SURANGAMA SUTRA EXPLAINED 8.

Buddha said:

- A Nan! If blind people see black dark when suddenly bright eyes should see a variety of appearances. He called it by sight. And when the other person in a dark room, just see a black front completely, suddenly see everything because of the lights, should have called the light properly. If the lamp lights have been seen, and if the light is seen, the relationship to him? So do you know, the lights make us see clearly everything, and that is due in the eyes, not light. When the eye discern objects, "nature that" it is the mind, not the eyes.

After Buddha show the differences between the nature and the see of his eyes, now he Ananda argued that blind people see darkness, where a dark to see. Buddha taught to consider that the blind see only darkness is not something that, while sighted people sitting in the dark in a closed room, the bright eyes only see a black have any other where the blind. So if the blind and sighted people sit in a closed dark room, seeing they are different from each other. Buddha taught that if the blind is light, he suddenly Ananda that view as seen by the eye. But if it is the same reasoning, the bright dark eyes sitting in a closed room with the lights suddenly see everything they see now is due to what must be the eyes. This is wrong.
So his eyes see or the mind?

To say that the eyes see is wrong, short-sighted eye that is not seen as wrong. But to say that the mind sees, the mind that is the mind? Scripture tells us that: "The past mind impossible elect, now it impossible prime, future interest impossibility of efficient" means Center Removal past, present reeling, future care less. So take care to see?

Once upon a time he Hue Ability to kneel in front of the temple three uninterrupted years to Fatherland legal requirements with Bodhidharma. Seeing Hue The heart, To ask:

- He came here for?

Hue The response:

- The legal requirements for peace of mind.

To ask:

- He brought to mind an.

Hue The search did not feel the mind because the mind changes over time, do not stop the head, how to get it out. Mind is the concept, is the delusion should change constantly. Every moment there are 900 ideas that is 900 mind is that the mind, which takes. When they cut off your wandering thoughts, foot care is shown, the Buddha nature manifest themselves will have peace, joy and liberation. Conversely, if your mind is full of thoughts, running in attachment careers that the temple by the monks pray for peace, then how safe is. A salty foods thirst but like others drinking water Dum, how the thirsty. To mind his own safety, to eliminate less wandering thoughts, worry cultivation of virtue, sexual know basics minorities live, the mind will be secure. Shurangama help us eliminate all wrong to have a life of ease, comfort and liberation.
When Buddha said that the mind is what he wants to teach Ananda in the bowl only consciousness in epistemology. That is eight enemy capabilities win, and majestic king has the right to power, dominating the galaxy so-called "consciousness":

1) Awareness: What is known of the eye, because of the pies, start ceiling discriminatory identity effects.

2) Er: What to know your ears, because this kind of shifting Turkey the start bar discrimination ceiling effects.

3) Rates: What is known of the nose, because this kind of shifting company should start toward the ceiling effects.

4) Damage: What is known of the tongue, because this kind of refuge necessarily need to start regardless of the ceiling effects.

5) My way: The knowledge of the body, because this kind of grill close to launch distinguish contact ceiling effects. In eight of consciousness in this way outside and before, should also called "Money contingent consciousness".

6) Consciousness: What's that, rely Italy had the effect of discrimination the tran.Trong consciousness only with the sixth form is very agile and wisdom above all as human beings have thinking to do good, head; longer make the calculations more evil it all.

7) dresses-na-Food: this has to transmit the current law to increase the overall knowledge and put the seed starts out in force.

8) A-to-skin formula: Food has to contain the seed of the legal

Size by Duy Thuc, Money contingent and awareness is an impact. When money contingent exposure to contingent ceiling (color, sound, smell, taste, touch), only through the "volume". The amount is the amount that was in the first moment is not transferred sense discrimination. The acquisition of money contingent of foreground as well as the acquisition of sounds and images of a video camera. Images, realm, external sound, the machine recorded the same way, no more no less. The only lens for images, sounds, colors outside regularly, but want to record the phenomenon on film cameras need memory stick to store. So true when it saw release only receive clear sharp objects as well as the lens, but realize you need to have a sense of consciousness added. So Ananda said that he saw the Buddha rebuked the right.

Another example is that of the human eye such as light bulbs, and the see their like electricity. When damaged bulbs such as the blind, the lamp does not burn, not the power loss or power outage. Until you see the new ball for like the blind man received his sight, light reignition. Although damaged bulbs or new, always current in the wire. That nature, too, whether human or blind eye nature that is always with them. The only difference is bright eyes, see the glorious colors, but only blind can see black.

Hence the view of the eye is the eye of so means clear the things, that "nature" is one's own mind. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.25/12/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).