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May 11, 2023 16:30:14 GMT
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Post by reden on May 11, 2023 16:30:14 GMT
"...the shortest sutra consists of just one letter, which is my personal favorite. It starts with the usual introduction, “Once the Buddha was dwelling in Rajagriha at Vulture Flock Mountain” and so on, and then he said, “A.” It ends with all the gods and so on rejoicing, and that’s it. It is said that there are people who actually realize the meaning of the Prajnaparamita Sutras through just hearing or reading “A.”
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Post by AnthroHeart on May 11, 2023 19:50:34 GMT
"...the shortest sutra consists of just one letter, which is my personal favorite. It starts with the usual introduction, “Once the Buddha was dwelling in Rajagriha at Vulture Flock Mountain” and so on, and then he said, “A.” It ends with all the gods and so on rejoicing, and that’s it. It is said that there are people who actually realize the meaning of the Prajnaparamita Sutras through just hearing or reading “A.” You asked me to run A in repeater before. Was this the reason? |
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May 12, 2023 0:26:14 GMT
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Post by reden on May 12, 2023 0:26:14 GMT
No, that was because A is just one letter, just like B or C or any, so it brings the fastest Repeater performance for a file.
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Jul 28, 2023 6:02:36 GMT
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Post by reden on Jul 28, 2023 6:02:36 GMT
"Tara is one of the most celebrated goddesses in the Buddhist world, representing enlightened activity in the form of the divine feminine. She protects, nurtures, and helps practitioners on the path to enlightenment. Manifesting in many forms and in many colors to help beings, Tara's red form represents her powers of magnetization, subjugation, and the transformation of desire into enlightened activity. Red Tara has gained popularity in recent years with practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide. She is considered to be particularly powerful in times of plague and disharmony." youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7cM1b5Xyc Invincible Red Tara Mantra to Banish Evil Spirits and Evil Magic "Rakt Varn Karini, Mund-Mukut-Dharini, Trilochne Shiv-Priye, Bhoot-Sangh Viharini, BhaalChandrike Vaame, Rakt Tarini Pare, Par Tantr-Mantr Nashini, pretOchattan Karini, Namo Kaalagni Roopini, Grah Santaap Harini, Akshobhya-Priye Ture, Panchkapaal Dharini, Namo Tare Namo Tare, Shri Rakt Taare Namo, Shri Rakt Taare Namo. . Om streem streem streem ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram rakttaraya ham ham ham ham ham ghore Aghore Vaame kham kham kham kham kham Kharpare sam sam sam sam sam Sakal Tantrani Shoshaya-Shoshaya Sar sar sar sar sar Bhootadi Naashaya Naashaya Streem Hum Phat." Claude 3 Opus: "रक्त वर्ण करिणी, मुण्ड-मुकुट-धारिणी, त्रिलोचने शिव-प्रिये, भूत-संघ विहारिणी, भालचन्द्रिके वामे, रक्त तारिणी परे, पर तन्त्र-मन्त्र नाशिनी, प्रेतोछत्तन करिणी, नमो कालाग्नि रूपिणी, ग्रह सन्ताप हरिणी, अक्षोभ्य-प्रिये तुरे, पञ्चकपाल धारिणी, नमो तारे नमो तारे, श्री रक्त तारे नमो, श्री रक्त तारे नमो॥ ॐ स्त्रीं स्त्रीं स्त्रीं रं रं रं रं रं रं रं रं रक्त्तरय हं हं हं हं हं घोरे अघोरे वामे खं खं खं खं खं खर्परे सं सं सं सं सं सकल तन्त्राणि शोषय-शोषय सर् सर् सर् सर् सर् भूतादि नाशय नाशय स्त्रीं हुं फट्॥" |
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Jul 28, 2023 7:17:09 GMT
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Post by reden on Jul 28, 2023 7:17:09 GMT
Mañjushri (long i, so Mañjushrii) is a Bodhisattva. His name means "Gentle Glory" in Sanskrit. He is one of the "Eight Great Bodhisattvas" who were the Buddha's closest disciples. In this way, sometimes he appears with a whitish green colour, and holds a lily to symbolize the renouncing to destructive emotions. He also represents the incarnation of knowledge and wisdom of all Buddhas, traditionally shown with a flaming sword that cuts through ignorance and misery in his right hand and a book "The Perfection of Wisdom" in his left hand, "that represents both the source and the incarnation of his awake comphrehension". youtube.com/watch?v=uKcCsi7LhisHis mantra is "Om A Ra Pa Ca Na Dhih" which means:OM Mystic syllable, considered the most sacred mantraA leads to the insight that the essence of all things is unproduced.RA leads to the insight that all things are pure and free of defilements.PA leads to the insight that all dharmas have been “expounded in the ultimate sense.”CA leads to the insight that the arising and ceasing of things cannot be apprehended because in reality there is no arising or ceasing.NA leads to the insight that although the names for things change the nature of things behind their names cannot be gained or lost.DHIH Reflection, meditation, devotion, prayer; understanding, intelligence, wisdomRepeating it a lot is said to bring vast benefits, such as:
Upon reciting it once, the obscurings that obstruct the surging of enlightened qualities will be slightly purified and will be involved in the four nearby applications of the full attention.
Upon reciting it seven times, they will obtain the capability to retain the Dharma precisely as they've heard it "which is the direct cause of the development of enlightened qualities."
Upon reciting it twenty one times, they will develop a valiant eloquency: the intelligence without obstacles that is the context of enlightened qualities, and in that way, they will apply the diligence of the four right efforts.
With a hundred recitations, so that their qualities can be completed, they will obtain the power of total recall, such that any learning and valiant eloquence they've already gained will never be lost, and they will achieve the samādhi of the four miraculous members.
Through a thousand recitations, they will obtain, in function of their enlightened qualities, the power of wisdom that allows one to defeat opponents in debate.
As such -it continues-, if you can recite more than a thousand repetitions, you will obtain the force of wisdom, moment in which your wisdom will be able of resisting the challenges of opponents and any other circumstance. This serves to illustrate that you will obtain the uncommensurable qualities of the roads/ways of training, as well as the other powers and strengths (it's to say, faith, etc.), the seven branches of enlightenment and the Noble Eightfold Path, as well as the qualities on the way.
Somebody whose mental flow has been purified through faith, diligence and the double bodhichitta [Union of Compassion and Wisdom], who recites the prayer three times a day through their lives, shalh obtain all the previously mentioned qualities. [...]
>When he attains Buddhahood his name will be Universal Sight.Albeit I read that his name would be Samantadarsin, "Appearing Universally"More information about him (which may or may not be honestly relevant):
"Then, in the assembly, uncalculable hundreds of thousands of thousands of millions of thousands of Bodhisattvas said in unison: "He who listens to Samantadarsin's name in Buddha shall obtain excellent benefices [...] If a person has an opportunity to listen to the "The prediction of the achievement of the Buddhahood of Mañjushri" doctrine explained, and Mañjushri's name mentioned, he finds himself face to face with all Buddhas.
The Buddha said to those bodhisattvas:
"It is so, it is so, just as you say. Good men, let us suppose that a person has in mind hundreds of thousands of thousands of millions of names of Buddhas. And suppose that another person has in mind the Bodhisattva Mañjushri's name. The latter's blessings surpass in number the first's, and certainly still more so those who have in mind the name of Samantadarsin in Buddha. Why? Because even the benefits of hundreds of thousands of thousands of millions from a myriad of Buddhas that are given to sentient beings cannot be compared with those that Mañjushri grants during a kalpa."
"It's said that having his name in mind conducts to an immense benefit, being equivalent to finding oneself 'face to face' with all the Buddhas [...] to remember Mañjushri's name is more benefitious than remembering Samantadarsin's."
"Meditating on his form and his teaching will conduct to seeing him and getting an idea. Additionally:
Those who can't see him must recite the Suramgama Sutra and say Mañjushri's name. In a period of between one and seven days, Mañjushri will come to them. If they're chained by their previous actions, they will see him in a dream. If those who see him in a dream are disciples ('sravaka') in that moment, then they will transform into "Entrants of the Current", once whether they return or not return as sole result of that vision. If they're religious errants ('pravrajita') and see Mañjushri, as soon as they see him, they will transform into Arhats in the space of one day and one night."
Arhats are "those who have gained the deep understanding about the true nature of existence, who have attained nirvana and in consequence, won't be reborn again."
Claude 3 Opus: ॐ अ र प च न धीः |
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Post by AnthroHeart on Jul 28, 2023 12:48:21 GMT
"Rakt Varn Karini, Mund-Mukut-Dharini, Trilochne Shiv-Priye, Bhoot-Sangh Viharini, BhaalChandrike Vaame, Rakt Tarini Pare, Par Tantr-Mantr Nashini, pretOchattan Karini, Namo Kaalagni Roopini, Grah Santaap Harini, Akshobhya-Priye Ture, Panchkapaal Dharini, Namo Tare Namo Tare, Shri Rakt Taare Namo, Shri Rakt Taare Namo. . Om streem streem streem ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram rakttaraya ham ham ham ham ham ghore Aghore Vaame kham kham kham kham kham Kharpare sam sam sam sam sam Sakal Tantrani Shoshaya-Shoshaya Sar sar sar sar sar Bhootadi Naashaya Naashaya Streem Hum Phat." Did you write that out so the Holo-Stones would act on it? Because I don't understand that language. |
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Jul 28, 2023 15:06:46 GMT
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Post by reden on Jul 28, 2023 15:06:46 GMT
"Rakt Varn Karini, Mund-Mukut-Dharini, Trilochne Shiv-Priye, Bhoot-Sangh Viharini, BhaalChandrike Vaame, Rakt Tarini Pare, Par Tantr-Mantr Nashini, pretOchattan Karini, Namo Kaalagni Roopini, Grah Santaap Harini, Akshobhya-Priye Ture, Panchkapaal Dharini, Namo Tare Namo Tare, Shri Rakt Taare Namo, Shri Rakt Taare Namo. . Om streem streem streem ram ram ram ram ram ram ram ram rakttaraya ham ham ham ham ham ghore Aghore Vaame kham kham kham kham kham Kharpare sam sam sam sam sam Sakal Tantrani Shoshaya-Shoshaya Sar sar sar sar sar Bhootadi Naashaya Naashaya Streem Hum Phat." Did you write that out so the Holo-Stones would act on it? Because I don't understand that language. I copied and pasted it so that people could recite it. Google translator could not translate it except for a bit "destroyer of ghosts". |
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Post by AnthroHeart on Jul 28, 2023 15:17:31 GMT
I'm surprised it wasn't in Sanskrit.
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Jul 28, 2023 16:01:03 GMT
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Post by reden on Jul 28, 2023 16:01:03 GMT
I'm surprised it wasn't in Sanskrit. It is. But google translate couldn't translate the complex words. |
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Aug 30, 2023 4:30:34 GMT
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Post by reden on Aug 30, 2023 4:30:34 GMT
Medicine Buddha Mantra:
"He is described as a doctor who cures suffering (Sanskrit: duḥkha) using the medicine of his teachings."
namo bhagavate bhaiśajyaguru vaidūryaprabharājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyaksambuddhāya tadyathā: oṃ bhaiśajye bhaiśajye bhaiśajya-samudgate svāhā.
The short form is:
(tadyathā) oṃ bhaiśajye bhaiśajye mahābhaiśajye bhaiśajyarāje samudgate svāhā.
“Bhaisajya” means “curativeness” or “healing efficacy,” while “guru” means “teacher” or “master.” Thus he’s the “master of healing.” He’s also known as Bhaisajyaraja, “raja” meaning “king.”
The short form of the mantra could roughly be translated as “Hail! Appear, O Healer, O Healer, O Great Healer, O King of Healing!” The optional “tadyathā” at the beginning means “thus,” and it’s not really part of the mantra, but more of an introduction.
The long version could be rendered as, “Homage to the Blessed One, The Master of Healing, The King of Lapis Lazuli Radiance, The One Thus-Come, The Worthy One, The Fully and Perfectly Awakened One, thus: ‘Hail! Appear, O Healer, O Healer, O Great Healer, O King of Healing!’ ”
In Tibetan pronunciation, the mantra comes out as:
(Tad-ya-ta) Om Be-kan-dze Be-kan-dze Ma-ha Be-kan-dze Ra-dza Sa-mung-ga-te So-ha
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Here are the three mantras written in Devanagari and Tibetan scripts:
नमो भगवते भैषज्यगुरु वैडूर्यप्रभराजाय तथागताय अर्हते सम्यक्सम्बुद्धाय तद्यथा: ॐ भैषज्ये भैषज्ये भैषज्य-समुद्गते स्वाहा।
(तद्यथा) ॐ भैषज्ये भैषज्ये महाभैषज्ये भैषज्यराजे समुद्गते स्वाहा।
(ཏདྱཐཱ) ཨོཾ་བེ་ཀན་ཛེ་བེ་ཀན་ཛེ་མ་ཧ་བེ་ཀན་ཛེ་ར་ཛ་ས་མུང་ག་ཏེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།
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Apr 11, 2024 23:36:28 GMT
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The Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva
To meditate on Vajrasattva is the same as to meditate upon all the buddhas. His hundred-syllable mantra is the quintessence of all mantras.
-Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Vajrasattva’s mantra is a powerful purification prayer that invokes the mindstreams of all the buddhas. Khenpo Sherab Sangpo suggests that his students recite this mantra 21 times or more each day.
Sanskrit with English translation:
oṃ
Om is the supreme expression of praise.
vajrasattva samayam anupālaya vajrasattva
Vajrasattva, ensure your samaya remains intact.
tvenopatiṣṭha dṛḍho me bhava
Be steadfast in your care of me.
sutoṣyo me bhava
Grant me unqualified contentment.
supoṣyo me bhava
Enhance everything that is noble within me.
anurakto me bhava
Look after me.
sarvasiddhiṃ me prayaccha
Grant me all accomplishments,
sarvakarmasu ca me
And in everything I do
cittaṃ śreyaḥ kuru
Ensure my mind is virtuous.
hūṃ
The hūṃ syllable is Vajrasattva’s wisdom mind.
ha ha ha ha
These represent the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyās.
hoḥ
What joy!
bhagavan sarvatathāgatavajra
Blessed One, who embodies all the tathāgatas, Vajra(sattva),
mā me muñca
Never abandon me!
vajrī bhava
Grant me the realization of vajra nature!
mahāsamayasattva
Great samayasattva,
āḥ
I am one with you.
Syllable of uniting in non-duality.
hūṃ
Syllable of the wisdom of great bliss.
phat
Syllable that clarifies the wisdom of inseparable bliss-emptiness and destroys the dualistic mind that obstructs realization.
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Here is the mantra written in Devanagari script:
ॐ वज्रसत्त्व समयम् अनुपालय वज्रसत्त्व त्वेनोपतिष्ठ दृढो मे भव सुतोष्यो मे भव सुपोष्यो मे भव अनुरक्तो मे भव सर्वसिद्धिं मे प्रयच्छ सर्वकर्मसु च मे चित्तं श्रेयः कुरु हूँ ह ह ह ह होः भगवन् सर्वतथागतवज्र मा मे मुञ्च वज्री भव महासमयसत्त्व आः हूँ फट्
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Post by reden on Apr 11, 2024 23:59:06 GMT
Tibetan version of Vajrasattva:
OM
Syllable of the most supreme exclamation of praise.
BENZAR SATO SA MA YA
Vajrasattva’s Samaya
MA NU PA LA YA BENZAR SATO
O Vajrasattva, protect the samaya.
TE NO PA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHA WA
May you remain firm in me.
SU TO KA YO ME BHA WA
Grant me complete satisfaction.
SU PO KA YO ME BHA WA
Grow within me (increase the positive within me).
ANU RAKTO ME BHA WA
Be loving towards me.
SARVA SIDDHI ME PRA YATSA
Grant me all the accomplishments,
SARVA KARMA SU TSA ME
As well as all the activities.
TSITTAM SHRE YAM KU RU
Make my mind virtuous.
HUNG
Syllable of the heart essence, the seed syllable of Vajrasattva.
HA HA HA HA
Syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, and the four kāyas.
HO
Syllable of joyous laughter in them.
BHA GA WAN SARVA TA THA GA TA
Bhagawan, who embodies all the Vajra Tathāgatas, [Of all the Blessed Thus-Gone Ones,]
BENZRA MA ME MUNTSA
Do not abandon me.
BENZRI BHA WA
Grant me realization of the vajra nature.
MA HA SA MA YA SATO
O great Samayasattva,
AH
Make me one with you.
Syllable of uniting in non-duality
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Here is the mantra written in Tibetan script (Wylie transliteration):
ཨོཾ་བེནྡྲ་སཏོ་ས་མ་ཡ་མ་ནུ་པ་ལ་ཡ་བེནྡྲ་སཏོ་ཏེ་ནོ་པ་ཏིཥྛ་དྲི་དྷོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ་སུ་ཏོ་ཀ་ཡོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ་སུ་པོ་ཀ་ཡོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ་ཨ་ནུ་རཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ་སརྦ་སིདྡྷི་མེ་པྲ་ཡཙ་སརྦ་ཀརྨ་སུ་ཙ་མེ་ཙིཏྟམ་ཤྲེ་ཡཾ་ཀུ་རུ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧ་ཧོ་བྷ་ག་ཝན་སརྦ་ཏ་ཐ་ག་ཏ་བེནྡྲ་མ་མེ་མུནྩ་བེནྡྲི་བྷ་ཝ་མ་ཧ་ས་མ་ཡ་སཏོ་ཨཱཿ
Sanskrit with extensive English translation:
oṃ vajrasattva
The most excellent exclamation of praise, the qualities of Buddha’s holy body, speech, and mind; all that is precious and auspicious. Vajrasattva, you whose wisdom is inseparable bliss-emptiness,
samayam anupālaya
And whose pledge must not be transgressed, lead me along the path you took to enlightenment,
vajrasattva tvenopatiṣṭha
Make me abide close to your holy vajra mind,
dṛḍho me bhava
Please grant me a firm and stable realization of the ultimate nature of phenomena,
sutoṣyo me bhava
Please grant me the blessing of being extremely pleased and satisfied with me,
supoṣyo me bhava
Bless me with the nature of well-developed great bliss,
anurakto me bhava
Bless me with the nature of love that leads me to your state,
sarvasiddhiṃ me prayaccha
Please grant me all-powerful attainments,
sarvakarmasu ca me cittaṃ śreyaḥ kuru
Please grant me all virtuous actions and your glorious qualities,
hūṃ
Seed syllable of the vajra holy mind, the heart essence and seed syllable of Vajrasattva,
ha ha ha ha hoḥ
Seed syllables of the four immeasurables, the four empowerments, the four joys, the four kayas, and the five wisdoms,
bhagavan sarvatathāgatavajra
You, who are the vajra of all who have destroyed every obscuration, of all who have attained all realizations, of all who have passed beyond suffering, and of all who have realized emptiness and know things just as they are,
mā me muñca
Do not abandon me,
vajrī bhava
Grant me the nature of indestructible union, the realization of your vajra nature,
mahāsamayasattva
You, the great pledge being with the holy vajra mind,
āḥ
Make me one with you.
Syllable of uniting in non-duality.
hūṃ
Syllable of the wisdom of great bliss.
phat
Syllable that clarifies the wisdom of inseparable bliss-emptiness and destroys the dualistic mind that obstructs realization.
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Post by reden on Apr 12, 2024 0:02:03 GMT
Mahakala, also called "the Great Black One," is the Lord of time and transcendent wisdom.
Mahakala is classically depicted as black. Just as all colors are absorbed and dissolved in black, it is said that all names and forms merge into those of Mahakala, symbolizing his all-encompassing and complete nature. The black color can also represent the total absence of color, and in this case, it signifies Mahakala's nature as the ultimate or absolute reality.
Mahakala is almost always represented with a crown of five skulls, which symbolize the transformation of the five kleshas (afflictions) into the Five Wisdoms of the Buddha.
Mahakala's face is depicted with a belligerent expression, prominent fangs, and a bulging gaze. Mahakala is the symbol of the force that destroys the illusion that prevents the attainment of enlightenment.
The mantra of Mahakala Bernachen is OM SHRI MAHAKALA YAKSHA BETALI HUNG DZA.
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Here is the phrase "OM SHRI MAHAKALA YAKSHA BETALI HUNG DZA" written in Devanagari script:
ॐ श्री महाकाल यक्ष बेताली हूँ ज
Please note that "HUNG" and "DZA" are Tibetan words and do not have a direct Sanskrit equivalent. Therefore, they are written in Devanagari as they are pronounced: "हूँ" (hūm̐) and "ज" (ja), respectively.
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Post by reden on Apr 12, 2024 0:39:11 GMT
The Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sūtra (Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: 首楞嚴三昧經; simplified Chinese: 首楞严三昧经; pinyin: Shǒuléngyán Sānmèi Jīng; Wade–Giles: Shou-leng-yen San-mei Ching; Vietnamese: Kinh Thủ Lang Nghiêm Tam Muội) is an early Mahayana sutra of Indian origin[1] which focuses on the transcendental nature, supernatural powers, and transformational feats bestowed upon the meditation practitioner by the state of meditation called the "Śūraṅgama Samādhi" or the "Samādhi of the Heroic Progression."
History
The Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sūtra was translated from the Sanskrit into Chinese by Kumārajīva probably between 402 and 409 C.E.[1] Sengyou's sutra catalogue entitled Chu sanzang ji ji (出三藏記集), which was produced in 515 CE, credits Lokakṣema with first translating this text considerably earlier in the 2nd century C.E.; however, it was already considered lost at the time of Sengyou's work. It was later translated into Tibetan by Sakyaprabha and Ratnaraksita at the beginning of the 9th century.[1]
Contents
The nature of the Buddha
Professor Lamotte describes the nature of the Buddha in this sutra as follows:
This is Sakyamuni in Heroic Progress, a pure ray of wisdom and power, who manifests himself simultaneously in our little universe of four continents, in the Great Cosmos ... and in all the great cosmic systems ...; there, he is some divinity .... He is the same as the Buddha Vairocana.[2]
Powers of the Buddha
The sutra describes the 100 powers and abilities which the Buddha or 10th-level Bodhisattvas can perform, while operating from within this samādhi state.
Amongst the wonders which the Buddha can perform whilst in this state of Śūraṅgama Samādhi are:
The projection or conjuration of 84,000 other Buddhas, identical replicas of himself and equally real[3]
Complete purification of individual mind and ability to purify the mind of others
Universal omniscience
True knowledge regarding the mechanism of cause and effect without mental obstruction
Knowledge regarding the dissipation of mental defilement, such as anger and lust
Elimination of unnecessary mental activity and complete elimination of defilements
Harmonious renunciation of worldly life
Being able to access and understand different existential forms
Being able to change sex at will without mental confusion
Always knowing the right moral path to proceed
Placing immense Buddha Paradises (universes) into a single pore of the skin
Always presiding over the superknowledges (abhijna)
Always emitting rays of light over all universes without exception
Being able to speak and understand all languages of all universes
Completely avoiding all evil paths
Possessing a knowledge which is profound and unfathomable[4]
Knowledge of the Dharmadhatu
Part of that profound and unfathomable knowledge is that all dharmas (things) have their basis in the dharma-dhatu - the element of phenomena. In this sense, there is non-duality that characterises everything, since everything is possessed of the 'one flavour' of the dharma-dhatu. The Buddha states:
A bodhisattva knows that all dharmas rest eternally on the fundamental element (dharmadhatu) without coming or going.[5]
Attributes of a Buddha
The Buddha remarks in the Śūraṅgama Samādhi Sūtra that any being who cultivates this samadhi will be able to know through pratyatmajnanam, "through personal experience,"[6] through knowing directly within oneself, all the attributes of a buddha.[6]
Amongst those attributes is sovereignty over all humans and gods. The Buddha states of great bodhisattvas and buddhas who possess this samadhi:
They possess sovereignty over all the gods and mankind, but do not fall into pride.[7]
A bodhisattva who is immersed in this samadhi also rises beyond birth and death. The Buddha comments:
He appears to die, but he is beyond birth, death and passing on.[8]
Blessings
Even the writing down, studying and teaching of this Śūraṅgama Samādhi by a master of Dharma will bestow immense blessings, twenty in number. These include:
Inconceivable knowledge and wisdom,
Inconceivable vision of all the buddhas, and
Inconceivable virtues and sovereign powers.[9]
One of these powers is demonstrated by the future Buddha, Maitreya, who transforms himself into innumerable different types of leading spiritual personages in countless world-systems at the same time.
Commenting on the great qualities of those such as Maitreya who preside over the Śūraṅgama Samādhi, a whole host of great Bodhisattvas declare in the presence of the Buddha:
Bhagavat [Blessed One], just as gold, even if it has gone through the forge, never loses its self-nature [svabhava - essential nature], so these great Satpurusas [True Beings], wherever they may go, manifest everywhere their natures of inconceivable qualities.[10]
Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
This particular samadhi is equally praised in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, where the Buddha explains that this samadhi is the essence of the nature of the Buddha, and is indeed the "mother of all Buddhas."[11]
The Buddha also comments that the Śūraṅgama Samādhi additionally goes under several other names, specifically:
Prajñāpāramitā (Perfection of Wisdom)
Vajra Samadhi (Diamond Samadhi)
Simhanada Samadhi (Lion's Roar samadhi)
Buddhasvabhava (Buddha essence).[11]
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Post by reden on Apr 12, 2024 0:45:59 GMT
The Ten Stages Sutra (Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra; simplified Chinese: 十地经; traditional Chinese: 十地經; pinyin: shí dì jīng; Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པའི་མདོ། Wylie: phags pa sa bcu pa'i mdo) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The sutra also appears as the 26th chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Modern Buddhist studies scholars generally hold that these Mahayana sūtras first began to appear between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE. They continued being composed, compiled and edited until the decline of Buddhism in India.
Contents
In the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, the Buddha describes ten stages of development that a bodhisattva must progress through in order to accomplish full Enlightenment and Buddhahood, as well as the subject of Buddha-nature and the awakening of the aspiration for Enlightenment.
Commentary
There is a commentary which survives in Chinese called the Daśabhūmikavibhāṣā, it is attributed to Nagarjuna.
Another commentary on the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, the Dasabhūmikabhāsya, was written by Vasubandhu in Sanskrit and translated into Chinese by Bodhiruci and others during the 6th century CE.
Chinese Daśabhūmikā school
A Daśabhūmikā school said to have existed in China at one time, which centered on this sutra, but was later absorbed by the Huayan school, as the Huayan school's principal sutra, the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, already contains the Daśabhūmika Sūtra. The Daśabhūmika Sūtra can also be found in modified form in the thirty-ninth chapter as part of the journey of the bodhisattva Sudhana. The Huayan school declined in China after the death of its fifth and best known patriarch, Zongmi (780–841), but they provided major foundational teachings for the Mahayana schools which exist today, such as Zen.
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