01 Complete Enlightenment (Michell)

01 Complete Enlightenment (Michell)
THE SUTRA OF COMPLETE ENLIGHTENMENT
Translated from the Chinese of Buddhatrata
by Ven. Guo-go Bhikshu.

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Bodhisattva Manjusri
Please expound to the multitude who
have come to this assembly
the Tathagatas Dharma practice of the
original-arising purity of the causal ground.

Please also expound to us how bodhisattvas
may initiate this state
of pure mind within the Mahayana
and leave all illness. w
ill not fall into erroneous views.
how they can attain correct abiding
and not fall into erroneous views.

The original-arising purity of the causal
ground of theTathagatas relies on the
complete illumination of intrinsic enlightenment,
which is pure in essence and permanently
free from ignorance.

What is ignorance? Virtuous man,
since beginningless time, all sentient
beings have had all sorts of delusions,
like a disoriented person who has
lost his sense of direction.

They mistake the four great elements
as the attributes of their bodies, and
the conditioned impressions
of the six sense objects as the attributes
of their minds.

They are like a man with an illness of
the eyes who sees an illusory
flower in the sky, or a second moon.




Because of this false existence to which
he clings, he remains in the turning
wheel of birth and death.
Hence this is called ignorance.


this ignorance has no real substance.
It is like a person in a dream. Though the
person exists in the dream,
when the dreamer awakens,
there is nothing that can be grasped.




This nonexistence of birth and death
and body and mind is so not as a
consequence of contrived effort.
It is so by its intrinsic nature.

The awareness of their nonexistence is like
empty space. That which is aware of the
empty space is like the appearance
of the illusory flower.

However, one cannot say that
the nature of this awareness
is nonexistent. Eliminating both
existence and nonexistence
is in accordance with pure enlightenment.


the nature of empty space is ever unmoving.
It is free from conceptual knowledge and views.




Manjusri, you should know
that all Tathagatas,
from their original-arising causal ground,
use wisdom to enlighten
and penetrate ignorance.
Realizing that ignorance is like
a flower in the sky,

they are thus liberated from the continuance
of birth and death.
Like a person seen in a dream who
cannot be found when the dreamer awakens,
awareness is like empty space.
It is impartial and equal, and ever unmoving.

When enlightenment pervades all ten directions,
the Buddha Path is accomplished.
There is no place where illusions vanish,
and there is no attainment
in accomplishing the Buddha Path,



for the intrinsic nature is already wholly complete.
By this, bodhisattvas
can give rise to the bodhi-mind.
Sentient beings in the Dharma Ending Age
through this practice will avoid erroneous views.

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