Then they pulled back their tongues, coughed at the same time, and snapped their fingers. These two sounds [of coughing and snapping] reverberated over the Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters, and the ground of those worlds quaked in the six ways.

Earlier it is shown that their tongues emitted rays of light, with the implication that their speeches were not false; wisdom illuminates [all] without leaving anything [in the dark]. [The Buddha’s] Path (Tao) being such, it is clear therefrom that li spread down to the golden mean. That li spread down to the golden mean finds expression in cough. Yet the voice reaching down to the golden mean must have a reason when it is mentioned, again finding expression in snapping fingers. li has been propagated all over under the heaven; hence, the statement, “These two sounds reached throughout [the world-spheres of the Buddhas] in all ten quarters.” Living beings in ten quarters began to sense their [innate] endowment o! enlightenment: thus “[the earth] trembles in six different ways.”