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Chapter 7
"Ananda, you asked about collecting one's thoughts; I have now begun to explain the wonderful method of cultivation for entrance into Samadhi in order to seek the Bodhisattva Way. First one must be as pure as glistening frost in keeping these four rules of deportment. One must refrain from all superfluous behavior and then the three evils of the mind and the four of the mouth will have no cause to come forth. Ananda, if one does not neglect these four matters, and, further, does not pursue forms, fragrances, tastes, objects of touch, and the like, then how can any demonic deeds arise?
"If people cannot put an end to their habits from the past, you should teach them to singlemindedly recite my Light Atop the Buddha's Crown Unsurpassed Holy Mantra: Maha-Sitata-Patra. It is the None-Can-See-The-Top Hallmark atop the crown of the Tathagatas' heads. It is the mantra-heart proclaimed by the Buddhas of the Unconditioned Mind who come forth from the crowns in a blaze of light and sit upon jeweled lotus flowers.
"What is more, your past lives with Matangi's daughter have created accumulated eons of causes and conditions. Your habits of fondness and emotional love go back not just one life, nor even just one eon. Yet, as soon as I proclaimed it, she was freed forever from the love in her heart and accomplished Arhatship. Even that prostitute, who had no intention of cultivating, was imperceptibly aided by that spiritual power and was swiftly certified to the position beyond study; then what about you Hearers in the assembly, who seek the most supreme Vehicle and are resolved to realize Buddhahood? For you it should be as easy as tossing dust into a favorable wind. What, then, is the problem?
"Those in the final age who wish to sit in a Way-place must first hold the pure precepts of a Bhikshu. To do so, they must find as their teacher a foremost Shramana who is pure in the precepts. If they do not encounter a member of the Sangha who is truly pure, then it is absolutely certain that their deportment in precepts and rules cannot be accomplished. Having kept the precepts well, they should put on fresh, clean clothes, light incense in a place where they are alone, and recite this holy mantra spoken by the Heart-Buddha 108 times. After that, they should secure the boundaries and establish the Way-place.
"Then they should beseech the unsurpassed Tathagatas abiding in their lands throughout the ten directions to emit a light of great compassion that anoints the crowns of the cultivators' heads.
"Ananda, when any such pure Bhikshus, Bhikshunis, or white-robed donors in the Dharma ending Age who can get rid of greed and lust even at the mental level, hold the Buddhas' pure precepts, and in a Way-place make the vows of a Bodhisattva and can bathe upon entering and exiting each time, continuing that practice of the Way day and night for three weeks without sleep, I will appear before these people in a physical form and rub the crowns of their heads to comfort them and enable them to become enlightened."
Ananda said to the Buddha, "Bhagavan, enveloped in the Tathagata's unsurpassed, compassionate instruction, my mind has already gained an awakening, and I know how to cultivate and be certified to the Way beyond study. But how do those who cultivate in the final age and want to establish a Way-place, secure the boundaries in accord with the rules of purity of the Buddhas, Bhagavans?"
The Buddha said to Ananda, "If there are people in the Dharma-ending age who wish to establish a Way-place, they should first find a powerful white cow in the snowy mountains, one which eats the lush and fertile sweet-smelling grasses of the mountains. Since such a cow also drinks only the pure water of the snowy mountains, its dung will be very fine. They can take that cow dung, mix it with chandana, and plaster the ground with it. If not from the snowy mountains, the cow dung will smell bad and cannot be used to smear on the ground. In that case, select a level place, dig down five feet or so, and use that yellow earth. Mix it with chandana incense, 'sinking-in-water' incense, jasmine incense, continuously permeating incense, tulip incense, white paste incense, green wood incense, fragrant mound incense, sweet pine incense, and 'chicken-tongue' incense. Grind these ten ingredients to a fine powder, make a paste, and smear it on the ground of the platform. The area should be sixteen feet wide and octagonal in shape."
"In the center of the platform, place a lotus flower made of gold, silver, copper, or wood. In the middle of the flower set a bowl filled with dew collected in the eighth lunar month. Float an abundance of flower petals on the water. Arrange eight circular mirrors at measured intervals around the flower and the bowl. Outside the mirrors place sixteeen lotus flowers and sixteencensers, so that the incense-burners are adorned and arranged between the flowers. Burn only sinking-in-water incense, lighting it with an ember, not an open flame."
"Place the milk of a white cow in sixteen vessels, along with cakes made with the same kind of milk, granulated sugar, oil cakes, milk porridge, turushka, honeyed ginger, clarified butter, and filtered honey. These sixteen are set around the outside of the sixteen flowers as an offering to the Buddhas and great Bodhisattvas."
"At every mealtime and at midnight, prepare a half-pint of honey and three tenths of a pint of clarified butter. Set up a small incense burner in front of the platform. Decoct the fragrant liquid from the turushka incense and use it to cleanse the coals. Light them so that blaze bursts forth, and toss the clarified butter and honey into the flaming censer. Let it burn until the smoke disappears, and present it to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas."
"Drape flags and flower garlands on the four outer walls, and within the room where the platform is located, arrange images of the Tathagatas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions on the four walls."
"In the most prominent place, display images of Vairocana Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, Maitreya Bodhisattva, Akshobhya Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, and all the magnificent transformations of Avalokitesvara(Contemplator of the World's Sounds) Bodhisattva. To the left and right, place the Vajra-Treasury Bodhisattvas. Beside them display the Lords Shakra and Brahma, Ucchushma, and the Blue Dirgha, as well as Kundalin and Bhrukuti and all four Heavenly Kings, with Vinayaka to the left and right of the door."
"Then suspend eight mirrors in the space around the platform so that they are exactly opposite the mirrors on the platform. This will allow the reflections in them to interpenetrate infinitely."
"During the first seven days, bow sincerely to the names of the Tathagatas of the ten directions, the great Bodhisattvas, and the names of the Arhats. Throughout the six periods of the day and night, continually recite the mantra while circumambulating the platform. Practice the Way with a sincere mind, reciting the mantra one hundred and eight times in each session."
"During the second week, make the vows of a Bodhisattva with unwavering ceaseless intent. In my Vinaya, I have already taught about vows."
"During the third week, hold the Buddha's Patra mantra for twelve hours at a time with a single intent; and on the seventh day, the Tathagatas of the ten directions will appear simultaneously. Their light will inter-reflect in the mirrors, illumining the entire area; and they will rub the crowns of the practitioners' heads."
"Cultivating Samadhi like this in a Way-place, even in the Dharma-ending age one can study and practice until one's body and mind are as pure and clear as Vaidurya. Ananda, if any one of the Bhikshu's precept-transmitting masters or any one of ten Bhikshus in the same assembly is not pure, the Way-place as described will not be successful."
"After three weeks, sit upright and still for a hundred days. Those with sharp roots will not arise from their seats and will become Shrotaapannas. Although their bodies and minds have not yet attained the ultimate fruition of sagehood, they know for certain, beyond question, that they will eventually realize Buddhahood. You have asked how the Way-place is established. That is the way it is done."
Ananda bowed at the Buddha's feet and said, "After I left the home life, I relied on the Buddha's affectionate regard. Because I sought erudition, I still have not been certified to the unconditioned. When I encountered that Brahma Heaven Mantra, I was captured by the deviant spell; though my mind was aware, I had no strength to free myself. I had to rely on Manjushri Bodhisattva to liberate me. Although I was blessed by the Tathagata's holy mantra of the Buddha's crown and imperceptibly received its strength, I still have not heard it myself. I only hope that the Greatly Compassionate One will proclaim it again to kindly rescue all the cultivators in this assembly and those of the future in the paths of rebirth, so that they may become liberated in body and mind by relying on the Buddha's secret sounds."
(Shurangama Mantra:)
At that moment, everyone in the congregation bowed as one and stood waiting to hear the Tathagata's secret phrases. At that time, hundreds of sacrosanct light welled forth from the flesh-mound(usnisa) at the crown of the Bhagavan's head. A thousand-petaled precious lotus then welled forth from amidst those rays. Upon the precious flowers sat a nirmana(miraculously created) Tathagata. From the crown of his head ten beams of light radiated forth, each ray is composed of hundreds of treasure-rays. In each of those glowing rays, there were 10 ganges-river-sands Vajra-Secret-Trace-deities each holding aloft a mountain and wielding a pestle, occuping the whole universe.
(* ganges-river-sands: a measure of quantity, means "as many as sands in ganges-river")
The great assembly, gazing upward, felt fearful admiration and sought the Buddha's kind protection. Single-mindedly they listened to the holy Mantra that proclaimed by the Tathagata in the gloriously radiant light of the None-Can-See-The-Top Hallmark of the Buddha:
(* None-Can-See-The-Top Hallmark -- "usnisa-siraskata" in Sanskrit, the crown of Buddha. because it's too high and sacrosanct, no one can see its top.)
(Part I)
namo satata sugataya arhate samyak-sambuddhasya (1)
satata buddha koti usnisam (2)
namo sarva buddha bodhisattve-bhyah (3)
namo saptanam samyak-sambuddha koti-nam (4)
sa sravaka samgha-nam (5)
namo loke arhata-nam (6)
namo srota-apanna-nam (7)
namo sakrdagami-nam (8)
namo loke samyak-gata-nam (9)
samyak-prati-panna-nam (10)
namo deva-rsi-nam (11)
namo siddhya-vidya-dhara-rsi-nam (12)
sapa-anu graha-saha-samartha-nam (13)
namo brahma-ne (14)
namo indra-ya (15)
namo Bhagavate rudra-ya uma-pati saheyaya (16)
namo Bhagavate narayana-ya panca maha-mudra (17)
namas-krtaya (18)
namo Bhagavate maha-kala-ya (19)
tripura-nagara (20)
vidra-pana-karaya (21)
adhi-mukti (22)
smasana-nivasini (23)
matr-gana (24)
namas-krtaya (25)
namo Bhagavate tathagata kulaya (26)
namo padma kulaya (27)
namo vajra kulaya (28)
namo mani kulaya (29)
namo gaja kulaya (30)
namo Bhagavate drdha-sura-sena pra-harana-rajaya (31)
tathagata-ya (32)
namo Bhagavate amitabha-ya (33)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (34)
namo Bhagavate aksobhya-ya (35)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (36)
namo Bhagavate bhaisajya-guru vaidurya prabha raja-ya (37)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (38)
namo Bhagavate sam-puspita salendra raja-ya (39)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (40)
namo Bhagavate sakyamuni-ye (41)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (42)
namo Bhagavate ratna ketu raja-ya (43)
tathagata-ya arhate samyak-sambuddha-ya (44)
tebhyo namas-krtva idam Bhagavanas tathagata usnisam (45)
sitata-patram (46)
namo apa-rajitam prati-yangiram (47)
sarva bhuta graha nigrahaka kara-hani (48)
para vidya chedanim (49)
akala mri-tyu pari traya-na kari (50)
sarva bandhana moksani (51)
sarva dusza duh-svapna nivarani (52)
catura-sitinam graha saha-sranam vidhvam-sana kari (53)
asza vimsatinam naksa-tranam pra-sadana kari (54)
aszanam maha-graha-nam vi-dhvam-sana kari (55)
sarva satru nivaranam (56)
ghoram duh-sva-pnam ca nasani (57)
visa, sastra, agni, udaka, ranam (58)
apara-jita ghora maha-bala canda, maha-dipta maha-teja (59)
maha-sveta-jvala maha-bala pandara-vasini arya-tara (60)
bhri-kuzi ce va vijaya vajra-maletih (61)
vi-sruta padmakah vajra-jihvah ca mala ce va aparajita vajra-dandah (62)
visala ca santa, sveteva pujita sauma-rupah, maha-sveta arya-tara (63)
maha-bala apara vajra-samkala ce va vajra-kaumari kulam-dhari (64)
vajra-hasta ca vidya (65)
kan-cana mallikah kusum-bhaka ratna (66)
vairocana kuliya-ya artha usnisa (67)
vi-jrmbha mani ca vajra-kanaka prabha-locana (68)
vajra-tundi ca sveta ca kamala-ksah siasi-prabha (69)
ity-iti mudra ganah sarve raksam kurvantu iman mama asya (70)
(Part II)
Om rsi-gana pra-sastas tathagata usnisa (71)
hum trum jambhana (72)
hum trum stambhana (73)
hum trum para-vidya sam-bhaksana kara (74)
hum trum sarva dusza-nam stambhana kara (75)
hum trum sarva yaksa raksasa grahanam vi-dhvam-sana kara (76)
hum trum catura-siti-nam graha saha-sra-nam vi-dhvam-sana kara (77)
hum trum asza-vimsati-nam naksatra-nam pra-sadana kara (78)
hum trum asza-nam maha-graha-nam vi-dhvam-sana kara (79)
hum trum raksa raksa mam (80)
bhagavans tathagata usnisa (81)
praty-angire maha-sahasra bhuje sahasra-sirse koti-siata sahasra netre (82)
abhede jvalita-zazaka maha-vajrodara tri-bhuvana mandala (83)
Om svastir bhavatu mama iman mama-sya (84)
(Part III)
raja-bhayah cora-bhayah agni-bhayah udaka-bhayah visa-bhayah siastra-bhayah (85)
para-cakra-bhayah dur-bhiksa-bhayah asiani-bhayah akala-mrityu-bhayah (86)
dharani bhumi kampaka pata-bhayah ulaka-pata-bhayah raja-danda-bhayah (87)
naga-bhayah vidyud-bhayah suparna-bhayah (88)
yaksa-grahah raksasi-grahah preta-grahah pisaca-grahah bhuta-grahah (89)
kumbhanda-grahah putana-grahah kaza-putana-grahah (90)
skanda-grahah apa-smara-grahah unmada-grahah chaya-grahah revati-grahah (91)
jata-a-harinam garbha-a-harinam rudhira-a-harinam mamsa-a-harinam (92)
medha-a-harinam majja-a-harinam jata-a-harinim jivita-a-harinam pita-a-harinam (93)
vanta-a-harinam asucya-a-harinim citta-a-harinim (94)
te-sam sarve-sam sarva-graha-nam vidyam chedayami kilayami (95)
pari-vrajaka kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (96)
dakini-kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (97)
maha-pasupati rudra-kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (98)
narayana-kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (99)
tattva-garuda kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (100)
maha-kala-matri gana-kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (101)
kapalika kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (102)
jaya-kara madhu-kara sarva artha sadhaka kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (103)
catur-bhagini kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (104)
bhri-ngi-rizi nandike-svara gana-pati sahaya kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (105)
nagna-sramana kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (106)
arhanta kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (107)
vita-raga kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (108)
vajra-pani guhya guhya-kadhi-pati kritam vidyam chedayami kilayami (109)
raksa mam Bhagavan iman mama-sya (110)
(Part IV)
Bhagavans tathagata usnisa sitata-patra namo-stute (111)
asita na-la-rka prabha sphuza vi-kas sitata-patre (112)
jvala jvala, dara dara, bhidara bhidara, chida chida (113)
hum hum phat phat phat phat phat svaha hehe phat (114)
amogha-ya phat apratihata phat (115)
vara-prada phat ssura-vidrapaka phat (116)
sarva deve-bhyah phat, sarva nage-bhyah phat (117)
sarva yakse-bhyah phat, sarva gandharve-bhyah phat (118)
sarva asure-bhyah phat, sarva garude-bhyah phat (119)
sarva kimnare-bhyah phat, sarva mahorage-bhyah phat (120)
sarva raksase-bhyah phat, sarva bhute-bhyah phat (121)
sarva pisace-bhyah phat, sarva kumbhande-bhyah phat (122)
sarva manusye-bhyah phat, sarva amanusye-bhyah phat (123)
sarva putane-bhyah phat, sarva kaza-putane-bhyah phat (124)
sarva dur-langhite-bhyah phat, sarva dus-preksite-bhyah phat (125)
sarva jvare-bhyah phat, sarva apasmare-bhyah phat (126)
sarva sramane-bhyah phat, sarva tiri-thike-bhyah phat (127)
sarva utmadake-bhyah phat, sarva vidya raja-carye-bhyah phat (128)
jaya kara madhu kara sarva artha sadhake-bhyah phat (129)
vidya acarye-bhyah phat, catur-bhagini-bhyah phat (130)
vajra kaumari kulam dhari vidya raje-bhyah phat, maha praty-angire-bhyah phat (131)
vajra samkara-ya praty-angira rajaya phat (132)
maha-kala-ya maha-matri-gana namas-kritaya phat (133)
visnavi-ye phat, brahmani-ye phat (134)
agni-ye phat, maha-kali-ye phat (135)
kala-dandi-ye phat, indra-ye phat, matre-ye phat (136)
raudri-ye phat, camundi-ye phat (137)
kala-ratri-ye phat, kapali-ye phat (138)
adhi-muktaka smasana vasiniye phat (139)
ye-ke-citta, sattva-asya mama iman mama-asya (140)
(Part V)
dusza-citta, papa-citta, raudra-citta, vi-dvesa-citta, amitri-citta (141)
ut-pada-yanti kila-yanti mantra-yanti japanti juhanti (142)
oja-aharah garbha-aharah rudhira-aharah vasa-aharah (143)
majja-aharah jata-aharah jivita-aharah balya-aharah (144)
malya-aharah gandha-aharah puspa-aharah phala-aharah sasya-aharah (145)
papa-citta, dusza-citta, raudra-citta (146)
yaksa-grahah, raksasa-grahah, preta-grahah, pisaca-grahah (147)
bhuta-grahah, Kumbhanda-grahah, skanda-grahah, unmada-grahah (148)
chaya-grahah, apa-smara-grahah, daka-dakini-grahah, revati-grahah (149)
jamika-grahah, sakuni-grahah, raudra-matri-nandika-grahah, alamba-grahah (150)
hanu kantha-pani-grahah (151)
jvarah eka-hikah dvaiti-yakah traiti-yakah catur-thakah (152)
nitya-jvarah visama-jvarah vati-kah paitti-kah slai-smi-kah (153)
sam-nipati-kah sarva-jvarah siro-hrathi (154)
ardha-ava-badha-kah badha-aroca-kah (155)
aksi-rogam mukha-rogam hrid-rogam gala-graham karna-sulam danta-sulam (156)
hridaya-sulam marman-sulam parsva-sulam priszha-sulam udara-sulam kazi-sulam (157)
vasti-sulam uru-sulam nakha-sulam hasta-sulam (158)
pada-sulam sarva-anga-pratyanga-sulam (159)
bhuta vetada dakini jvarah dadrukah kanduh kizi bhah-lutah vaisarpah-loha lingah (160)
siastra-sana-gara visa-yoga agne udaka mara vaira kantara akala-mrityo (161)
tri-yambuka trai-laza vriscika sarpa nakula simha vyaghra riksa taraksa mara (162)
jivis te-sam sarve-sam (163)
sitata-patra maha vajro-snisam, maha-praty-angiram (164)
yavad-dva-dasa yojana abhy-anta-rena sima bandham karomi (165)
vidya-bandham karomi, tejo-bandham karomi para-vidya-bandham karomi (166)
tadyatha ( 167, Following is the Mantra-Heart: )
Om anale visade vira vajra-dhare bandha bandhani vajra-pani phat hum trum phat Svaha (168)
"Ananda, it is from this cluster of light atop the crown of the Buddha's head, the secret chant, Sitata-Patra, with its exquisite, wonderful compilation of phrases, that all the Buddhasof the ten directions come forth. Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions use this mantra-heart, they realize Unsurpassed, Proper, and All-pervading Knowledge and Enlightenment "Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions take up this mantra-heart, they subdue all demons and control all adherents of externalist ways."
"Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions avail themselves of this mantra-heart, they sit upon jeweled lotus-flowers and respond throughout countries as numerous as atoms of universe."
"Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions embody this mantra-heart, they turn the great Dharma wheel in worlds as numerous as atoms of universe."
"Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions hold this mantra-heart, they are able to go throughout the ten directions to rub the crowns of beings' heads and bestow predictions upon them. Anyone in the ten directions who has not yet realized the levels of sagely fruition, can receive predictions from these Buddhas."
"Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions are based in this mantra-heart, they can go throughout the ten directions to rescue beings from sufferings experienced in the hells, as hungry ghosts, as animals, or by being blind, deaf, or mute, as well as from the suffering of being together with those one hates, the suffering of being apart from those one loves, the suffering of not obtaining what one seeks, and the suffering of the raging blaze of the five skandhas. They can simultaneously liberate beings from both major and minor accidents. In response to their recitation, dangers involving bandits, armies, the law, or imprisonment; dangers involving wind, fire, and water; and dangers of starvation, thirst, or impoverishment are all eradicated."
"Because the Tathagatas of the ten directions are in accord with this mantra-heart, they can serve good and