I nconceivable, the Buddha’s body holds within it all lands. He is present everywhere, guiding beings and teaching true Dharma. The Avatamsaka Sutra quote, Buddhism Ch.2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
I 59 can penetrate the future and exhaust all eons in a single thought. In a single thought I completely enter all eons of the three periods of time. The Avatamsaka Sutra quote, Buddhism Ch.40, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. 59 “I” here refers to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. share
O n the tip of a single hair appear the lands of the Jewelled Kings. Sitting in a mote of dust, I turn the great Dharma wheel. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
O n the tip of an extremely fine hair, appear jewelled lands of past, present and future; lands on hair tips as numerous as dust motes in all lands of the ten directions, I58 deeply enter, adorn, and purify. The Avatamsaka Sutra quote, Buddhism Ch.40, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. 57 ????273???????????? 58 “I” here refers to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. share
T he reason for this lies in the delusion of beings who have turned their backs on enlightenment and joined with the defiling dust. Thus, the wearisome defilements come into being and mundane phenomena exist. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
T he union and mixture of various causes and conditions account for their illusory and false existence, and the separation and dispersion of the causes and conditions result in their illusory and false extinction. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll beings come into being because of false interaction. Their bodies go through changes and they are caught in the temporal and spatial combinations of this world. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
C onfusion about falseness brings about emptiness. Relying on emptiness, worlds coming into being. Thoughts settle, forming countries. Consciousness becomes beings. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 6, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
Y ou cannot recover past thoughts, you cannot hold on to present thoughts, and you cannot obtain future thoughts. The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra quote, Buddhism Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll conditioned dharmas are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble or a shadow, Like dew or like a lightning ?ash. Contemplate them thus. The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra quote, Buddhism Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
W ithin a clap or a snap of a finger there are 3.2 trillion thoughts. Each thought creates forms and each form contains consciousness. These consciousnesses and thoughts are extremely subtle and cannot be grasped. The Bodhisattva Dwelling in the Womb Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by Poh Lan Song. share
A ll countries that have outflows and all living beings are the enlightened bright wonderful mind without outflows. Seeing, hearing, awareness, and knowing are an illusory falseness brought about by the disease and its conditions. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll conditions that bring about forms and the mind as well as dharmas pertaining to the mind and all the conditioned dharmas are manifestations of the mind only. Your bodies and your minds all appear within the wonder of the bright, true, essential, magnificent mind. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll dharmas that arise are only manifestations of the mind. All causes and effects, the worlds as many as atoms of universe, take on substance because of the heart. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
C onsider the nature of earth: its coarsest aspect is the earth itself; its subtlest aspect is a mote of dust, which at its smallest would be a particle of dust bordering on emptiness. If one divided one of those particles of dust that is barely form to begin with into seven parts and then split one of those parts, emptiness itself would be arrived at. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 3, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll the defiling objects that appear, all the illusory, ephemeral phenomena, spring up in the very spot where they also come to an end. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
I f world systems actually existed, that would constitute a unity of appearances. What the Thus Come One speaks of as a unity of appearances is not a unity of appearances. Therefore it is called a unity of appearances. The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra quote, Buddhism Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
P ut an end to defiling dust, and unite with enlightenment, so that true suchness, the wonderful enlightened bright nature, comes into being. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
F rom such confused causes, the cause of confusion perpetuates itself. When one realizes that confusion has no cause , the falseness becomes baseless. Since it never arose, why would you hope for its end? The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
C onsider the person who, because of cataracts, saw flowers in space. Once the cataracts were removed, the ?owers in space disappeared. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
C onfusion is groundless and ultimately empty in nature. In the past, there basically was no confusion. It merely seemed as if there were confusion and enlightenment. When the delusion about confusion and enlightenment is ended, enlightenment will not give rise to confusion. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 4, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A t first there was one essential brightness, which split into a sixfold combination. If but one part ceases and returns, all six functions will stop as well. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 6, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
W hen our mind is under delusion, the Saddharma Pundarika Sutra ‘turns us round’. With an enlightened mind we ‘turn round’ the Sutra instead. To recite the Sutra for a considerable time without knowing its principal object indicates that you are a stranger to its meaning. The correct way to recite the Sutra is without holding any arbitrary belief. Otherwise, it is wrong. He who is above ‘Affirmative’ and ‘Negative’ rides permanently in the White Bullock Cart (the Vehicle of Buddha). The Platform Sutra quote, Buddhism The Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra,ch.7, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam. share
T his is similar to a person pointing his finger at the moon to show it to someone else. Guided by the finger, the other person should see the moon. If he looks at the finger instead and mistakes it for the moon, he loses not only the moon but the finger also. The Surangama Sutra quote, Buddhism Book 2, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share
A ll appearances are empty and false. If one sees all appearances as no appearances, then one sees the Thus Come One. The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra quote, Buddhism Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. share