The Intrinsically Pure Mind Transcending All Realms of Form, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch, and Dharmas

The original text of the Śūraṅgama Sūtra states: "If you stubbornly cling to the faculty of discernment, perception, and observation—that which apprehends and knows—as being the mind, then this mind must inherently possess its complete nature entirely apart from all activities of the objects of form, scent, taste, touch, and all other dusts."

Explanation: If you are attached to the mind that discriminates forms, sounds, scents, tastes, tactile sensations, and mental objects, the mind that perceives the six dusts, the mind that observes the six dusts, and believe this must be the originally pure intrinsic mind, then this mind should exist independently, separated from all these realms of form, sound, scent, taste, and touch, retaining its complete characteristics—it would not arise with the arising of the six dusts nor cease with their cessation. This means that this mind should be an autonomous mind, a mind that fundamentally exists, not a mind that only appears because the six dusts exist.

However, that mind of discernment, perception, and observation ceases to exist when separated from the six dusts; therefore, it is not the originally pure intrinsic mind.