Diamond Sutra Introduction

Diamond Sutra comes from Por Ler Philosophy Sutras. 

And all this sutra have 10 different kinds.

But together have 751 books.

600 Books belong to one kind which is called Greatest Por Ler

Por Le means Wisdom or to reach the final goal of life. Or to reach Nirvana or to be aware of the truth of life.

Por Ler basically means Wisdom for that.

So Greatest Wisdom, Greatest Por Ler. Sutra of 600 and Diamond Sutra is 577, near the end of Greatest Por Ler Sutras.

Buddha teaches philosophy to help people develop consciousness into a higher and higher level.

This Por Ler 751 are all mostly talking about the subject to be free from everything.

Which is to understand the essence.

And the essence has no form or any form we can aware of it.

In fact it is the power to be aware of any form.

So basically, because it has no form at all, they use ‘like empty’, or sometimes just directly say ‘Empty’.

Diamond Sutra is teaching you to live in the way of 6 Bodhisattva character and 4 Eternal Heart. To be aware the true essence, to understand that life is illusion. To be free from all the attachment and to reach enlightenment and back to the essence.

Because essence is so powerful. No beginning, No End. Cannot be destroyed, and cannot be created. Never appear and never disappear, It is Eternal.

So they use Diamond to represent how the strongest force of life is not everything we are aware, it’s the power we have, our consciousness.

Heart Sutra is the summary of the spirits of Diamond Sutra, like an addition to help Diamond Sutra clearer. So directly talk the Heart, heart is also the way to say Essence.

Our Heart is our awareness ability. It is consciousness. Which has no form.

So Diamond Sutra and Heart Sutra is really like 1 set. 

But Heart Sutra is like the centre spirits of Diamond Sutra.

And Diamond Sutra is the centre spirits of Greatest Wisdom (Greatest Por Ler) Sutra.

And Greatest Por Ler Sutra, book of 600 is the most important part, most important concept of this 751 Por Ler Sutra. It took 11 years to finish these 751 books.

There are 2 of the most amazing translations into China.

1 is Sheng Drang, 1 is Jo Morose. These 2 are famous genius Buddhism Monks. As children they can already remember 100,000 books, at 7 years old already concentrated to learn Buddhism. Whatever they read, they never forget. As kids already dedicate their heart in the monk system to help people learn Buddhism

Diamond Sutra is using the conversation style.

It’s mostly between Siddhartha Buddha and 1 of his 10 best students called Shi Pu Di.

From the conversation understand how we are to develop awaken heart, how we can develop sincere true heart, how we can clean out our dream illusion possessive searching blind heart.

And that why it is related to Heart Sutra. 

It’s all talk about how to develop Awaken Heart.

Diamond Sutra helps you to understand:

The true essence of life, and the truth of life.

Helps you understand your true heart, when it is out of pollution, what it should be, and help you clean out all the doubt you have in life.

Help you understand your Buddhahood, your true essence, and help you develop this essence into the final goal, the final meaning of life, to understand the true spiritual function of life, help you free from space and time, past, present, future heart. Aware there is no such timing, such a heart you can possessive of it.

Help you understand 4 elements are all empty, that they are temporary and come from all kinds of causation, and each causation comes from others, and because it comes from others it has no self.

Help you understand even the idea of Diamond Sutra itself, you have to understand but then let it go, hold nothing, because any idea you hold, means you already don’t understand it. Once you reach it you don’t hold it.

Help you aware empty is not something you can be possessive of either. It’s something your heart can see through the illusion and just be free being, not try to reach it, try to hold on it. 

Help you understand when your heart is Observing Self-Being then it will not be possessive towards anything. And aware whatever you observe is not your true self, then heart become free, understand the true heart is not any of what you observe. Through that to develop pure land, to develop 6 Bodhisattva characters to help every other life awaken but without ego.

Heart Sutra helps you to develop meditation, develop Zen, Zen lifestyle.

Because normal life you will not be.

Because of that our heart never feels secure.

And always in that level of trouble from fear.

But Zen, it means to stay in a pure stage of observing Self-Being. Observing all Life Being. To see through all the tricks, and be free from all the blind illusion. For that, the Heart becomes Diamond, so Powerful and No beginning, No End. Safe. Secure and Peace.

That Power you develop, the ability, is a Being. That’s why it called Zhen, it means steady. 100% steady and 100% pure observation. These two together create that meditation ability which is called Zhen.

When we cannot be awakened to be aware of our true self. Then there is no freedom. Because you can’t be your true self, how can you have freedom? Our heart is lost in blind possessive, and cannot even recognise how pure, how free it is, and that why there is no freedom.

But Diamond Sutra, is the language which develop all the Wisdom to help you see through all the blindness. But the ability you use to observe them, that ability is the true wisdom. Diamond Sutra is just the language wisdom and you use ability to observe that wisdom. That is called Observing Wisdom.

When you observe and observe, then the heart is united to all this wisdom, and all the language wisdom you truly observe and see through with eternal truth of life wisdom.

Then you will reach complete awakened wisdom.

So, the language itself is like a boat.

It is all to help you carry to the other side of the river, away from danger. But language, like the boat, you don’t carry once you reach the other side.

To truly sit on the boat and observe how to row the boat to the other side, that is our observing ability. Once you reach the other side, both language and observing wisdom will all become true awakened wisdom. You are already there, you are truly aware.

If your heart is pure, then everywhere is pure land. 

If your heart is awakened everything is awakened.

This is the introduction of Diamond Sutra.