How to Attain the Great Śūraṅgama Samādhi

Lengyan (Śūraṅgama) is a kind of the hardest precious gem, used here as a metaphor for the indestructible, unbreakable solidity of the tathāgatagarbha. The Lengyan Samādhi (Śūraṅgama Samādhi) taught in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra refers precisely to the suchness-immovable nature 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 dullness or restlessness; toward the six sense objects He is without thought, without awareness, and 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, can make Him emerge from samādhi, or can make Him scattered and lax. Therefore the tathāgatagarbha need not receive the precepts or uphold the precepts, because He never violates the precepts.

To realize this great Lengyan Samādhi, one must, through investigating Chan (canchan) and seeing the mind and seeing the nature, realize the tathāgatagarbha; in this way one attains the great Lengyan Samādhi. At that point one is at minimum a bodhisattva at the seventh abode (śāvasthā), and ahead still lie the ten abodes, the ten practices, the ten dedications, the ten bhūmis, the bodhisattva of equal enlightenment, then the bodhisattva of wondrous enlightenment, and finally one becomes a Buddha.

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