The Surangama Sutra

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Translator......Page 2
Preface......Page 12
The Surangama Sutra......Page 20
The Noumenon in the Tathagata Store......Page 21
Ananda’s Weakness — The Reason for this Sermon......Page 22
Meditative Study of All as Void (Samatha)......Page 23
Wiping Out the Five Aggregates & Eight Consciousnesses to Expose the Unreality of Ego......Page 24
Revealing the Bright Samadhi......Page 35
Origin of Inversion......Page 36
Thinking is unreal......Page 38
The sixth consciousness is empty......Page 39
The seventh consciousness is unreal......Page 40
The Inverted Perception......Page 42
Returning perception to Mind......Page 43
Inverted Men......Page 45
The worlding's inverted views......Page 46
The Hinayanist’s inverted views......Page 47
The heretics’ inverted view of annihilation......Page 49
The inverted behaviour......Page 52
Delusion and Enlightenment are of the same source......Page 53
Unreality of illusory causes......Page 56
Falseness of both sense organs and consciousness......Page 57
Borrowing The Essence Of Perception To Pick Out Causal Externals......Page 58
Picking out causal externals......Page 59
The (Underlying) Nature of Perception is Not the Essence of Perception......Page 60
Picking out causal objects......Page 61
Refuting this misconception......Page 62
The capacity of seeing......Page 63
Revealing the Real......Page 64
Eradicating Attachment to the Ego to Reveal the One Reality......Page 65
Misconception of objects BEING perception......Page 66
Misconception of objects NOT BEING perception......Page 67
Manjusri’s Helpful Interposition......Page 69
Rooting out the self as such......Page 71
Revealing the essential Bodhi......Page 72
Wiping Out Ananda’s Discrimination......Page 73
Revealing the Inceptive Bodhi......Page 74
Individual Karma......Page 77
Collective Karma......Page 78
Revealing the Independent Basic Bodhi to Expose the Unfettered Absoluteness (Bhutatathata)......Page 80
Wiping Out All Traces of the False to Enter the Abstruse to Reveal the Bhutatathatà......Page 81
Direct Pointing to the One Mind......Page 83
The First Aggregate Rupa......Page 84
The Second Aggregate Vedana......Page 85
The Third Aggregate Sanjna......Page 86
The Fifth Aggregate Vinana......Page 87
Entrance through the Eyes......Page 88
Entrance through the Ears......Page 89
Entrance through the Tongue......Page 90
Entrance through the Body......Page 91
Entrance through the Intellect......Page 92
Eyes & Form......Page 93
Ears & Sound......Page 94
Nose & Smell......Page 95
Body & Touch......Page 96
Intellect & Dharma......Page 97
The Field of Sight-Perception......Page 98
The Field of Sound-Perception......Page 99
The Field of Smell-Perception......Page 100
The Field of Taste-Perception......Page 102
The Field of Touch-Perception......Page 103
The Field of the Sixth Consciousness......Page 104
Fusing the Seven Elements into the Absolute to Reveal the Free Intermingling of Phenomenon & Noum.........Page 105
Pointing to the One Source......Page 106
The element of earth......Page 107
The element of fire......Page 108
The element of water......Page 109
The element of wind......Page 111
The element of space......Page 112
The element of perception......Page 114
The element of consciousness......Page 116
Ananda’s Understanding Expressed in his Gatha......Page 119
The One Mind Being the Source of Both Delusion & Enlightenment......Page 121
The Real Missed by Cognizance of the False......Page 123
The Six Coarser Conditions of Unenlightenment......Page 124
Continuity of the (physical) universe......Page 125
Continuity of living beings......Page 126
Continuity of karmic retribution......Page 128
The Uncreated & Unending......Page 129
The Unhindered Intermingling of Noumenon & Phenomenon......Page 130
Expounding the Common Source of Delusion & Enlightenment to Sum Up the Intermingling of Phenomeno.........Page 132
Elimination of ‘is’ to reveal the Trite Mind......Page 134
Simultaneous elimination of ‘is’ & ‘is not’ to reveal the Absolute Mind......Page 135
The One Mind, Sudden Awakening & Realization......Page 136
Objects Contemplated in Meditative Studies......Page 143
The objective phenomena in the meditation......Page 144
Looking into the roots of klesa to find the sense organ suitable for meditation......Page 147
Expedient Instruction on the One Mind......Page 155
Main Instruction on the Three Meditative Studies of the One Mind......Page 159
How to Untie the Six Knots......Page 163
Meditation on the six sense data......Page 168
Meditation on the five sense organs......Page 172
Meditation on the six consciousnesses......Page 175
Meditation on the seven elements......Page 180
Meditation on the organ of hearing......Page 188
Manjusri’s Gatha Teaching the Appropriate Method for Human Beings......Page 200
The Enlightenment of Others......Page 210
Prohibition against carnality......Page 211
Prohibition against killing......Page 212
Prohibition against stealing......Page 214
Prohibition against lying......Page 217
Bodhisattva Development into Buddhahood......Page 219
The Origin of Living Beings & the World......Page 220
The Inverted Cause of the Existence of the World......Page 221
The Twelve Groups of Living Beings......Page 222
The Three Gradual Steps to Wipe Out Samsara......Page 226
The Ten Stages of Bodhisattva Faith......Page 229
The Ten Practical Stages of Bodhisattva Wisdom......Page 231
The Ten Lines of Bodhisattva Action......Page 233
The Ten Acts of Dedication (Parinamana)......Page 234
The Four Additional Harnessing Stages (Prayoga)......Page 236
The Ten Highest Stages of Bodhisattva Attainment (Dasabhumi)......Page 237
The Universal Enlightenment......Page 238
The Titles of this Sutra......Page 239
The Six States of Living Beings in Samsara......Page 241
The realm of seers (rsi) and spirits......Page 244
The realm of hells......Page 245
The habit of sexual desire......Page 246
The habit of anger......Page 247
The habit of lying......Page 248
The habit of wrong views......Page 249
The habit of disputation......Page 250
Retributive effects of wrong hearing......Page 251
Retributive effects of wrong smelling......Page 252
Retributive effects of wrong touching......Page 253
Retributive effects of wrong thinking......Page 254
The Ten Categories in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts......Page 255
The Ten Categories of Animals (Birds, etc.)......Page 257
The Ten Categories in the Realm of Human Beings......Page 259
The Ten Categories in the Realm of Seers (Rsis)......Page 260
The Six Heavens of the Realm of Desire (Kamadhatu)......Page 262
The first region of the three dhyana heavens......Page 264
The third region of the three dhyana heavens......Page 265
The fourth region of the four dhyana heavens......Page 266
The five heavens from which there is no return......Page 267
The four heavens beyond form......Page 269
The Anagamin stage......Page 270
The Four Classes in the Realm of Titans (Asura-gati)......Page 271
States of Mara Caused by the Five Aggregates......Page 274
The Ten States Affected by the First Aggregate of Form (Rupa)......Page 277
The Ten States Affected by the Second Aggregate of Receptiveness (Vedana)......Page 281
The Ten States Affected by the Third Aggregate of Conception (Sanjna)......Page 288
The Ten States Affected by the Fourth Aggregate of Discrimination (Samskara)......Page 301
The Ten States Affected by the Fifth Aggregate of Consciousness (Vijnana)......Page 313
The Falsehood of the Five Aggregates......Page 322
Falseness of the first aggregate of form (rupa)......Page 323
Falseness of the fourth aggregate of discrimination (samskara)......Page 324
Falseness of the fifth aggregate of consciousness (vijnàna)......Page 325
Glossary......Page 328