阿難 由因世界 虛妄輪迴 動顛倒故 和合氣成 八萬四千 諸亂想中 如是故有 卵羯邏藍 流轉國土 魚鳥龜蛇 其類充塞 由因世界 雜染輪迴 欲顛倒故 和合滋成 八萬四千 橫竪亂想 如是故有 胎遏蒲曇 流轉國土 人畜龍仙 其類充塞 阿難是等 皆是覺明 明了知性 因了發相 從妄見生 山河大地 諸有爲相 次第遷流 因此虛妄 終而復始
ā nán yóu yīn shì jiè xū wàng lún huí dòng diān dǎo gù hé hé qì chéng bā wàn sì qiān zhū luàn xiǎng zhōng rú shì gù yǒu luǎn jiē luó lán liú zhuǎn guó tǔ yú niǎo guī shé qí lèi chōng sè yóu yīn shì jiè zá rǎn lún huí yù diān dǎo gù hé hé zī chéng bā wàn sì qiān héng shù luàn xiǎng rú shì gù yǒu tāi è pú tán liú zhuǎn guó tǔ rén chù lóng xiān qí lèi chōng sè ā nán shì děng jiē shì jué míng míng liǎo zhī xìng yīn liǎo fā xiàng cóng wàng jiàn shēng shān hé dà dì zhū yǒu wéi xiàng cì dì qiān liú yīn cǐ xū wàng zhōng ér fù shǐ
Key Message
Cyclic existence is not created by an external force but by one's own deluded clinging. The moment one sees the root of that clinging, cyclic existence begins to end.
▸Volume Ten, the grand finale of the Śūraṃgama Sūtra, explains the 'twelve classes of beings' (十二類生) — the twelve types of life forms cycling through saṃsāra.
Volume Ten, the grand finale of the Śūraṃgama Sūtra, explains the 'twelve classes of beings' (十二類生) — the twelve types of life forms cycling through saṃsāra. Egg-born, womb-born, moisture-born, transformation-born, with form, without form, with thought, without thought, neither with nor without thought, having form with āsravas, having form without āsravas, and without āsravas — all twelve modes of existence are shown to arise from 'luminous awareness' (覺明): from the originally luminous awakening, deluded perception (妄見) arises in a distorted way, and from that, mountains, rivers, the great earth, and cyclic existence are formed. This explanation is simultaneously a cosmology and a soteriology — showing that the root of all cyclic existence lies in deluded attachment, and that seeing this root of attachment is the beginning of liberation.