The ten Equalities

From the Dasabhumikasutra

A thousand goddesses in the sky sang pleasantly and played music, singing as with one voice
in praise of the Buddha, destroyer of the fire of afflictions:

Empty nature quiescent, all things are signless,

Equal to space, beyond discriminating thought, totally pure;
Beyond motion or stillness, beyond philosophy, all equal in suchness,
By their suchness, the essence of things is beyond thought.

Those who understand all things thus

Are unmoved by existence or nonexistence:
With compassion for the world, striving for liberation,
They are offspring of Buddha, born from the Teaching.

They practice generosity without concern for appearances,

With well-disciplined minds, fundamentally tranquil, extremely calm:
They tolerate what is made in the world, knowing the imperishable truth;
They are endowed with vigor and strength, detached from all things.

Having fully entered into meditation, exhausted afflictions, they are purified;
Knowing all things, they are centered in primordial emptiness.
Rich in knowledge and practical power, they are always devoted to the welfare of the
world,
For they are great beings, offspring of Buddha, having extinguished all evil.

Having uttered a thousand such songs, those beautiful goddesses hovered in the sky silently
gazing at the Buddha, serene, enraptured with admiration for the Teaching. Moon of Liberation
said, continuing, to Diamond Matrix, "What are the characteristics of attainment of the next
stage after this fifth one?"
The enlightening being Diamond Matrix said, "Those who thoroughly fulfilled the path
of the fifth stage of enlightening beings enter into the sixth stage. They enter by way of ten
equalities of things by the equality of signlessness of all things; by the equality of
nonorigination of all things; by the equality of absence of characteristic marks of all things; by
the equality of nonbirth of all things; by the equality of detachment of all things; by the equality
of primordial purity things; by the equality of nonconceptuality of all things; by the equality of
all things in neither coming nor going; by the equality of all things in being like illusions,
dreams, reflections, echoes, the moon's image in the water, or apparitions; and by the equality
of nonduality of existence nonexistence of all things. Thus observing all things in terms of
intrinsic nature and according with it without opposition, they attain sixth stage of enlightening
beings, the stage of Presence. But this is by penetrating conformative tolerance; they have not
yet attained tolerance of the nonorigination of things.

Thomas Cleary, The Flower Ornament Scripture, pp. 743-744

 The ten Equalities
From the Dasabhumikasutra

A thousand devis in the sky sang pleasantly and played music, singing as with one voice in
praise of the Buddha, destroyer of the fire of the kleshas:

Empty nature quiescent, all things are signless,

Equal to space, beyond discriminating thought, totally pure;
Beyond motion or stillness, beyond philosophy, all equal in suchness,
By their suchness, the essence of things is beyond thought.

Those who understand all things thus

Are unmoved by existence or nonexistence:
With compassion for the world, striving for liberation,
They are offspring of Buddha, born from the dharma.

They practice generosity without concern for appearances,

With well-disciplined minds, fundamentally tranquil, extremely calm:
They tolerate what is made in the world, knowing the imperishable truth;
They are endowed with vigor and strength, detached from all things.

Having fully entered into meditation, exhausted afflictions, they are purified;
Knowing all things, they are centered in primordial emptiness.
Rich in knowledge and practical power, they are always devoted to the welfare of the
world,
For they are great beings, descendants of the Buddha, having extinguished all evil.

Having uttered a thousand such songs, those beautiful goddesses hovered in the sky silently
gazing at the Buddha, serene, enraptured with admiration for the Teaching. Moon of Liberation
said, continuing, to Vajragarbha, "What are the characteristics of attainment of the next bhumi
after this fifth one?"
The bodhisattva Vajragarbha said, "Those who thoroughly fulfilled the path of the fifth
bhumi of a bodhisattva enter into the sixth bhumi. They enter by way of ten equalities of things;
by the equality of signlessness of all things; by the equality of nonorigination of all things; by
the equality of absence of characteristic marks of all things; by the equality of nonbirth of all
things; by the equality of detachment of all things; by the equality of primordial purity of all
things; by the equality of nonconceptuality of all things; by the equality of all things in neither
coming nor going; by the equality of all things in being like illusions, dreams, reflections,
echoes, the moon's image in the water, or apparitions; and by the equality of nonduality of
existence nonexistence of all things. Thus observing all things in terms of intrinsic nature and
according with it without opposition, they attain the sixth bhumi of a bodhisattva, the bhumi of
Presence. But this is by penetrating conformative tolerance; they have not yet attained tolerance
of the nonorigination of things.

Adapted from: Thomas Cleary, The Flower Ornament Scripture, pp. 743-744