{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb14_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb14_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_bb_bb14_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bb/bb14.htm","summary":"This is a philosophical-religious text from the *Lankavatara Sutra*, a foundational Mahayana Buddhist scripture presented as a dialogue between the Buddha (\"the Blessed One\") and the bodhisattva Mahamati. The text systematically outlines the path to \"self-realisation of Noble Wisdom\" (Transcendental Intelligence), arguing that ordinary intellectual discrimination must be transcended through a higher intuitive faculty that connects directly to Universal Mind. Four prerequisites for this attainment are enumerated: recognizing the world as mind-only, releasing notions of birth and death, accepting the egolessness of both persons and things, and understanding that true self-realisation is non-discriminative and identity-based rather than subject-object knowledge. A notable distinctive claim is the treatment of the \"One Vehicle\" (*Ekayana*): the Buddha explains he teaches multiple vehicles (paths) only as skillful expedients for those not yet ready, while the One Vehicle \u2014 attainable only in solitude and inner quiet \u2014 has never been fully realized even by great masters, only by Tathagatas themselves. The text is distinctive for its psychological depth, particularly its analysis of deep-seated attachments (greed, anger, infatuation rooted in discrimination and habit-energy) and the silkworm metaphor for how the ignorant enwrap themselves in their own discriminations.","tags":["Dwight Goddard","Taoism and Zen","Zen Buddhism"],"text":null,"title":"A Buddhist Bible: The Lankavatara Sutra: Chapter VII. Self-Realisation","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":2567}