What is the message in Surangama sutra?
I don't know what the message the writer want to send. But I know what kind of message I've gotten from it.
The full name of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra includes a word 密因，which someone translate it into "Hidden Basis" or "Secret Cause".
Which thing is hidden? What is the ultimate secret?
If you've watched the movie "Matrix", you maybe understand the hypothesis of "Brain in a vat",
which tell us there could be a hidden secret truth behind everything we sense.
Let me quote some "key principle" from Wikipedia as follow.
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda; Pali: पटिच्चसमुप्पाद paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key principle in Buddhist teachings, which states that all dharmas ("phenomena") arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist".
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra tells me this "principle" is wrong.
If you think that that thing is depended on this thing, or the other way, this thing is depend on that thing.If you persist that something is depend on the other things. Forest is based on woods, castles is based on bricks. You are wrong.
According to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, all your problems and anxieties and sufferings is because you are too much clinging to the sensed "woods" or "bricks".
You are too much believing that with all "the small Lego toy pieces" you have you can build everything, you forget the real basis, the hidden basis, the secret basis or cause," the toy factory". (Everything depends on it, not each other.)
And according to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, what is this toy factory, is it God? is it Śūnyatā？is it some basic particle, some basic energy, or other objective basis? the answers to all these questions we can never know. It is the ultimate secret, and everlasting secret.
Anyone who thinks himself figure it out, especially because he experience some special or unique, is enchanted and deluded by images (phenomena), and forget or don't realize the "mirror" or "screen" "TV set" "stage", THE UNKNOWN ULTIMATE SECRET SOURCE,
which is always unknown. No matter how much you know from some kind of spiritual experience or other mysterious experience, there is still THE UNKNOWN.
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra list the special experiences people gotten from meditation as fifty 魔， someone translate it into demon. I prefer to translate it as obstacle such as blinders.
Don't cheated by what you see, what you feel, what you sense, what you experience. They can never be the ultimate truth or the ultimate true nature of yourself. Thus no one knows the final answer. It is always hidden by what you see, including blackness or emptiness, or nothingness (like space). These are all blinders. We'd better admit that we don't know it, don't pretend to a saint which actually could be called a demon instead.
The full name of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra includes a word 密因，which someone translate it into "Hidden Basis" or "Secret Cause".
Which thing is hidden? What is the ultimate secret?
If you've watched the movie "Matrix", you maybe understand the hypothesis of "Brain in a vat",
which tell us there could be a hidden secret truth behind everything we sense.
Let me quote some "key principle" from Wikipedia as follow.
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda; Pali: पटिच्चसमुप्पाद paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key principle in Buddhist teachings, which states that all dharmas ("phenomena") arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist".
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra tells me this "principle" is wrong.
If you think that that thing is depended on this thing, or the other way, this thing is depend on that thing.If you persist that something is depend on the other things. Forest is based on woods, castles is based on bricks. You are wrong.
According to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, all your problems and anxieties and sufferings is because you are too much clinging to the sensed "woods" or "bricks".
You are too much believing that with all "the small Lego toy pieces" you have you can build everything, you forget the real basis, the hidden basis, the secret basis or cause," the toy factory". (Everything depends on it, not each other.)
And according to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, what is this toy factory, is it God? is it Śūnyatā？is it some basic particle, some basic energy, or other objective basis? the answers to all these questions we can never know. It is the ultimate secret, and everlasting secret.
Anyone who thinks himself figure it out, especially because he experience some special or unique, is enchanted and deluded by images (phenomena), and forget or don't realize the "mirror" or "screen" "TV set" "stage", THE UNKNOWN ULTIMATE SECRET SOURCE,
which is always unknown. No matter how much you know from some kind of spiritual experience or other mysterious experience, there is still THE UNKNOWN.
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra list the special experiences people gotten from meditation as fifty 魔， someone translate it into demon. I prefer to translate it as obstacle such as blinders.
Don't cheated by what you see, what you feel, what you sense, what you experience. They can never be the ultimate truth or the ultimate true nature of yourself. Thus no one knows the final answer. It is always hidden by what you see, including blackness or emptiness, or nothingness (like space). These are all blinders. We'd better admit that we don't know it, don't pretend to a saint which actually could be called a demon instead.
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