Zen Buddhism is often said to be a practice of "mind-to-mind transmission" without reliance on texts -- in fact, some great teachers forbid their s...
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Dec 16, 2011
Silvio
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This book starts with a translation of the Diamond Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. The rest includes some commentary of the author's own, with liberal quotations from other commentaries and from other Buddhist and Daoist writings that have something to do with the point. The sutra is the Buddha's talk with one of his disciples about how bodhisattvas should think. It taught me that the basic idea that seems so central to Zen and so weird to me, that nothing is true or false, is not unique to i
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Mar 02, 2011
Chet
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A sutra is a summary of something which can be relatively easily memorized, kind of like a poem. This is a discussion of a sutra of a gathering of Buddhists who are talking about philosophical issues. For example, "If there were as many rivers as there are grains of sand in the great river of Ganges, would the number of grains of sand in all those rivers be great?" Kind of like, "Are there different levels of infinity?" Although I think that there are benefits of Buddhism
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Oct 23, 2009
Splashconception
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fucking confusing and very scholarly and yet a very definitive exploration of this central buddhist text which is essentially a two thousand year old treaty on the theory of relativity and its application to the notion of saintliness and charity, contains both Sanskrit, Japanese and Chinese translations.
Apr 17, 2011
Racquel
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Very thought provoking. I have to read it again to more thoroughly digest.
Oct 22, 2008
Joel
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A thorough commentary of the Diamond Sutra. Well written and thoroughly enjoyable.
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