観仏三昧海経 (Oceanic Samadhi Contemplating the Buddha Sutra?)

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観仏三昧海経 (Oceanic Samadhi Contemplating the Buddha Sutra?)

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Anyone know if there is an English translation?
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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The Sutra on the Ocean-like Samadhi of the Visualization of the Buddha - The Interfusion of the Chinese and Indian Cultures in Central Asia as Reflected in a Fifth Century Apocryphal Sutra
www.de.scribd.com/document/278127369/Th ... as-Reflect

Visualization/Contemplation Sutras
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/vie ... -div2-0001
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Cool. Not a translation, but very interesting links. Thanks, CM.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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You could ask Rev. Jikai Queequeg, as it's a Pure Land contemplation and Tendai keeps and practices Pure Land visualization meditations. He'd know
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The Tai-ching states "the women in the realms of Mara, Sakra and Brahma all neither abandoned ( their old) bodies nor received (new) bodies. They all received buddhahood with their current bodies (genshin)" Thus these verses state that the dharma nature is like a great ocean. No right or wrong is preached (within it) Ordinary people and sages are equal, without superiority or inferiority
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Thanks, Rory.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
-Guanding, Perfect and Sudden Contemplation,
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Queequeg wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2017 12:03 am Thanks, Rory.
glad to help & please share if there is something. I'm terribly interested, what a great topic!
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The Tai-ching states "the women in the realms of Mara, Sakra and Brahma all neither abandoned ( their old) bodies nor received (new) bodies. They all received buddhahood with their current bodies (genshin)" Thus these verses state that the dharma nature is like a great ocean. No right or wrong is preached (within it) Ordinary people and sages are equal, without superiority or inferiority
Paul, Groner "The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture"eds. Tanabe p. 58
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I am familiar with the text. Zhiyi makes use of it. To my knowledge there are no English translations unfortunately. But I'll ask around. Otherwise, I can add it to the ever-growing 'to-do list' of translations.
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You mean the Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra right? If so, BDK has a translation of it:

http://www.bdkamerica.org/book/pratyutp ... 1dhi-sutra
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SonamTashi wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:27 am You mean the Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra right? If so, BDK has a translation of it:

http://www.bdkamerica.org/book/pratyutp ... 1dhi-sutra
No, we are talking about the text named in the title of this thread: 觀佛三昧海經 The Contemplation of the Buddha Samadhi like the Sea Sutra.

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Jikai.
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"此妙法蓮花經者本地甚深之奧藏也"
( 法華玄義)

"觀心者空觀是般若假觀是解脫中觀是法身"
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jikai wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:51 am
SonamTashi wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:27 am You mean the Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra right? If so, BDK has a translation of it:

http://www.bdkamerica.org/book/pratyutp ... 1dhi-sutra
No, we are talking about the text named in the title of this thread: 觀佛三昧海經 The Contemplation of the Buddha Samadhi like the Sea Sutra.

Gassho,

Jikai.
Oh okay. The English titles are so similar (The Sutra of the Samadhi of Being in the Presence of All the Buddhas and Oceanic Samadhi Contemplating the Buddha Sutra) I thought it might be the same one, especially because Rory said it was a Pure Land contemplation. I was definitely confused as to why everyone was saying the Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra hadn't been translated into English.
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