The shurangama mantra devanagari Shurangama Mantra devanagari | Page 260

【THE SHURANGAMA SUTRA _ EXTRACTION.】
production and destruction, but he
has not yet perfected the subtle
wonder of ultimate serenity. 8:264
profound wonder, he may take it to
be Nirvana and fail to make further
progress. If he interprets this as a
supreme state, he will fall and
become a fixed-nature Pratyeka.
Those Enlightened by Conditions and
Solitarily Enlightened Ones who do
not turn their minds to the Great
Vehicle will become his companions.
Confused about the Bodhi of the
Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge
and understanding. 8:267
”In his understanding of life, he
distinguishes the subtle and the
coarse and determines the true and
the false. But he only seeks a
response in the mutual repayment of
cause and effect, and he turns his
back on the Way of Purity. In the
practice of seeing suffering,
eliminating accumulation, realizing
cessation, and cultivating the Way, he
dwells in cessation and stops there,
making no further progress. If he
interprets this as a supreme state, he
will fall and become a fixed-nature
Hearer. Unlearned Sanghans and
those of overweening pride will
become his companions. Confused
about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he
will lose his knowledge and
understanding. 8:265
”This is the tenth state, in which he
realizes a profound brightness based
on fusing the mind with perfect
enlightenment. He strays far from
perfect penetration and turns his back
on the City of Nirvana, thus sowing
the seeds for being unable to surpass
his attachment to the brightness of
perfect enlightenment. 8:268
”Ananda, these ten states of dhyana
are due to crazy explanations on the
path of cultivation. Relying on them,
the cultivator becomes confused and
claims to have attained complete
realization before actually having
done so. All these states are the result
of interactions between the
consciousness skandha and his
mental efforts. 8:269
”This is the ninth state, in which he
aspires toward the fruition of
cessation, based on perfecting the
mind that seeks responses. He strays
far from perfect penetration and turns
his back on the City of Nirvana, thus
sowing the seeds for becoming
enmeshed in emptiness. 8:266
”Further, the good person has
thoroughly seen the formations
skandha as empty. He has ended
production and destruction, but he
has not yet perfected the subtle
wonder of ultimate serenity. 8:267
”Dull and confused living beings do
not evaluate themselves.
Encountering such situations, their
minds are confused by their
individual likings and past habits, so
they stop to rest in what they take to
be the ultimate refuge. They claim to
have perfected unsurpassed Bodhi,
thus uttering a great lie. After their
”In that perfectly fused, pure, bright
enlightenment, as he investigates the
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