How to Attain the Great Samādhi of the Śūraṅgama

Śūraṅgama is a kind of hardest gem, used here as a metaphor for the indestructible, unbreakable solidity of the tathāgatagarbha. The Śūraṅgama-samādhi taught in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra refers precisely to the suchness-immovability of the tathāgatagarbha. The tathāgatagarbha is always in samādhi; He does not correspond to the six sense objects, never scatteredly grasping at the six sense objects, and never falls into torpor or restlessness—toward the six sense objects He is without thought, without awareness, without knowing. This samādhi of the tathāgatagarbha has no time of entering, and therefore no time of exiting. No person, matter, or event can destroy His meditative concentration, none can make Him emerge from samādhi, none can make Him scattered or heedless. Therefore the tathāgatagarbha need not receive or uphold the precepts, because He never violates them.

If you wish to realize this great Śūraṅgama-samādhi, you must, through investigating Chan, awaken to the true mind and see your self-nature, and realize the tathāgatagarbha; in this way you attain the great Śūraṅgama-samādhi. At that point one is at minimum a bodhisattva at the seventh abode; thereafter there are still the ten abodes, the ten practices, the ten dedications, the ten bhūmis, the bodhisattva of equal enlightenment, and then the bodhisattva of wondrous enlightenment, and finally one becomes a Buddha.

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