• Awakened is only in the present
• Every second is valuable to become more awakened to enjoy life.
• 6 senses - Focus all senses into Bowing
  • Purify through Sight
    • Look at statue or use 3rd eye
    • Clean your place
  • Purify through Sound
    • Mantra
    • Hear the words you say
    • Purify your own speaking
  • Smell
    • Spiritual smell
    • Showering
  • Taste
    • Brush
  • Touch
    • No tension
    • Good condition
    • Shower and fresh
    • Feel foot - lotus in all joints
  • Memory
    • Dharma joy awakening
    • Observing Dharma feeling
    • Bring pure energy back
    • Sifu sky move
  • Thinking
    • Read philosophy
    • Try and recall it
    • Repeat Buddha name - not follow blind thinking
• Meditation
  • Not really train body to become Buddha, train consciousness to become Buddha
  • Surangama Sutra
    • 2 best techniques
      • One is train own power to become a Sifu / bright lights to see direction, goal Taiji
      • One is to train connection to Buddha
      • Listening
        • Observing listening always there
        • Observe the observer
      • Bow to any Buddha Pure Land
        • Get help double will technique

Surangama Sutra – Final Two Meditation Techniques (of the 25):

24. Observing Life Sound Bodhisattva （觀世音菩薩）

Also known as Avalokiteshvara or Guanyin.

• Method: Turns the hearing inward. Begins by hearing external sound, then turns awareness to the hearing faculty itself, detaching from objects.
• Key Principle: Awareness is not bound to sound; sound is conditioned, but the nature of hearing is constant and unchanging.
• Process:
  1. Listen to sounds without chasing or rejecting them.
  2. Then forget the sounds and attend to the hearing faculty.
  3. Then even forget the hearing and abide in pure awareness.
  4. Duality dissolves; subject and object disappear.
• Result: Entry into samadhi through reversing the flow of perception. Leads to non-arising, great compassion, and the perfection of all senses.
• Special Note: The Buddha praises this as the supreme method suitable for beings of this world.

Quotes

“Thereupon Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva rose... and declared: I still remember that long before aeons countless as the sand grains in the Ganges, a Buddha called Avalokiteśvara appeared in the world. When I was with Him, I developed the Bodhi Mind and, for my entry into Samādhi, I was instructed by Him to practise meditation by means of the organ of hearing. At first by directing the organ of hearing into the stream of meditation, this organ was detached from its object, and by wiping out (the concept of) both sound and stream-entry, both disturbance and stillness became clearly non‑existent. Thus advancing step by step both hearing and its object ceased completely, but I did not stop where they ended. When the awareness of this state and this state itself were realized as non‑existent, both subject and object merged into the void, the awareness of which became all embracing. With further elimination of the void and its object both creation and annihilation vanished giving way to the state of Nirvāṇa which then manifested. Suddenly I leaped over both the mundane and supramundane, thereby realizing an all‑embracing brightness pervading the ten directions, and acquired two unsurpassed (merits)….”

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“I entered into the stream of the self‑nature of the sense of hearing, thereby eliminating the sound of what was heard. Now proceeding from this stillness, both sound and silence ceased to arise. Advancing in this way, both hearing and what was heard melted away and vanished. When hearing and what is heard are both forgotten, then the sense of hearing leaves no impression in the mind.” 

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“I began with a practice based on the enlightened nature of hearing. First I redirected my hearing inward in order to enter the current of the sages. Then external sounds disappeared. With the direction of my hearing reversed and with sounds stilled, both sounds and silence ceased to arise. So it was that, as I gradually progressed, what I heard and my awareness of what I heard came to an end. Even when that state of mind in which everything had come to an end disappeared, I did not rest. My awareness and the objects of my awareness were emptied, and when that process of emptying my awareness was wholly complete, then even that emptying and what had been emptied vanished. Coming into being and ceasing to be themselves ceased to be. Then the ultimate stillness was revealed. All of a sudden I transcended the worlds of ordinary beings, and I also transcended the worlds of beings who have transcended the ordinary worlds. Everything in the ten directions was fully illuminated, and I gained two remarkable powers. First, my mind ascended to unite with the fundamental, wondrous, enlightened mind of all Buddhas in all ten directions, and my power of compassion became the same as theirs. Second, my mind descended to unite with all beings of the six destinies in all ten directions such that I felt their sorrows and their prayerful yearnings as my own.”

25. Great Strength Bodhisattva （大勢至菩薩）

Also known as Mahāsthāmaprāpta.

• Method: Mindfulness of the Buddha (念佛), also called Pure Land practice.
• Key Principle: Focuses all mental energy on reciting and remembering the Buddha’s name (Amitabha), until mind and Buddha become one.
• Process:
  1. Recite and remember the Buddha’s name single-mindedly.
  2. As thoughts settle, the mind merges with Buddha’s mind.
  3. Ultimately, no duality—pure awareness arises.
  4. Enter samadhi through remembrance and surrender.
• Result: Clear mind, radiant presence, access to the Pure Land in this life or upon death.

“Beings who are always mindful of the Buddha, always thinking of the Buddha, are certain to see the Buddha now or in the future. They will never be far from Buddhas, and their minds will awaken by themselves without any special effort. Such people may be said to be adorned with fragrance and light, just as people who have been in the presence of incense will naturally smell sweet. The basis of my practice was mindfulness of the Buddha. I became patient with the state of mind in which no mental objects arise. Now when people of this world are mindful of the Buddha, I act as their guide to lead them to the Pure Land. The Buddha has asked us how we broke through to enlightenment. In order to enter samādhi, I chose no other method than to gather in the six faculties while continuously maintaining a pure mindfulness of the Buddha. This is the best method.”

“On the causal ground I used mindfulness of the Buddha to enter into patience with the non‑production of dharmas. Now in this world I gather in all those who are mindful of the Buddha and bring them back to the Pure Land.” 

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“Beings who are always mindful of the Buddha, always thinking of the Buddha, are certain to see the Buddha now or in the future. They will never be far from Buddhas, and their minds will awaken by themselves without any special effort. Such people may be said to be adorned with fragrance and light…” 

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