Sutra Of Innumerable Meanings - The Ten Merits Of Buddhahood

From where does this sutra of innumerable meanings

come from, where does it go and where does

it settle down in, o World Teacher?

Pleased through hearing this question posed to him,

the Buddha responds to the inquiries

of the Bodhisattva of Great Adornment.

Coming from the mind of infinity,

it passes through and settles down in the mind of infinity.

Going nowhere, it leaves from nowhere.

Leaving from nowhere, be at peace.

Being at peace, be with the Buddha nature.

The first merit of this sutra

is that it makes every negative quality into a positive quality

and every positive quality into a formless teaching of the Dharma Wheel.

Overcoming hatred through love

and love through wisdom,

wisdom is what eradicates the darkest aspects

of a living being's heart.

The second merit of this sutra

is that from just one seed or one thought,

a whole ocean of penetrating realizations is produced.

Multiplying in meaning each time

it is read and meditated upon,

the lightning bolt of illumination

encompasses every topic that is worthy of study.

Like a single raindrop,

the raindrop that manages to sink

to the bottom of the fertile soils of the mind

produces an unending amount of healthy and life affirming thoughts.

The third merit of this sutra

is that it can make any practitioner

into a bodhisattva overnight.

Wrestling with fear and anxiety,

either on an individual or planetary scale,

a bodhisattva is born into this world

for the purpose of lifting the meaning

of birthlessness to the born state of every living being.

Though not personally delivered

from the clutches of Mara,

a practitioner of this sutra can perform miracles

in the blink of an eye.

Thinking that you are ignorant of being a bodhisattva,

weakness of heart is what gives a practitioner strength of heart.

Having strength to serve, serve the good qualities of mindfulness.

The fourth merit of this sutra

is that even the most neophyte

of minds will be able to explain

its deeper meanings to others

with the ease of a slowly passing cloud.

The Buddha King and Sutra Queen

grab onto a practitioner's Buddha nature,

nurturing the arising Bodhisattva Son

with the emptiness of love and wisdom.

Combining into a perfected Buddha,

who can say that the Buddha does not live in you or he or she?

The fifth merit of this sutra

is that it can bestow the joy of compassion

and the propensity to make any practitioner

share the internal wealth of Buddhahood

with beggars and kings, alongside scholars and idiots.

The sixth merit of this sutra

is that it will close the gap

that exists between me and the world

since those who are devoted to these innumerable meanings

will preach as I am now doing.

Entrusted with a nation of bodhisattvas,

who else is there but me to interpret

and understand my own teachings and laws?

The seventh merit of this sutra

is that it will push everyone

in the direction of immediate enlightenment.

Perfected in the six perfections

by way of being empty,

the sons and daughters of the 

King and the Queen of the Dharma

will personally inherit the bodhisattva nation

as a gift of my charitable heart.

The eight merit of this sutra

is that it will make the mind pure enough

to convert even Buddhas.

Armed with a strong faith in the truth of emptiness,

anything can be accomplished since the Buddha

is the beginning and end of all accomplishments.

The ninth merit of this sutra

is that it will empower those who want to be empowered

into becoming the abode of omniscient mindfulness

and omnipresent compassion.

Simultaneously in all directions,

the mind of enlightenment spreads far and wide

for the benefit of every living being

who is caught in the trap of thinking

that they are worthless and without dignity.

The tenth merit of this sutra

is that it will provide enough medicine

for ordinary living beings to become more than extraordinary.

Uplifting ordinariness into emptiness

and emptiness into compassion,

the compassionate root of the Law

of Buddhahood

is a kind and clear mind that is free

of the desire to be free in relation to others

who are not free or who refuse to be so.

Protecting this sutra of innumerable meanings

as I would protect the Buddha nature,

the benefits and blessings of an infinite amount

of meditative retreats is now the property

of the newly formed Bodhisattva Nation.

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                               (Awake to Buddhahood)