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Diamond Sutra – The Buddha eats

06/25/2013
06/25/2013

How do you approach food?  Do you love it, or do you hate it?  Some people like food so much that they develop strong attachment in eating, while others dislike food so much that they develop an aversion to eating.  The Buddha himself suggested the middle way:  After going through both extremes, as a prince and as an ascetic, He concluded that neither is the ultimate way, and resumed regular food intake after 6 years of ascetic practices.

In the beginning of this sutra, we can see the Buddha himself demonstrating the middle way as a normal human in the world: He works (sharing blessings in exchange for food), eats, cleans (washing feet), and rests (sit).  Here we see the same normalness as described by Laozi in Daodejing Chapter 70 – “saints can look like a normal person living a normal life, while living with wisdom and everlasting peace.”

Borrowing  and applying the famous Chinese cook Martin Yan’s famous phrase:  If the Buddha can eat, so can we!

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法会因由分第一

THE REASONS FOR THE DHARMA ASSEMBLY, ONE

如是我闻。一时佛在舍卫国。祗树给孤独园。与大比丘众。千二百五十人俱。尔时,世尊食时,著衣持钵,入舍卫大城乞食。于其城中,次第乞已,还至本处。饭食讫,收衣钵,洗足已,敷座而坐。
Thus I have heard. Once upon a time, the Buddha sojourned in the Jetavana park near Sravasti with an assembly of twelve hundred and fifty bhiksus. One day, at mealtime, the World Honored One put on His robe, took His bowl, and entered the great town of Sravasti to beg for His food. He had begged from door to door, He returned to His place. When He had taken His meal, He put away His robe and bowl, washed His feet, arranged His seat and sat down.

Tags: clean, eat, rest, work, 休息, 工作, 清洗, 进食
2 Comments/in Buddhist, Chinese Philosophy, Online Class, Spiritual Cultivation /by Derek
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  1. 妮姬 says:
    07/01/2013 at 02:30

    In Lao Zi’s Qing Jing Jing it is written… 夫人神好清, 而心扰.

    Do you think that both the Diamond Sutra and the Qing Jing Jing are telling us that we can live enlightened lives.. living in the world… only that we must train ourselves to not be distracted by the worldliness that so readily surrounds us.

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    • Derek says:
      07/01/2013 at 12:23

      Yes, Laozi and Buddha both taught us by example that life can be enlightened without the attachment to the self, which likes to entangled itself with the internal and external world for the sake of its own existence.

      What then, is the outcome of following the footpath of these two great masters? Everlasting love and peace in all.

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