原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
Reader's edition
含詞賦 With rhapsody
法力無邊 Power Without Bound
正是:正是:
一句能通遍沙界,廣大無邊法力深。一句能通遍沙界,广大无边法力深。
逐句解 Line by line
正是:
正是:
Truly it was:
正是 — the closing verse-tag.
一句能通遍沙界,廣大無邊法力深。
一句能通遍沙界,广大无边法力深。
A single word can reach through sand-grain worlds; / vast and boundless, deep is the power of the Law.
遍沙界 — pervading worlds numberless as the sands of the Ganges. The couplet seals the chapter on the Dharma's boundless reach.
The single couplet that seals the chapter states its theme plainly: a single word can reach through sand-grain worlds; vast and boundless, deep is the power of the Law. It gathers the whole arc — the vase that held a sea, the flood that made a paradise, the fillet that tamed a demon — into one assertion of the Dharma's boundless reach, where a mere syllable accomplishes what armies and fire could not. After the long comedy and the violence, the verse restores the register of the sacred: the Bodhisattva's power is not spectacle but the deep, quiet omnipotence of the Law.