The shurangama mantra devanagari Shurangama Mantra devanagari | Page 262

【THE SHURANGAMA SUTRA _ EXTRACTION.】
who fail to recognize the importance
of dhyana, or who have not heard the
Dharma spoken, you should be
concerned lest they get caught up in
deviant ways. You should single-
mindedly exhort them to uphold the
Dharani Mantra of the Buddha’s
Summit. If they cannot recite it from
memory, they should have it written
out and place it in the meditation hall
or wear it on their person. Then none
of the demons will be able to disturb
them. 8:284 illuminate the minds of those in the
great assembly, and in order to serve
as eyes for living beings of the
future.” 8:289
”You should revere this final
paradigm of ultimate cultivation and
progress of the Tathagatas of the ten
directions.” 8:286 ”The source of basic enlightenment,
which is wonderfully bright, true, and
pure, falsely gives rise to the material
world, just as Yajnadatta became
confused about his head when he saw
his own reflection. 8:292
The Buddha told Ananda, “The
essential, true, wonderful brightness
and perfect purity of basic
enlightenment does not admit birth
and death, nor any mundane
defilements, nor even empty space
itself. All these are brought forth
because of false thinking. 8:290
Ananda then arose from his seat.
Having heard the Buddha’s
instruction, he bowed and
respectfully upheld it, remembering
every word and forgetting none. Then
once more in the great assembly he
spoke to the Buddha, “The Buddha
has told us that in the manifestation
of the five skandhas, there are five
kinds of falseness that come from our
own thinking minds. We have never
before been blessed with such subtle
and wonderful instructions as the
Tathagata has now given. 8:287
”The falseness basically has no
cause, but in your false thinking, you
set up causes and conditions. But
those who are confused about the
principle of causes and conditions
call it spontaneity. Even empty space
is an illusory creation; how much the
more so are causes and conditions
and spontaneity, which are mere
speculations made by the false minds
of living beings. 8:295
”Ananda, if you perceive the arising
of falseness, you can speak of the
causes and conditions of that
falseness. But if the falseness has no
source, you will have to say that the
causes and conditions of that
falseness basically have no source.
How much the more is this the case
for those who fail to understand this
and advocate spontaneity. 8:297
”Further, are these five skandhas
destroyed all at the same time, or are
they extinguished in sequence? What
are the boundaries of these five
layers? 8:289
”We only hope the Tathagata, out of
great compassion, will explain this in
order to purify the eyes and
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