The Diamond Sutra: There is no eternal 'self' or 'beings'; these are merely concepts we use for convenience. All things lack a fixed essence. The Buddha taught us to transcend dualistic thinking. When performing good deeds, we should not be attached to the idea of doing good, maintaining a free mind. When understanding and explaining the truth, we should remain unmoved by external circumstances.
The Shurangama Sutra Volume 10: Clarifies the ten types of misconceptions and attachments encountered in cultivation, explains that the five skandhas are born of delusion, and details the supreme merits of reciting the Shurangama Sutra and Mantra for eliminating karmic obstacles and attaining Bodhi. The Buddha instructs Ananda to transmit this teaching to future generations to help sentient beings recognize demonic states and avoid deviant views.
Full text of The Shurangama Sutra Volume 9, detailing the ten demonic states that practitioners may encounter in Samadhi (meditation), where heavenly demons or evil spirits may possess individuals and preach false dharmas to mislead practitioners.
The full text of "The Shurangama Sutra Volume 8": Practitioners should cut off the five pungent plants to avoid causing greed, lust, and anger. They should strictly hold the pure precepts, forever cut off the lustful mind, and not eat meat or drink alcohol. Starting from the Dry Wisdom Ground, passing through the Ten Faiths, Ten Dwellings, Ten Conducts, Ten Transferings, Four Additional Practices, and Ten Grounds, finally attaining Equal Enlightenment and Wonderful Enlightenment. The ten kinds of habits (lust, greed, arrogance, anger, deception, lying, resentment, views, injustice, litigation) and the retributions recruited by them. The six kinds of evil retributions recruited by the six sense organs creating karma (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking), the causes of the formation of evil paths such as hells, hungry ghosts, and animals, the cultivation methods and characteristics of the ten kinds of immortals, the formation and characteristics of the six desire heavens. The reincarnation of all living beings is recruited by their own false thinking and karma. If one can realize Bodhi, one can be liberated.
"The Shurangama Sutra 7th Volume" Complete Scripture: The Buddha explains the roots of beings' inversion, the causes of the twelve categories of beings, and how each relates to specific forms of inversion and rebirth.
The Shurangama Sutra Volume 6: Complete Text - Mahayana Buddhist Concepts of Eliminating Lust, Killing, Meat-Eating, Stealing, and Lying, and the Basic Precepts and Mental Purification for Practitioners
The Shurangama Sutra Volume 5 Complete Text: Ananda asks the Buddha about the nature of body and mind binding and how to be liberated; the Buddha explains that the sense organs and objects share the same source; establishing knowledge in perception is the root of ignorance, while perceiving without establishing knowledge is Nirvana
The Shurangama Sutra 4th Volume: The Buddha explains the formation of the six sense organs (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind). Senses are originally pure but obscured by attachment to external objects. Transcending these limits leads to higher awareness and a return to purity.
The Shurangama Sutra Volume 3 (Full Text): New understanding of mind, body, and world after enlightenment. The relationship between the six sense organs, six sense objects, and six consciousnesses. The Buddha explains in detail the relationship between tongue and taste, body and touch, mind and dharmas, and how they produce the corresponding consciousnesses. It explores the origin of consciousness, pointing out that consciousness is not simply produced by the six roots or six dusts.
The Shurangama Sutra Volume 2: The entire scripture - All phenomena are Mind only, the True Mind is unchanging, transcending all dualities, but sentient beings cannot see their nature due to delusion and attachment.
