The shurangama mantra devanagari Shurangama Mantra devanagari | Page 264

【THE SHURANGAMA SUTRA _ EXTRACTION.】
hearing, awareness, or knowing in
your body. If it is genuinely pure and
true, it should not contain habits or
falseness. 8:310
”Ananda, these five skandhas of
reception develop with five kinds of
false thinking. 8:314
”You also wanted to know the depth
and scope of each realm. Form and
emptiness are the boundaries of form.
Contact and separation are the
boundaries of feeling. Remembering
and forgetting are the boundaries of
thinking. Destruction and production
are the boundaries of formations.
Deep purity entering to unite with
deep purity belongs to the boundaries
of consciousness. 8:314
”How does it happen, then, that
having seen some unusual thing in
the past, you eventually forget it over
time, until neither memory nor
forgetfulness of it remain; but then
later, upon suddenly seeing that
unusual thing again, you remember it
clearly from before without
forgetting a single detail? How can
you keep track of the permeation that
goes on in thought after thought in
this pure, clear, and unmoving
consciousness? 8:311
”At their source, these five skandhas
arise in layers. Their arising is due to
consciousness, while their cessation
begins with the elimination of form.
8:315
”Ananda, you should know that this
state of clarity is not real. It is like
rapidly flowing water that appears to
be still on the surface. Due to its
speed you cannot perceive the flow,
but that does not mean it is not
flowing. If this were not the source of
thinking, then how could one be
subject to false habits? 8:312
”You may have a sudden awakening
to the principle, at which point they
all simultaneously vanish. But in
terms of the specifics, they are
eliminated not all at once, but in
sequence. 8:315
”If you do not open and unite your
six sense faculties so that they
function interchangeably, this false
thinking will never cease. 8:313
”I have already shown you the knots
tied in the Karpasa cloth. What is it
that you do not understand, that
causes you to ask about it again?
8:317
"That’s why your seeing, hearing,
awareness, and knowing are presently
strung together by subtle habits, so
that within the profound clarity,
existence and nonexistence are both
unreal. This is the fifth kind of
upside-down, minutely subtle
thinking. 8:313
”You should gain a thorough
understanding of the origin of this
false thinking and then transmit your
understanding to cultivators in the
future Dharma-ending Age. Let them
recognize this falseness and naturally
give rise to deep disdain for it. Let
them know of Nirvana so that they
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