“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want by uttering a single sound to instruct as many world systems in the eastern direction as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River should train in the perfection of wisdom. Similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want by uttering a single sound to instruct as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in each of the southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern directions, and below and above, should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to ensure that the line of buddhas will be unbroken should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to stand in inner emptiness should train in the perfection of wisdom. Similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want to stand in outer emptiness, inner and outer emptiness, the emptiness of emptiness, great emptiness, the emptiness of ultimate reality, the emptiness of the compounded, the emptiness of the uncompounded, the emptiness of what transcends limits, the emptiness of no beginning and no end, the emptiness of nonrepudiation, the emptiness of a basic nature, the emptiness of all dharmas, the emptiness of its own mark, the emptiness of not apprehending, the emptiness of a nonexistent thing, the emptiness of an intrinsic nature, and the emptiness that is the nonexistence of an intrinsic nature should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to comprehend the suchness of all dharmas, the suchness of the dharma-constituent, and the suchness of the very limit of reality should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to know how many tiny particles of earth there are in the great billionfold world system; who want to know the tiny particles of water in the oceans, torrents, lakes, ponds, wells, and rivulets; who want to know the tiny particles of fire; and who want to know the tiny particles of wind in all the world systems in the great billionfold world system should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to blow out with one puff of breath the fire in the great billionfold world system when the eon is burning up should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to blunt with the tip of one finger the force of the whirling, shaking circle of wind as it is circulating in the great billionfold world system, rocking, scattering, and pervasively shaking every mountain and the entire earth starting with the axial mountain Sumeru, the great Sumeru, the encircling mountain ranges, and the great encircling mountain ranges should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings thinking, ‘I should toss immeasurable world systems by bundling up every mountain there is in the great billionfold world system—the axial mountain Sumeru, the great Sumeru, the encircling mountain ranges, the great encircling mountain ranges, and so on—with a single strand of hair,’ should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want their single cross-legged posture to expand into and fill up the space of the great billionfold world system in its entirety should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want with a single begging bowl to distribute food to each of the lord buddhas, together with their śrāvaka saṅghas, in as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River to the east should train in the perfection of wisdom; and similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want to respect, want to revere, want to honor, and want to worship those tathāgatas, worthy ones, perfectly complete buddhas with clouds of flowers, incense, perfumes, garlands of flowers, creams, aromatic powders, clothes, parasols, flags, and banners should train in the perfection of wisdom.


Similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want with a single alms bowl to distribute food to each of the lord buddhas, together with their śrāvaka saṅghas, in each of as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River to the south, west, and north, in the intermediate directions to the northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, and below and above, and similarly want to respect, want to revere, want to honor, and want to worship with clouds of flowers, incense, perfumes, garlands of flowers, creams, aromatic powders, clothes, parasols, flags, and streamers those tathāgatas, worthy ones, perfectly complete buddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to establish beings in as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River to the east in the aggregate of morality; who want to establish them in the aggregate of meditative stabilization, in the aggregate of wisdom, in the aggregate of liberation, and in the aggregate of knowledge and seeing of liberation; and similarly want to establish them in the result of stream enterer, once-returner, and non-returner, in the state of a worthy one, in a pratyekabuddha’s awakening, up to in the element of nirvāṇa without any aggregates left behind should train in the perfection of wisdom. As with the east, also connect this with as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in the south, west, and north, in the intermediate directions to the northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, and below and above.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should know, when giving a gift, that having given such a gift there is a great result: having given such a gift, they will be born in great sāla tree–like royal families, and similarly in great sāla tree–like brahmin families, and in great sāla tree–like business families; having given such a gift they will be born among the Cāturmahārājika gods, and similarly, born among the gods of Trāyastriṃśa, Yāma, Tuṣita, and Nirmāṇarati; having given such a gift, they will reach the first concentration, and similarly reach the second concentration and the third concentration; having given such a gift they will reach the fourth concentration; having given such a gift they will reach the station of the nonperception absorption; having given such a gift they will reach the station of the endless-space absorption, and similarly, having given such a gift, they will reach the station of endless consciousness and the station of the nothing-at-all absorption; having given such a gift they will reach the station of the neither perception nor nonperception absorption; and having given such a gift they will acquire the thirty-seven dharmas on the side of awakening, and similarly they will reach the result of stream enterer, and reach the result of once-returner, the result of non-returner, and the state of a worthy one.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should know that a gift thus given with skillful means completes the perfection of giving, and similarly completes the perfection of morality, the perfection of patience, the perfection of perseverance, the perfection of concentration, and the perfection of wisdom.”


The Lord having spoken thus, venerable Śāriputra then inquired of him, “How, Lord, does the perfection of giving become complete when bodhisattva great beings are giving a gift? How do the perfection of morality, the perfection of patience, the perfection of perseverance, the perfection of concentration, and the perfection of wisdom become complete when bodhisattva great beings are giving a gift?”


Venerable Śāriputra having thus inquired, the Lord said to him, “Śāriputra, the perfection of giving is completed by way of the purity of the three spheres, not apprehending a gift, giver, or recipient; the perfection of morality is completed because no downfall is incurred and no compounded downfall is incurred; the perfection of patience is completed because of not being disturbed; the perfection of perseverance is completed because of not expending physical or mental effort; the perfection of concentration is completed because of not being distracted and not constructing any ideas; and the perfection of wisdom is completed by way of not apprehending the knowledge of all dharmas. Thus, Śāriputra, when bodhisattvas give a gift like that, the six perfections are completed.


Similarly all six perfections are completed in the perfection of morality, and similarly all six perfections are completed in the perfection of patience, the perfection of perseverance, the perfection of concentration, and the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to acquire all the buddha qualities of the past, future, and present lord buddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to transcend all compounded and uncompounded phenomena should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to comprehend the suchness of all past, future, and present dharmas, and similarly, who want to reach the dharma-constituent, the limit of the absence of production, should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to be foremost among śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to be attendants of the lord buddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to be in the inner circle of the lord buddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to be in the inner retinue of the lord buddhas should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to have a large retinue should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to purify a donation should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to stop miserly thoughts should train in the perfection of wisdom, and similarly, those who want to prevent immoral thoughts from arising, who want to prevent malicious thoughts from arising, who want to quit having lazy thoughts, who want to quit having distracted thoughts, and who want to quit having confused thoughts should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to establish all beings in the bases of meritorious action arisen from giving, and who want to establish all beings in the bases of meritorious action arisen from morality, arisen from meditation, that accompany service, and arisen from material things should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to produce the five eyes should train in the perfection of wisdom. And what are the five eyes? They are the flesh eye, divine eye, wisdom eye, dharma eye, and buddha eye. If they want to produce them, they should train in the perfection of wisdom. Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to see with their divine eye as many buddhas and lords as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River to the east should train in the perfection of wisdom, and similarly, if they want to see with their divine eye as many buddhas and lords as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in the south, west, and north, in the intermediate directions to the northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest, and below and above they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


If they want to hear with their divine ear the doctrine those buddhas and lords explain they should train in the perfection of wisdom, and if they want to comprehend with their mind the thought of those buddhas and lords exactly as it is they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to hear the entire doctrine that the lord buddhas in all world systems in all ten directions explain, and having heard it take it up perfectly by applying the power of memory uninterruptedly, and who do not want any to be lost up until they awaken to unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to see the buddhafields of past buddhas and lords, and of future buddhas and lords as well, and who want to see the buddhafields of present buddhas and lords now dwelling and maintaining themselves in world systems in all ten directions should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to master all that the tathāgatas have taught in discourses, melodious narrations, predictions, verses, summaries, introductions, accounts, birth stories, expanded texts, marvels, tales, and expositions, and what has not been heard by śrāvakas or pratyekabuddhas, should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to take up all that the lord buddhas in the eastern direction have said, are saying, and will say, who want to bear it in mind, who want to read it aloud, and similarly who want to practice it and want to elaborate upon it in detail for others, should train in the perfection of wisdom. Similarly, if they want to take up all that the lord buddhas in the southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern directions, below and above, have said, are saying, and will say, want to bear it in mind, want to read it aloud, and similarly want to practice it and want to elaborate upon it in detail for others, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to shine down on the blinding darkness where the sun and moon do not shine, in as many world systems in the eastern direction as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River, should train in the perfection of wisdom. Similarly, if they want to shine light down on the blinding darkness where the sun and moon do not shine, in as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in the southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern directions, below and above, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to proclaim to all the beings born in various buddhafields in as many world systems in the eastern direction as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River the word Buddha, the word Dharma, and the word Saṅgha, and who want to establish them in right view, should train in the perfection of wisdom. Similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want to proclaim the words Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha and establish in right view beings in as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in the southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern directions, below and above, where there is no sound of the words Buddha, Dharma, Saṅgha, or right view, should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want beings who are blind, in as many world systems in the eastern direction as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River, to see shapes with their eyes through their might should train in the perfection of wisdom.


Similarly, thinking, ‘May those who are deaf hear sounds with their ears, those who have gone mad regain their senses, the naked be clothed, hungry beings have their fill, the thirsty quench their thirst, beings who are stuck in terrible forms of life be freed from all the terrible forms of life and gain birth as humans, and may I establish the immoral in the aggregate of morality’; and similarly, thinking, ‘May I establish those who are not stabilized in meditation in the aggregate of meditative stabilization, in the aggregate of wisdom, in the aggregate of liberation, and in the aggregate of knowledge and seeing of liberation’; and thinking, ‘May I establish those who do not see the truths in the result of stream enterer’; and thinking, ‘May I establish them in the result of once-returner, the result of non-returner, the state of a worthy one, in a pratyekabuddha’s awakening, and in unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening,’ they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Similarly, bodhisattva great beings who want beings who are blind, in as many world systems as there are sand particles in the Gaṅgā River in the southern, western, northern, northeastern, southeastern, southwestern, and northwestern directions, below and above, to see shapes with their eyes through their might should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings who want to train in the tathāgatas’ way of carrying themselves should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should contemplate like this: ‘When, oh when, will I look down as an elephant looks? How will it come to be that I will walk on the earth without my feet touching it by the measure of four fingers?’ Thinking thus, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should contemplate like this as well: ‘How will it come to be that I, surrounded by and at the head of many hundred thousand one hundred million billion Cāturmahārājika gods, and Trāyastriṃśa, Yāma, Tuṣita, Nirmāṇarati, Paranirmitavaśavartin, Brahmapurohita, Brahmakāyika, Brahmapārṣadya, Parīttābha, Apramāṇābha, Ābhāsvara, Parīttaśubha, Apramāṇaśubha, Śubhakṛtsna, Bṛhatphala, Śuddhāvāsa, Sudṛśa, Sudarśana, Avṛha, Atapa, and Akaniṣṭha gods, go forth to the site of awakening?’ Thinking thus, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should contemplate like this as well: ‘How will it come to be that the Cāturmahārājika gods, up to the Akaniṣṭha class, spread out my seat at the root of the tree at the site of awakening?’ Thinking thus, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should contemplate like this as well: ‘How will it come to be that this region of the earth on which I will fully awaken to unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening, and walk, stand, sit, or lie down, become all diamond?’ Thinking thus, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.


“Moreover, Śāriputra, bodhisattva great beings practicing the perfection of wisdom should contemplate like this as well: ‘How will it come to be that on that very day that I go forth I will fully awaken, on that very day, to unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening, and, having fully awakened on that very day, that I will turn the wheel of the Dharma so that, having turned it, dust-free and stainless, the Dharma eye of countless beings beyond measure will become clear about the dharmas, countless beings beyond measure will stop appropriating anything and their minds will become freed from outflows, and countless beings beyond measure will not turn back from unsurpassed, perfect, complete awakening?’ Thinking thus, they should train in the perfection of wisdom.