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T herefore, creating knowledge within enlightened perception is fundamental ignorance. To be devoid of perception within enlightened perception is the non out?ow true purity of Nirvana.

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quote 7970 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 5, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

B ased on wonderful understanding that neither ceases to be nor comes into being, I unite with the Treasury of the Tathagata. Thus the Treasury of the Tathagata is the unique and wonderful enlightened brightness which completely illumines the Dharma Realm. That is why, within it, the one is limitless; the limitless is one. In the small appears the great; in the great appears the small.

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quote 7969 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

T he truly wonderful enlightened brightness is the same way. You recognize space , and space appears. Recognizing earth, water, fire, and wind, each will appear. If all are recognized, all will appear.

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quote 7968 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

A wareness arises because of defiling objects. Phenomena exist because of the sense organs. The phenomena and the perception are both devoid of their own natures. They support each other like intertwining reeds.

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quote 7967 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 5, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

E ach person regarded his physical body as being like a particle of dust blown about in the emptiness of the ten directions; sometimes visible, sometimes not, or as being like a single bubble ?oating on the clear, vast sea, appearing from nowhere and disappearing into oblivion.

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quote 7966 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

A s to that foremost, rare, and hard - to - understand Dharma accomplished by the Buddha— only the Buddhas and the Buddha can exhaust the Real Mark of all dharmas. That is to say with regard to all dharmas: the suchness of the marks, the suchness of the nature, the suchness of the substance, the suchness of the power, the suchness of the function, the suchness of the causes , the suchness of the conditions, the suchness of the effects , the suchness of the retributions, and the suchness of the ultimate equality from beginning to end.

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quote 7965 | Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (Sk) The Lotus Sutra
Ch.2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

A ll Dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed⁵⁶, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor diminish.

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quote 7964 | The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

56 Non-arising, non-ceasing.

A ll mundane phenomena became the wonderfully bright primal mind of Bodhi. The essence of the mind became completely pervasive, containing the ten directions.

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quote 7963 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

H ow unexpected! The selfnature is originally pure in itself. How unexpected! The self-nature is originally neither produced nor destroyed⁵⁵. How unexpected! The self-nature is originally complete in itself. How unexpected! The self-nature is originally without movement. How unexpected! The self-nature can produce the ten thousand dharmas.

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quote 7962 | The Platform Sutra
The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra,ch.1, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam.

55 Non-arising and non-ceasing.

Y ou should know that from beginningless time all beings are continually born and continually die, simply because they do not know the everlasting true mind with its pure nature and bright substance. Instead they engage in false thinking. These thoughts are not true, and so they lead to further transmigration.

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quote 7961 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

I f within the true and eternal nature one seeks coming and going, confusion and enlightenment, or birth and death, one will never find them.

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quote 7960 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

O ur Essence of Mind which is the seed or kernel of enlightenment (Bodhi) is pure by nature, and by making use of this mind alone we can reach Buddhahood directly.

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quote 7959 | The Platform Sutra
The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra,ch.1, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam.

Y et the mind is formless it cannot be grasped or perceived, but it is the unreal accumulation and arising of all dharmas which are ultimately without owner⁵³, without I and mine⁵⁴.

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quote 7958 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

53 Owner, or master.
54 Mine, or my possession.

O ne who obtains Bodhi is like a person who awakens to tell of the events in a dream; since his mind will remain awake and clear, why would he want to hold onto the things in a dream?

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quote 7957 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

T hus Come One does not come from anywhere nor does he go anywhere. Therefore he is called the Thus Come One.

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quote 7956 | The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

O ne who looks for me in forms, or seeks me in sounds, practices a deviant path and will never see the Thus Come One.

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quote 7955 | The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

O ne who adorns Buddha lands does not adorn anything. Therefore it is called adorning.

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quote 7954 | The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

A ll the Dharma which the Thus Come One has spoken can neither be clung to nor spoken of. It is neither Dharma nor non-dharma.

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quote 7953 | The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

A s I⁵² understand what the Buddha has said, there is no predetermined Dharma called Anuttara-samyaksambodhi, and there are not any predetermined Dharmas which the Thus Come One could speak.

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quote 7952 | The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

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52 “I” here refers to Venerable Subhuti, one of Sakyamuni Buddha’s great disciples and foremost in the understanding of emptiness.

F in the midst of this, one controls one’s thoughts with single- mindedness, does worthy deeds with proper demeanor, commits no evil, and performs only good, then with the merit and virtue acquired one reaches emancipation and is able to escape from this world, be reborn in heavenly realms, and finally reach Nirvana.

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quote 7951 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

I t is like the towns and villages, they all depend on the great ground where they stand. All the herbs, grasses, flowers, trees, and woods also depend on the ground for their growth. With these ten wholesome ways of actions it is the same. All men and devas are established (in their human and deva nature) depending on them. The illumination of all the Shravakas, of all the Pratyekas, the way of the Bodhisattva, all Buddhadharmas they all are attained and come to fruition due to these ten wholesome great grounds.

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quote 7950 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

Y ou should know that these ten wholesome actions can lead up to the completion of the Ten Powers (of the Tathagata), of the (Four Kinds of) Fearlessness, of the Eighteen Dharmas that distinguish (the Buddha) and of all Buddhadharmas. You should therefore practice and train with diligence.

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quote 7949 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

Y ou again behold all these great Bodhisattvas of marvelous appearance, dignified and pure. All this comes into being entirely through the merit of cultivating wholesome actions. Again all the powerful ones like the eight classes of devas and dragons, and such like they also come into being because of the merits of wholesome actions.

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quote 7948 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

W hen you behold the body of the Buddha born from a hundred thousand of Kotis of merit, with all the marks adorned, the splendor of its radiance covering the whole of the great assembly.

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quote 7947 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

T he wise ones knowing this ought to cultivate wholesome actions. Through this the aggregates sense-bases and elements that will be given rise to, will all be upright and those who will see them will not grow tired of them.

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quote 7946 | The Discourse on the Ten Wholesome Ways of Action
Translated by Saddhaloka Bhikkhu.

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