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Master Sheng-Ru
The Esoteric Significance of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra
Author:Venerable Shengru
Update:2025-07-21 02:45:09
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Contents
Chapter 1: Volume I - Sevenfold Inquiry into the Mind
Section One: First Argument—The Conscious Mind Resides Within the Body
Section 2: The Second Location of Seeking the Mind—The Mind is Outside the Body
Section 3: The Third Inquiry into the Mind—Consciousness Latent Within the Sense Organs
Section 4: The Fourth Inquiry into the Mind: Opening the Eyes to Light and Closing Them to Darkness
Section Five: The Fifth Approach to Investigating the Mind - The Mind Manifests Wherever It Engages
Section Six: The Sixth Inquiry into the Mind—The Mind Is in the Middle
Section Seven: The Seventh Inquiry into the Mind—The Mind as Non-Attachment to All Phenomena
Section 8: Two Types of Fundamental Perversions
Chapter Two: Exegesis of Volume Two Paragraphs
Section 1: Seeing the Nature Endowed with Four Conditions
Section Two: Individual Karmic Delusions and Collective Deluded Views
Section Three: The Five Aggregates Are Unreal
Chapter 3: Volume 3 Section Explanation
Section 1: The Unreality of the Six Entrances
Section Two: The Twelve Sense Bases Are Unreal
Section Three: The Seven Great Delusions of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Space, and Consciousness
Section IV: Ananda's Verse of Making Vows
Chapter 4 Volume 4 Paragraph Exegesis
Section 1: The Intrinsic Harmony of the Four Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind)
Section 2: The Parable of the Confused Man Who Suddenly Gained Enlightenment
Section III: The Parable of Yajñadatta: On the Baseless Nature of Delusion
Chapter Five: The Twenty-Five Saints' Realization of the Perfect Penetration Dharma Gate (Volume Five) (1)
Chapter Five: Volume Five — The Twenty-Five Sages' Approach to Realization of Perfect Penetration (2)
Chapter Five: Volume Five, XXV: Enlightenment and Perfect Penetration at the Holy Site (Dharma Gate) (3)
Chapter Six: Passage Explanations for Other Volumes