitting knowledge, and knowledge that cannot be taken away. Why? Because the power of this concentration is naturally this way in principle. Now the Buddhas all extended their right hands and rubbed truth wisdom's head. Then the enlightening being truth wisdom emerged from concentration and declared to the enlightening beings, children of Buddhas,

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the abode of enlightening beings is vast, as vast as the space of the cosmos. Enlightening beings dwell in the house of the Buddhas of past, present, and future. The abodes of enlightening beings I shall now explain. Buddha children, there are ten kinds of abodes of enlightening beings, which in the past, future, and present Buddhas have explained, will explain, and do explain. What are the ten? They are the abode of initial determination, the abode of preparing the ground, the abode of practice action, the abode of noble birth, the abode of fulfillment of skill and means, the abode of the correct state of mind, the abode of non-regression, the abode of youthful nature, the abode of Prince of the

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teaching, the abode of coronation. These are called the ten abodes of enlightening beings, expounded by the Buddhas of past, future, and present. What is the enlightening beings abode of initial determination? The enlightening beings seeing the magnificence of the Buddhas, which people like to see, rarely encountered, having great power, or seeing their spiritual powers, or hearing predictions of enlightenment, or listening to their teachings and instructions, or seeing sentient beings suffering severe pains, or hearing the far-reaching teaching of enlightenment of the Buddhas, develop the determination for enlightenment to seek omniscience. The enlightening beings arouse determination with ten difficult-to-attain objectives, the knowledge of what is so and what is not, knowledge of consequences of good and bad

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actions, knowledge of superiority and inferiority of faculties, knowledge of the differences of various understandings, knowledge of the differences of various realms, knowledge of where all paths lead, knowledge of all meditations, liberations, and concentrations, knowledge of past lives, clairvoyance, knowledge of the universal end of indulgence for all time. Here the enlightening beings should encourage and study ten things, diligently making offerings to the Buddhas, gladly remaining in the world, guiding worldly people to reject evil deeds, always carrying on instruction by means of the most sublime teaching, praising the unexcelled teaching, learning the virtues of Buddhahood, being born in the presence of Buddhas and always

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being received into their company, expediently expounding tranquil concentration, extolling detachment from the cycle of birth and death, being a refuge for suffering beings. What is the reason? To cause enlightening beings' minds to broaden in the Buddha's teaching and to be able to understand whatever teaching they hear without depending on another's instruction. What is the enlightening beings' abode of preparing the ground? Here the enlightening beings develop ten attitudes toward all living beings, altruism, compassion, wish to give happiness, wish to give security, pity, care, protecting, identification, considering them as teachers, considering them as guides. Here the enlightening beings should

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encourage and study ten things, study and learning, uncluttered tranquility, association with the wise, gentle pleasing speech, speech appropriate to the occasion, fearlessness, understanding, acting in accord with the teaching, avoiding folly and delusion, stability. What is the reason? To cause enlightening beings to increase great compassion towards sentient beings and to immediately understand whatever teachings they hear without relying on the instruction of another. What is the enlightening beings' abode of practice? Here enlightening beings contemplate all things through ten practices, observing that all things are impermanent, all things are painful, all things are empty, all things are selfless, all things have no creation,

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all things are flavorless, all things do not correspond to the names, all things have no locus, all things are apart from discrimination, all things lack stable solidity. Here the enlightening beings should encourage and study ten things, observing the realms of sentient beings, the realms of phenomena and principles, and the realms of the world, observing the elements of earth, water, fire, and air, observing the realms of desire, form, and formlessness. What is the reason? To cause enlightening beings knowledge to be perfectly clear so they can immediately understand any teaching they hear without depending on the instruction of another. What is the enlightening beings' abode of noble birth? Here the enlightening beings are

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born from the wise teaching and perfect ten things, never regressing from the presence of the buddhas, profoundly engendering pure faith, carefully examining things, thoroughly knowing living beings, lands, worlds, actions, consequences, birth and death, and nirvana. Here the enlightening beings should encourage and study ten things, knowing all past, future, and present buddha's teachings, practicing and accumulating all past, future, and present buddha's teachings, fulfilling all past, future, and present buddha's teachings, and knowing that all buddhas are equal. What is the reason? To cause progress and equanimity in respect to past, present, and future, and to be able to understand any teaching heard without relying on the instruction of another.

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What is the enlightening beings' abode of fulfilling skill and means? Here the roots of goodness cultivated by the enlightening beings are all to save all sentient beings, to benefit all sentient beings, to cause all sentient beings to be free from calamities and difficulties, to cause all sentient beings to leave the miseries of birth and death, to cause all sentient beings to develop pure faith, to cause all sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified, to cause all sentient beings to experience nirvana. Here the enlightening beings should encourage and learn ten things, to know sentient beings are boundless, to know sentient beings are infinite, to know sentient beings are countless, to know sentient beings are inconceivable, to know sentient beings infinite forms, to know sentient beings are immeasurable,

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to know sentient beings are empty, to know sentient beings create nothing, to know sentient beings possess nothing, to know sentient beings have no identity. What is the reason? To cause the mind to increase in mastery and have no attachments. and to immediately understand any teaching heard without depending on the instruction of another. What is the enlightening being's abode of the correct state of mind? Here the enlightening being's mind is steady and unwavering, even when hearing these ten things. Hearing the Buddha praised or reviled, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing the teaching praised or reviled, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing enlightening beings praised or reviled, the mind is steady and

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unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing the practices of enlightening beings praised or reviled, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing it said that living beings are finite or infinite, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing it said that sentient beings are defiled or undefiled, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing it said that sentient beings are easy to liberate or difficult to liberate, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing it said that there is becoming or disintegration of the universe, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Hearing it said that the universe exists

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or does not exist, the mind is steady and unwavering in regard to the Buddha's teaching. Here the enlightening being should study and encourage the study of ten things, that all things are signless, all things are insubstantial, all things cannot be cultivated, all things have no existence, all things have no true reality, all things are empty, all things lack inherent nature, all things are like illusions, all things are like dreams, all things have no discrimination. What is the reason? To cause the mind to progress further, to attain non-regressing acceptance of the non-origination of things and immediately understand whatever teaching is heard without depending on the instruction of another.

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What is the enlightening being's abode of non-regression? Here the enlightening being remains firm and does not regress even when hearing these ten things. Hearing that buddhas do or do not exist, the mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that truth exists or does not exist, the mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that enlightening beings do or do not exist, the mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that enlightening being's practices do or do not exist, the mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that enlightening beings do or do not attain emancipation through their practices. The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that there were or were not Buddhas in the past.

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The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that there will or will not be Buddhas in the future. The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing there are or are not Buddhas in the present. The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that a Buddha's knowledge is finite or infinite. The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Hearing that past, present and future are uniform or not uniform. The mind does not regress in the Buddha's teaching. Here the enlightening being should encourage and study 10 far-reaching principles. Explaining one is many. Explaining many are one. Literary expression according with meaning. Meaning according with literary expression. Non-existence is

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existence. Existence is non-existence. Formless is form. Form is formlessness. Nature is nature-less. Nature-less is nature. What is the reason? To progress further. To be able to gain emancipation from all things. To understand any teaching without relying on another's instruction. What is the enlightening being's abode of youthful nature? Here the enlightening being abides in 10 kinds of activity. Physically acting without error. Verbally acting without error. Mentally acting without error. Being born at will. Knowing the various desires of sentient beings. Knowing the various understandings of sentient beings. Knowing the various realms of sentient beings. Knowing the various

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activities of sentient beings. Knowing the becoming and decay of the world. Going anywhere freely by psychic projection. Here the enlightening being should encourage and study 10 kinds of things. Knowing all buddha lands. Activating all buddha lands. Maintaining all buddha lands. Observing all buddha lands. Visiting all buddha lands. Traveling in countless worlds. Receiving innumerable teachings of buddhas. Manifesting a body with freedom to metamorphose. Producing a far-reaching universal voice. Serving and providing for countless buddhas in a single instant. What is the reason? To advance in skillfulness in applying teachings. To be able to understand any teaching without depending on another's instructions. What is the enlightening being's abode as the

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prince of the teaching? Here enlightening beings know 10 things well. They know how sentient beings are born. They know the origin of afflictions. They know the continuation of habit energy. They know what techniques are to be employed. They know innumerable teachings. They understand all modes of dignified behavior. They know the differentiations of the world. They know past and future events. They know how to explain conventional truth. They know how to explain ultimate truth. Here the enlightening beings should study and encourage the study of 10 things. The skills proper to a king of the teaching. The regulations and manners proper to a king of the teaching. The abode of a king of the teaching. That which a king of the teaching

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enters into. The contemplations proper to a king of the teaching. The coronation of a king of the teaching, the power and sustenance of a king of the teaching, the fearlessness of a king of the teaching, the repose of a king of the teaching, the praise of a king of the teaching, what is the reason to promote progress and not obstruction of mind, to understand any teaching spontaneously, without relying on the instruction of another. What is the enlightening beings abode of coronation? Here the enlightening being perfects 10 kinds of knowledge, shaking countless worlds, illuminating countless worlds, supporting countless worlds, traveling to countless worlds, purifying

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countless worlds, teaching countless sentient beings, observing countless sentient beings, knowing the faculties of countless sentient beings, causing countless sentient beings to strive to enter enlightenment, causing countless sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified. This enlightening beings body and physical activities, various manifestations of spiritual powers, past, future and present knowledge, development of a Buddha land, state of mind and realm of knowledge are all unknowable. Even an enlightening being in the station of Prince of the teaching cannot know them. Here the enlightening being should promote and study 10 kinds of knowledge proper to Buddha's knowledge of past, present and future, knowledge of enlightening teachings,

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knowledge of the harmony of the universe, knowledge of the boundlessness of the universe, knowledge filling all worlds, knowledge illuminating all worlds, knowledge supporting all worlds, knowledge of all sentient beings, knowledge of all things, knowledge of the infinite Buddhas. What is the reason? To increase in knowledge of all particulars and all means of liberation and spontaneously understand any teaching without depending on the instruction of another. Then due to the spiritual power of the Buddha, in each of the 10 directions, as many worlds as atoms in 10,000 Buddha lands quaked in six ways. There rained celestial flowers, celestial incense powder, celestial garlands, celestial perfumes,

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celestial jewel raiment, celestial jewel clouds, celestial ornaments, celestial music spontaneously played with radiant lights and exquisite sounds. As in this world on the peak of Mount Sumeru in the palace of King Indra, the 10 abodes were expounded and supernatural manifestations appeared. So also did the same thing transpire in all worlds. And due to the spiritual power of the Buddha, in the 10 directions, past as many worlds as atoms in 10,000 Buddha lands, there were as many enlightening beings as atoms in 10 Buddha lands who came here, filling the 10 directions and said these words, excellent, excellent, Oh, child of Buddha, you have explained this teaching. Well, we too all have

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the same name, truth, wisdom, and the lands we come from are all called truth cloud. And the Buddhas in those lands are all named sublime truth. In the presence of our Buddhas, we to expound the 10 abodes, and the congregations and followings, the words and phrases, the doctrines and principles are all like this, with no addition or omission. Receiving spiritual power from the Buddha, we have come into this assembly to be witnesses for you, as it is in this assembly. So it is in all the worlds there are in the 10 directions. Then the enlightening being truth wisdom, imbued with the power of the Buddha looked over the 10 directions throughout the cosmos and spoke these verses. Seeing the subtle body of the supremely wise,

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replete with adorning marks and refinements, so honorable and rare to meet, enlightening beings boldly make their resolve. Seeing incomparable great spiritual powers, hearing tell of mind reading and appropriate teaching, and the immeasurable sufferings of mundane beings, enlightening beings thereby first become determined. Hearing the enlightened ones, universally supremely honored, have perfected all meritorious and virtuous qualities, like space, not discriminating, thereby do enlightening beings develop resolve. The causes and effects of past, present and future are called what is so. The inherent nature of self and phenomena is called what is not so. Wanting to know the genuine truth, do enlightening beings therefore

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arouse their will. All the good and evil deeds there be in past, future and present worlds, do they want to know completely. Therefore enlightening beings are determined. All meditations, liberations and concentrations, defiled and pure of countless kinds. They want to know all entry abiding and exit. Therefore do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. According to the sharpness or dullness of beings faculties, so are their powers of effort also various. Wanting to understand and know them all distinctly, do enlightening beings therefore arouse determination. Sentient beings have various understandings, and their mental inclinations are each different. Wanting to know all these innumerable inclinations, do

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enlightening beings therefore arouse their will. The realms of sentient beings are each different. There is no measure to all the worlds there are. Wanting to know completely their substance and nature, do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. The paths of all fabricated actions each have a destination. Wanting to know the true nature of all, do enlightening beings arouse their determination. The sentient beings of all worlds bob and flow according to their deeds without cease. Wanting to attain the celestial eye to see them all, do enlightening beings arouse their will. Such constitutions and such characteristics as there were in past ages, they want to know as former lives. So enlightening beings arouse

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aspiration. The continuity appearance and habit energy of the binding delusions of all sentient beings, they want to know thoroughly and finally, so enlightening beings thus arouse their will. Of all the various philosophies and theories, which sentient beings may set up, they want to know the worldly truth. So enlightening beings thus arouse determination. All things are beyond speech. Their nature is empty, null, and creates nothing. Wishing to clearly arrive at this truth, do enlightening beings therefore arouse their will. Wanting to shake the worlds of the 10 directions and overturn all the oceans, fulfilling the great spiritual powers of the Buddhas, do enlightening beings arouse determination. Wanting to emit

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lights from a single pore that will illumine infinite lands in the 10 directions, in each light awakening all, do enlightening beings therefore arouse aspiration. Wanting to take inconceivably many Buddha lands and put them in their palms without moving, comprehending all is like magic illusions, so enlightening beings arouse their determination. Wanting to take the beings of innumerable lands and put them on a hair tip without crowding, knowing all have no person and no self, therefore do enlightening beings arouse their will. Wanting to take drops from the ocean on a hair so as to dry up all the oceans, while specifically knowing the number of drops, therefore do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. Reducing entirely to dust, inconceivable numbers of

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worlds, wanting to know distinctly the number of particles, do enlightening beings arouse their will. Wanting to comprehend exhaustively the signs of becoming and decay of all worlds in countless eons past and future, do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. Wanting to know all the teachings of all the Buddhas of all times, all self enlightened ones and Buddha's disciples, do enlightening beings arouse their determination. Wanting to pick up with a single hair countless boundless worlds and know their substances and forms as they are, do enlightening beings arouse their will. Wanting to put in a pore countless mountain chains and know their sizes as they

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are, do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. Wanting to preach appropriately to all kinds of beings everywhere with a single subtle voice of tranquility and peace and cause them all to purely clearly comprehend, do enlightening beings arouse their determination. To utter in a single word what is spoken by all sentient beings, wanting to know all their inherent natures, do enlightening beings arouse their will. Producing all spoken sounds of the worlds to make all realize peaceful dispassion, wanting to attain such a marvelous tongue, do enlightening beings arouse their aspiration. Wanting to cause all to see the signs of becoming and decay of all worlds and know they are born of conceptions, do

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enlightening beings arouse their determination. All worlds in the 10 directions are filled with countless Buddhas, wanting to know all the teachings of those Buddhas, do enlightening beings arouse their will. Countless bodies of various transformations, numerous as atoms in all worlds, wanting to comprehend they all come from mind, do enlightening beings rouse this determination. Wanting to know in a single thought, the measureless countless Buddhas of past, future and present worlds, do enlightening beings rouse this aspiration. Wanting to expound the one phrase teaching for incalculable eons without exhausting it, yet have the expressions and nuances be each different. Do enlightening beings therefore arouse this

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will. Wanting to know in a single thought, the signs of cyclic births and deaths of all sentient beings everywhere, do enlightening beings rouse their aspiration. Wanting to go everywhere unhindered through physical, verbal and mental action, and comprehend all times are empty and null, do enlightening beings rouse determination. Having thus determined to become enlightened, they should be made to go to all lands to honor and provide for the enlightened ones, whereby to cause them not to regress. Enlightening beings bravely seeking the Buddha way, stay in birth and death unwearied, for others extolling what will make them follow the way, and thus cause them never to regress. Being honorable leaders in countless lands in the worlds of the 10 directions,

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teach like this for the enlightening beings, whereby to cause them not to regress. The supreme, the highest, the foremost profound and subtle purest teaching urge enlightening beings to teach to people, whereby to cause them to be rid of afflictions. The unshakable realm of victory, peerless in all the worlds, always extols for other enlightening beings to cause them not to regress. Buddha is the great powerful leader of the world, replete with all merits and virtues, causing enlightening beings to abide herein, thereby teaching them to be superior people. To countless boundless Buddha's places, they can go and draw near, always taken in to the company of Buddhas, thus causing them not to regress. To destroy

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the wheels of birth and death, and turn the wheel of the pure wondrous teaching without attachment to any world, such as the teaching for enlightening beings. All sentient beings fall into evil ways, bound and oppressed by measureless pains, to be saviors and reliances for them is the teaching for enlightening beings. This is enlightening beings abode of initial determination, with single minded will seeking the unexcelled path, as is the teaching of which I speak. So is the teaching of all the Buddhas. In the second abode of preparing the ground, enlightening beings should form this thought. All sentient beings everywhere, I vow to induce to follow the Buddha's teaching with a mind to aid them with compassion, to give them peace and ease, to

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establish them securely, with sympathy and acceptance, protecting sentient beings, looking upon them as the same as themselves, as teachers and as guides. Once abiding in these sublime states of mind, next they are directed to study and learn to always enjoy peace and quiet and right meditation and draw near to all good associates. Speaking gently, with no roughness or harshness, always speaking appropriately to the situation without fear, comprehending the meaning of the teaching and acting in accord, leaving ignorance and delusion behind the mind unmoving. This is the practice of beginning study for enlightenment. Those who can do these things are true children of the Buddhas. I now explain what they should

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practice. Thus should Buddha children diligently study. In the third abode of enlightening beings practice, they should earnestly contemplate according to Buddhist teaching, the impermanence, painfulness and emptiness of all things, the absence of self person and activity. All things cannot be enjoyed. None accord with their names. They have no location. There's nothing of what is conceived, no true reality in those who contemplate thus are called enlightening beings. Next they are made to observe the realms of sentient beings and urge to contemplate the elemental cosmos, all the various differentiations of the worlds, they all should be urged to contemplate and observe the worlds of the 10 directions and

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space, their earth, water, fire and air, the realms of desire, form and formlessness. They are exhorted to investigate thoroughly. Examining the individual distinctions of those realms, their substances and natures exhaustively receiving this teaching diligently cultivating its practice is what is called being true Buddha children. Enlightening beings in the fourth abode, noble birth are born from the teachings of the sages, comprehending that existence have no existence, they transcend things and are born in the realm of reality. Their faith in Buddha is firm and unbreakable. Their dispassionate mind contemplating things is at peace. Whatever beings there be, they

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comprehend all are essentially false without true reality. Worlds, lands, actions and rewards, birth, death and nirvana are all like this. Buddha children contemplating things this way are born from Buddha parents and are called Buddha children. To know the accumulation and fulfillment of all the Buddha's teachings in the past, present and future worlds. Thus they study to the ultimate end. All the enlightened ones of past, present and future, they can contemplate all equal, in which various distinctions cannot be found. Those who meditate thus comprehend the three time frames. If any can practice diligently according to the teaching, the virtues of this fourth abode, such as I am now

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extolling, they will soon accomplish unsurpassed enlightenment. From here, enlightening beings of the fifth abode, called the abode of fulfilling skill and means, enter deeply into infinite expedient skills, developing ultimate virtuous action. The virtues produced by enlightening beings are all to rescue living beings dedicated to aiding and comforting them. They wholeheartedly pity them and liberate them, removing difficulties for all beings, drawing them out of existences, making them happy. They pacify all, leaving none out, making them all turn to nirvana, full of virtue. Sentient beings are boundless, incalculable, countless, inconceivably many, and cannot be told of or

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measured. Enlightening beings accept this teaching of the Buddha. These Buddha children in the fifth abode develop skillful means to liberate sentient beings. The saint of great knowledge with all virtues enlightens them with teachings like this. In the sixth abode, the fulfillment of right mindfulness, there is no confusion about the inherent nature of things. Meditating with right mindfulness, detaching from discrimination, one cannot be moved by any God or human. Hearing praise or slander of the Buddhas or their teachings of enlightening beings and the practices they perform, or that sentient beings are finite or infinite, defiled or undefiled, easy or hard to liberate, or that the cosmos is

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great or small, becomes or decays, or exists or does not, the mind is unmoved. Past, future and present, thinking clearly, always sure, all things are signless, insubstantial, without inherent nature, empty, unreal, like illusions, like dreams, beyond conception. They always delight in hearing such doctrines. Enlightening beings of the seventh abode of non-regression never regress in spite of whatever they hear, about Buddhas, the Dharma, or enlightening beings, whether or not they exist, whether or not they escape, whether or not there are Buddhas, past, present and future, whether Buddha knowledge is finite or infinite, whether the past, present and

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future are uniform or various. One is many, many are one. Expression follows meaning, meaning follows expression. Thus do all interdependently become. This is what those who don't regress should explain. Whether things have signs or are signless, whether they have inherent nature or not, various distinctions subsume each other. These people hearing this attain the ultimate. Enlightening beings in the eighth abode, youthful nature, fulfill physical, verbal and mental actions, all pure, without mistakes. They are freely born as they will, and know the inclination of sentient beings, their various understandings, each different, and all the factors involved therein, and the signs of becoming and decay

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of all lands, attaining to wondrous psychic powers of swiftness. They go anywhere as soon as they think of it. Listening to the teachings from various Buddhas, they praise and practice unflagging. They comprehend all Buddha lands, shaking, supporting and contemplating, going beyond incalculable Buddha lands. They travel in worlds without number to ask about innumerable principles, free to take on any physical form. Their skill and speech pervades everywhere as they serve countless Buddhas. Enlightening beings in the ninth abode of the prince can see the difference in births of sentient beings. Knowing their afflictions and habits, they understand which techniques to employ. Individual differences in

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teachings and in modes of bearing, dissimilarities of worlds, past and future times, in accord with their conventional and ultimate realities, all they know completely, leaving none out. The skillful setups of kings of the teaching, the doctrines they establish according to the situation, the palaces of kings of teaching and their entries, as well as what is seen therein, the laws of coronation of the kings of teaching, their spiritual capacities, empowerments, and fearlessnesses, their rooms of repose, as well as their praises. With these they instruct the princes of the teaching, explaining all this for them exhaustively, and causing their minds to have no attachments. As they comprehend this and cultivate right mindfulness, all

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the Buddhas appear before them. True Buddha kings of the tenth abode of coronation fulfill the unexcelled foremost teaching. All the countless worlds in the ten directions they can cause to quake and illumine with their light, maintaining and traveling to all without exception, fully purifying and adorning them all. They teach sentient beings without number, observing and knowing their faculties completely, inspiring and training boundless beings too, causing them all to turn to great enlightenment. Observing all phenomenal realms, they travel to all lands in the ten directions, their embodiments and physical actions there, their spiritual powers and metamorphosis are unfathomable. The realms of lands of the

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Buddhas of all times, even the princes of the teaching cannot understand the knowledge of all times of the all seeing knowledge, understanding all Buddhas teachings, unhindered boundless knowledge of the realm of realities, knowledge filling all worlds, supporting knowledge, illumining the world, knowledge, comprehending the states of all beings, and the boundless knowledge of true awakening. The Buddhas explain for them, so they will consummate them. Thus the enlightening beings of the ten abodes are all born by transformation from the teachings of the enlightened their practices, according to the virtues they have no humans or gods are able to fathom. In the past, future and present worlds, boundless are those who set their minds to attain

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Buddhahood. They fill all lands in the 10 directions, all determined to become omniscient. Boundless is the totality of all lands, boundless to are the states of worlds and beings, their delusions, actions and inclinations each different due to them enlightening beings aspire to enlightenment. The very first thought to seek Buddhahood, worldlings, or even those of the two vehicles cannot know, much less the other virtuous practices. If one can lift with a single hair, all the worlds in the 10 directions, one can know these Buddha children's progression toward the wisdom of the enlightened ones. If one can drain by drops with a hair, the waters of all oceans in the 10 directions, one can know the virtuous deeds

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practiced by these Buddha children in a single instant. If one can reduce all worlds to dust, and know the specific number of each moat, such a person alone can see the path traversed by these Buddha children. The Buddhas of all places and times, all self enlightened ones and Buddha's disciples, all with various powers of elucidation, illustrate the mind first bent on enlightenment. The virtues of this aspiration cannot be measured. If all the knowledges filling all realms of beings were to explain together, they could not exhaust it, much less the rest of the wondrous practices carried out.

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