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Diamond Sutra – understanding can be sudden, which sweeps away all mental blockages, practice is not sudden, which get perfected in stages

01/26/2014
01/26/2014

After expounding that real Buddha is beyond image and sound, the all compassionate Buddha reminds us that real Buddha does not mean no image and no sound either, and that we should not satisfy with just the proper understanding of truth and should diligently practice it in our life.

Why did the Buddha say so?  Because our mind likes to attach itself to dualistic opposites: when someone say of something, we immediately follows the “something”; when someone say of nothing, we immediately follows the “nothing”.  In reality, we are neither “something” or “nothing”, neither the content or context, neither the teaching or non-teaching, this is the essence of Zen (Chan).

Secondly, after getting the above proper understanding, it is tempting for our mind to declare victory and say that, ok,  we have got it now, we have arrive the final destination, and that there is no more work need to be done, nor anyone there to do anything anymore.   Is it really so?  Only your honest self could tell.  What we usually find in the history and even nowadays, is that many students and teachers had fallen into this side track understanding, became an “enlightened” person in understanding,  but lack honesty, virtue and diligent to make further progress (if not recline).  This is why the Buddha said while perfect appearance doesn’t necessary implies Buddhahood, to claim the lack of it (appearance an virtue) is Buddhahood is wrong either.

In actual practice, there are standard stages of transformation one would go through, which are reported by advanced masters across different traditions and geographical regions.   In the Buddhist tradition, a detailed report of truth and roadmap towards it is provided in the Shurangama Sutra (see suggested Buddhist readings).

Therefore, the Shurangama Sutra saids, “理即顿悟,   乘悟并消;事非顿除, 因次第尽” (understanding can be sudden, which sweeps away all mental blockages, practice is not sudden, which get perfected in stages).

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无断无灭分第二十七

NOT DESTROYED NOR ANNIHILATED, TWENTY-SEVEN

须菩提!汝若作是念:如来不以具足相故,得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。
须菩提!莫作是念:“如来不以具足相故,得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。”
“Subhuti, if you have ( in your mind) this thought: ‘The Tathagata does not rely on His possession of characteristics to obtain supreme Enlightenment,’
“Subhuti, banish that thought.

须菩提!汝若作是念,发阿耨多罗三藐三菩提心者,说诸法断灭。
莫作是念!何以故?
发阿耨多罗三藐三菩提心者,于法不说断灭相。
“Subhuti, if you think it while developing the Perfect Enlightenment Mind, you will advocate the annihilation of all Dharmas.
“Do not have such a thought. Why?
“Because one who develops the Supreme Enlightenment Mind, does not advocate the annihilation (of things).

2 Comments/in Buddhist, Chinese Philosophy, Online Class, Spiritual Cultivation /by Derek
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Diamond Sutra – Solid foundation leads to real faith

08/06/2013
08/06/2013

If you heard of teachings of this Sutra and there is a sudden realization and resonance in you which brings you faith in the truth described.  Congratulations!  Your good effort has led to right karma and wisdom which leads you to come in touch with this impenetrable wisdom.  Learn thoroughly what this Sutra has to offer, and use it to further your practice in your life.

Such was what happened to the Chinese Zen Buddhist Sixth Patriach Hui Neng.  As an uneducated woodcutter who had never heard of Buddhism in his life, one day when he past by a farm house and heard of someone chanting a phrase of the Diamond Sutra “应无所住而生其心 (let the mind abide in nothing – no things and no no-thing)“, there was a realization which initiated him to his later study and eventual succession of the tradition.

If you have not experience any particular reaction after hearing this sutra, don’t worry, it is already great karma, as will be described in later chapters, that you got to hear about it.  Stay put in your effort and your realization will come.

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PROPER FAITH IS RARE, SIX

须菩提白佛言:世尊!颇有众生,得闻如是言说章句,生实信不?
Subhuti said to the Buddha: “World Honored One, will there be living beings who can develop a true belief in these words, sentences and chapters when they are expounded to them?”

佛告须菩提:莫作是说。如来灭后,后五百岁,有持戒修福者,于此章句能生信心,以此为实,当知是人不于一佛二佛三四五佛而种善根,已于无量千万佛所种诸善根,闻是章句,乃至一念生净信者,
The Buddha said: “Subhuti, do not speak like that. In the last 500 years, before the final passing of the Tathagata, there will be those who will observe the rules of morality and perform good actions which will result in blessing. These people will be able to develop a faith in these sentences which they will consider as embodying the Truth. You should know that they will not have planted good roots in just one, two, three, four, or five Buddha lands. They will have planted them in countless thousands and tens of thousands of Buddha lands. Upon hearing these sentences, there will arise in them a single thought of pure faith.

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