སངས་རྒྱས་བྱུང་བ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ་དང་། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་རེ་རེས་ཆོས་བསྟན་ཅིང་བརྗོད་པ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ་ཡང་གོང་མ་བཞིན་དུ་སྦྱར་རོ། ། སེམས་ཅན་ཇི་སྙེད་ཅིག་ཉན་ཐོས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པས་བཏུལ་བ་དང་། ཇི་སྙེད་ཅིག་རང་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཐེག་པས་བཏུལ་བ་ཡང་གོང་མ་བཞིན་དུ་སྦྱར་ཏེ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཞིང་རྣམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཡང་རབ་ཏུ་མཁྱེན་ཏོ། ། དགེ་སློང་གི་དགེ་འདུན་རྣམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་དང་། ཚེའི་ཚད་རྣམ་པར་ཕྱེ་བ་ཡང་རབ་ཏུ་མཁྱེན་ཏོ། །
“Moreover, Śāriputra, the Tathāgata’s vision of knowledge has unimpeded and unobstructed access to the past. How does it have this unimpeded access? Śāriputra, whatever may or may not have occurred in the past, the Tathāgata knows these buddha fields and is able to recount them. Whatever may have occurred within these buddha fields, manifesting as grass, bushes, herbs, and woods, he is aware of it all. Whatever may have occurred within these buddha fields, manifesting as the bodies of sentient beings and labeled as sentient beings, he is aware of it all. Whatever may have occurred within the buddha fields of various kinds of beings, in various forms, he is aware of it all. However many buddhas may have appeared, however many teachings on the Dharma each of these tathāgatas may have delivered, he is aware of them all. However many beings may have gone through the training of the Śrāvakayāna, and however many may have gone through the training of the Pratyekabuddhayāna, he is aware of them all. He has detailed knowledge of the buddha fields. He has detailed knowledge of the community of mendicants. He has detailed knowledge of the lifespans of sentient beings, and he has detailed knowledge of the bases of phenomena. He understands the process of inhalation and exhalation. He understands the pleasures of enjoying good food. The Tathāgata knows the processes of death and rebirth of every being in the past. He knows their various abilities, their various forms of conduct, and their various inclinations. He knows their mental continua. He knows and is able to recount the states of mind that are continuous and the states of mind that arise. His knowledge stems from direct perception and from inference. One cannot find any mental patterns governed by the past in the Tathāgata. Such is the knowledge with which the Tathāgata teaches the Dharma faultlessly, adjusted to the inclinations of sentient beings. This, Śāriputra, [MS.52.a] is the sixteenth of the Tathāgata’s unique buddha qualities.
Light, Reality, Assembly