The Diamond Sutra - spoken in English

[@michaelwood5611]

I am enlightened by the diamond sutra. I am enlightened by the Lotus sutra marvelous recitation I am enlighten period!!!

[@Sun-ng7gj]

Are you now?

[@Sun-ng7gj]

13:00

[@dandelong-yr4ci]

Who are you?

[@Revel136]

Wow no bullshit mode. Incredible. I listened to this about 8 times. It is the best diamond sutra. ❤

[@stargazeronesixseven]

Thank You So Much Good Dharma Brothers Alex Johnson & Chris Johnys for translating & tutoring this Extremely Rare & Precious Diamond Sutra That Cut Through All Delusions to us mere mortals ... May Good Dharma Brothers Alex & Chris be Blessed to NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA Pureland when the time has come ...

[@whitenoise5856]

This sutra is a diamond that cuts through all illusions. A precious gift from Buddha to humanity.

[@Soupywontondish]

Actually the original name is “The Sutra that can cut through the diamond” which means the wisdom of this sutra is so profound that it can cut through our illusions that’s as solid as a diamond .

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

The Buddha did not exist

[@taomaster2486]

@@TheGuiltsOfUs Buddha is name for enlightened being, its like saying cars never existed beacause cars are not the word car. You see?

[@MARCIA.ZZZZZZ]

@@taomaster2486 Thank you. I was contemplating how to respond but YOU did it for me already 😁

[@blueskies1237]

@@TheGuiltsOfUsactually you do not exist.

[@AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity]

Experiencing the #diamondsutra a.k.a., the words of the #Buddha is blowing my mind. Every time I listen to it. When I close my eyes, I believe I actually understand and realize the words spoken. But when I look at the text, objectively and apply my #logic, I can’t figure it out what he’s talking about . I can reflect, as this is the most profound #philosophical description of reality, comparable to contemporary descriptions coming from #quantumphysics, describing #quantumuniverse, and the true structure of #reality . I #recommend this #book #audiobook #literature as a principal tool for #spiritual transformation . #Bogoslowsky .🦁🤴 #spiritualjourney #spiritualawakening #spiritualgrowth #spiritualguidance .

[@williammartinactor]

I have made a commitment to listen to this amazing exquisite video once a day for the next 30 days. Thank you so much for this

[@andra1179]

Most modern spirituals must come to this video before the time of the death of the ego. You listen to someone say so many beautiful words and talk about bliss yet they still speak of an eternal self (a self lathered in voice, memories, ego bad and good). I sit quietly and i feel sad for the ones that waste their life not digging just an inch "deeper" and letting go of the final ego personality as its master, the "enlightened" self. Once you cross the river the raft is no longer of benefit, you must drag the raft on land rather than float on water.

[@bdeckerva]

But to whom are you feeling sorry for? Are they there? Or not there?

[@satatik21]

@@bdeckerva Bingo, but the Buddha can display compassion for illusory sentient beings while not straying from that realization.

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

A fabricated text - nothing more!

[@andra1179]

@@TheGuiltsOfUs Even fabricated text can lead one to truth. As all words are derived from language, which are produced by the mind. Don't mistake the finger pointing to the moon, as the moon itself.

[@jeffbstrong]

Is it not their journey?

[@Irish4746]

This sutra is a precious gift to humanity. Thank you for uploading. Bless all sentient beings.

[@namduong1000]

Golden Light Shrine Meditation Centre I

[@qriofficial1769]

not just sentient beings, all beings.

[@Flaytt744]

"Beings" is just a label. Like a Chariot is dependent on its parts.

[@TheGuiltsOfUs]

A fabricated text - nothing more!

[@HellerVali]

Orla.... Orla.... How are you💛💛💛?

[@karenmaggiano7103]

Thank you for not adding unnecessary music or reverb to the already perfect Diamond Sutra.

[@johnhowe9552]

Real talk

[@ramcesgaston5319]

My Tibetan Buddhist name is chumpa chogong given to me by shambala sunga. It the loving kind protector of the Dharma. This diamond sutra is about spiritual materialism. May all sentient beings witness this profound brilliant glory.

[@alvisc2002]

Hi guys a few quick crib notes below: 3:42 - no form or phenomenon (ego, personality, self, seperate person, universal self) 4:10 - Be detached(react calmly to highly emotional circumstances) when practicing compassion and charity without regard to appearances, without regard to form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or any quality of any kind. 6:08 - All forms are illusive and unreal. 7:54 - Discard all arbritrary notions of the existence of a personal self, of other people, or a universal self. But also discard any notions of the NON EXISTENCE of a personal self, other people or universal self. 8:30 - Discard not only all conceptions of your own selfhood, other selves, or universal self, but ALSO discard all notions of the non existence of such concepts. 9:03 - All of the above statements are like a Raft used to cross a river. Once the river is crossed (you realize you are in the state of enlightenment), you don't need to think about any of these ideas or concepts anymore. 9:37 - No indipendently existing object of mind called the highest most fulfilled enlightened mind. Because there are no seperate indipendent things. Neither is nor is it not. 10:34 - Enlightenment is realised through an internally intuitive process. (like laughing at a joke) 12:16 - A true disciple who enters the stream of enlightenment doesn't see himself as a seperate person entering any stream. He doesn't even consider the concept at all. He doesn't differentiate himself from others and has no regard for name shape sound odour taste touch or any quality can truly be called a disciple who's entered the stream. 12:55 - No passing away or coming into existence. There is no one returning and no one not returning. 14:31 15:18 - A paradise cannot be created nor can it not be uncreated ?? Develop a mind that is in no way dependent upon sites sounds smells tastes sensory sensations or any mental conceptions. Develop a mind that does not rely on anything. 22:44 - Buddhas discard all arbritary conceptions of form and phenomenon, transcended all perceptions, and penetrated the illusion of all forms. 24:34 - Disciples should leave behind all distinctions of phenomenon, and not allow the mind to be evoked by the senses, sound, odors, flavours, sensory touch or any other qualities. Stay indipendent of any thought that arises in your mind. 30:38 - Help lead all beings to the shore of awakening but after they have been liberated, know that in truth not a single being has been liberated. Because if a disciple cherishes the idea of a self, a person, a living being or a universal self, then that person is not an authentic disciple. Why? Because there is NO independently existing object of mind called the highest most fulfilled awakened mind. **33:15 - A true disciple knows that there is no such thing as a self, a person, a living being or universal self. All things are devoid of selfhood or individuality. 38:40 - When you attain perfect Enlightenment you will feel as if nothing has been acquired. You will come to the realization that you were always in that state. It is neither a high state or a low state. It's the state that you're in right now yet you don't have the wisdom yet to realize that you are already in it and were always in it. 39:45 - Be ethical and kind knowing there is no distinction between yourself and the selfhood of others. Practice kindness and charity without attachment. 48:53 - Your existence is very much like your existence in a dream. Your dream self is not the real you. It is a creation of your mind, much like all the objects and the people in that dream.

[@aryasamaya]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@myshadowkungfu]

All this means to me that...you listen to all but, at the same time you are listening, you are not listening, or are not paying attention to. This is because the mind knows what it needs now and what it will need later on the subconscious level. Therefore it will take what it needs, on the same subconscious level, and discard the rest. This is the same as the Christian belief of everything being predestined. I think this predestination means that if everything has a cause and effect, and this cause and effect are universal laws, then, with so many laws in motion at one time, those things that came before us are the reason these things happening now are happening, and why those things to come will happen because...they must. Christianity, Buddhism, the kybalion...tell use that what we see are the result of what we cannot see because we have closed our eyes to them. We cannot feel these things because we chose to feel instead the pleasures of the flesh.

[@WisdomOfInsecurity]

@@myshadowkungfu no no no no pls, it's not predestined, the mind is not something, the subconscious doesn't discard anything. You still dwell in concepts. Universal laws are a concept, in reality there is no you, there is no mind, there is no subconscious, but yet they are. But which quality do they have? They are a phenomenon themself, the stream of consciousness is not something separate from the whole panorama of experience, but don't take them for real structures of how reality is intrinsically really organized. You mind is organized that way, reality is what there it is and your mind is also what there is.

[@gameshark93]

Why do you seek to explain? Is merit not a concept in itself?

[@jalgaondance1631]

Thanks brother... Great and real understanding of the sutra in simple words..!

[@GonzointheSelf]

Thank you so much for posting. It is so much appreciated. Amitoufo. 🙏

[@bobjohnbowles]

Thank you for this recitation of a translation that avoids the flim-flam of Sanskrit transliterations.

[@Xvladin]

It just occurred to me that without this particular video uploaded to KZbin my life would be substantially different so I just wanted to take the time to thank you! What a rare and precious thing it is that you should deliver such a deeply profound teaching! 😁

[@cheyennealvis8284]

And BECAUSE it's on the internet, Chris will be entirely blessed BECAUSE any place where this sutra is listed to and read becomes a holy place. Meaning the entire planet is now a holy place.

[@MARCIA.ZZZZZZ]

That's so interesting 🤔. Did you hear this a long time ago? I wonder what would have been different. I'm not done listening but saw your response and was so curious.

[@kaysalshaar]

Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream. Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, or a flickering lamp. An illusion, a phantom. Or a dream. So is all existence to be seen.

[@mcabby6469]

Beautiful voice! Thanks!

[@lintommy1236]

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@prestonflatt]

Uplifted by this sutra.

[@gardensofthegods]

Thank you so much for taking all the time to put this video together for everyone

[@youlong1234]

Diamonddddd!!! Blessed with presence may you and all be!

[@SheilaXie]

Wonderful teaching! The Sutra recitation is so well done. I will listen to the recording on a daily basis.

[@LeHung-le1cq]

One day will lead you to the Patriarch Zen!

[@Cheezeakamp]

but do u hear it tho sheila listend for yrs n heard it not once

[@Cheezeakamp]

lol daily for yrs n still never heard

[@vaibhavg7139]

Good transaltion and a clear reading. Easy to listen and meditate to. Thank you 🙏

[@sarantsatsralbuyan]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️👍 May all sentient beings get enlightened! Om muni muni maha muni e svaha!

[@Subhuti.]

My favorite sutra. Buddha bless.

[@susielee8101]

Excellent translation of the Diamond Sutra! Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@MassiveLib]

Excellent translation. If Buddhists truly understood these words it would change Buddhism forever.

[@mikecee7064]

This is amazing ! Listening to this and getting a chill down my spine. So profound

[@Cheezeakamp]

ur enlightend now

[@Cottonhood]

Thus ye shall think of all this fleeting world A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer sky, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream.

[@charleshorch7377]

And the sage at peace is not born, does not age, does not die; he is not shaken and is not agitated. For there is nothing present in him by which he might be born. Not being born, how could he age? Not aging, how could he die? Not dying, how could he be shaken? Not being shaken, why should he be agitated? Deep awareness of this truth ends our suffering.

[@pleromicpastry5445]

because 'he' doesn't exist.

[@Koort1008]

@@pleromicpastry5445 Indeed. Unborn.

[@Koort1008]

"So I say to you-This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. "So is all conditioned existence to be seen." Thus spoke Buddha.

[@yehudahhachassid6191]

Om Buddhaya Namah ! May all beings be happy! Thank you for this wonderful video that brings peace and joy to the heart and illumination to the mind. Bodhi Swaha!

[@derekkase7884]

Om namo budai Ommm...swaha

[@derekkase7884]

Om namo budai Ommm..swaha

[@Flaytt744]

Brilliant translation

[@lotus7089]

It is a very clear and focused presentation. Thankyou for this blessing

[@isaiahharrell20]

Please do more sutras! Your voice is very relaxing!

[@jackychick]

this is the path of becoming God... Listening to this and ask why would any religions even fight against one another. These words are really the truths. I am a practitioner of I Ching and have gotten the same fortunate answer over and over again for asking if this sultra is real and useful. This is also extremely useful for cleansing and protection from evils (purify your soul) when reading this sultra.

[@winphet]

"this is the path of becoming God... Listening to this and ask why would any religions even fight against one another. " All this sentence it is talking about ego or illusion, and that is the answer.

[@HellerVali]

Only 6 minutes until new year. I am listening between 2022 and 2023.happy new year!

[@samusicnewsmagazine]

You have reached South Africa ! #blessings Thank you for seeking me out and sharing this with me at the precise time it became relevant and needed. "When the student is ready the teacher appears " Thank you

[@basho345]

excellent presentation! clearly said. precise. well timed. thank you.

[@isaiahharrell20]

Thank you so much for this upload, I listen to it daily! Such a blessing to find!

[@jaijaiseetaram]

Please do more sutras.

[@stevebarber8501]

I am so grateful that I have been exposed to this beautiful Sutra. The performer who read this did it great Justice. Thank you.

[@oCurio4]

This sutra is speaking what is unspeakable, it has a certain jist to it. Very nice.

[@josephisraelyehudah3401]

Diamond rendition of The Diamond Sutra!

[@Houndboundhellhound]

Thank you to both Chris and Alex for this gift, and all of you here as Well!

[@jamievanharen3925]

This and the Lotus Sutra are life changing. 😍❤️

[@scorpiosky27]

What a beautiful translation. Thank you.

[@templeofsticks8091]

Nicely read. Thank you for making this recording.

[@nickhayes4742]

Just read and listened to the whole upload. The end of the Sutra. Wow.

[@tomato1040]

Buddha is right; there is, ''No Teaching'', only Direct Experience.Namaste', B'right N🌞W ! Shine🎺on, Hu crazy💎Diamond💍. Practice🎼Discretion in the🌌Boundless of, no boundaries & no other teachers!😮

[@jeffbstrong]

For me, this is “unteaching”

[@aarontamaddon9417]

Thank you

[@PaulLangan1]

Chapter 10, What do you think, Subhūti," When I was in a previous life, as Dīpankara Buddha did I receive any definite teaching or did I attain any degree of self-control, whereby I later became a Buddha"? No honorable one, "When you were a disciple of Dipankara Buddha in truth, you received no definite teaching nor did you attain any definite degree of self-control".

[@Gesssy]

No self to attain anything

[@kristofvanhooymissen7785]

Beautiful

[@AndreyBogoslowskyNewYorkCity]

Last night, once again, it was in the morning at 5 a.m., once again I listened to a “diamond sura” principle book of #Buddhism that I've been studying for 30 years. and I repeated it aloud: -I don't understand it! I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand anything. After the third time I listened to this #audiobook , after 30 years, studying this #book, I thought and reflected on it my way! I recorded a video for 3 minutes, as I understand the “#Diamond #Sutra “ Yes! I, Andrey #Bogoslovsky, I understand the #diamondsutra what this monk says, is #real #true, and #absolute #truth . As in the words of Buddha -“If I/anyone, someone understand one/one paragraph from his book, -“diamond sura”, if I explain this paragraph to one person, yes, one person, one paragraph! That means that I'm eternal! Immortal ! that I will no longer be reborn reincarnated No more stinky Earth or any other stinky location! No more! I will sit at one table with God after I die! I am #bogoslowsky ♾️🧬❤️🤴 .

[@tommyreyes7033]

Buddha gift to the world "Diamond Sutra"

[@buddhafarms-sustainability1277]

In the Heavens and Upon the Earth I alone Am the World Honored One...Namaste 🙏

[@sunliqi617]

So nicely read. Thank you so much!

[@annecox4372]

Beautiful!!!

[@charleshorch7377]

A lot of time, if you buy the diamond Sutra a paperback in a bookstore or online, you also get along with the diamond Sutra a second suture called the "Sutra of Hui Neng.". Hui Neng was the sixth patriarch of China. Bodhidarma the 1st. Queen dang was illiterate and very poor taking care of his mother. He was eventually discovered by two monks reciting the diamond Sutra near his house. The two monks knew that he knew the secret of the diamond Sutra or the meaning of the diamond Sutra. The monastery paid for the care of his mother who was sick. He named was welcomed into the monastery. After a while the fifth patriarch of China new that he named was the one who knew and decided to make him the six Patriark of China. It was in the Third Watch of the night when the fifth patriarch gave hui neng thr lineage of the 6th patriarch. Because he was in danger from the other monks, he left at midnight or maybe 3 in the night I don't know and what not seen for a long time I think about 1 year later he was seen teaching and practicing and being the six patriarch in China. I will try to get the suture of weed name on KZbin and post it here if I can. Sorry processor

[@Kovenmx]

Thus have you heard right?

[@bull1234]

"Phenomenon; transitory, illusionary, and beyond our control."

[@jeanhelms2621]

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

[@Xvladin]

Even the concept of losing!

[@369marnie]

Thank you Kris Kristofferson/Fred Foster (KK/FF/JJ) Hi J.Joplin 💙🙏🏼💙

[@tommyreyes7033]

Letting go of ego, brings freedom and liberation = Bliss, Buddha land in this very moment . All humans have Buddha nature 🤣🤣

[@mississippimoondog]

Freedom means having the balls to do what ever you want to do

[@saraondo2698]

This sutra is so profound .Like a seed planted in my heart/ mind fertilized by samsara in a medium of simple, nondualty.

[@KimNguyen-iz1pt]

Thank you 🙏 Listening over and over again , i deeply 🙏

[@dayveda3736]

This goes great with the sayings of the Buddha. Dignity, Respect, Civility.

[@cheyennealvis8284]

I don't know who chris jonny's is, but for what he has done, he will get a Billion Merits of positive karma and blessings for each Billion of His Lifetimes. May he have blessings Unattainable by most Men, And Women. May he be born as the Next awakened buddha. And may he bless and enlighten. May he speak, preach and awaken, and may he bring this world this solar system, this small universe, this galaxy, this multiversal universe, among the Countless other universes, and even the Non existence of such universes... May he Bring them ALL to you and us, with a Countless number of Positivity, Light, great Karma and Merits,.. and Love, Gratitude, kindness, and Love, AS ONE. And Together.

[@siewkonsum7291]

Summarize, condense and crystallize the whole Diamond Sutra - it's just ONE word : NON - ATTACHMENT! 🙏

[@v8isgross]

This is an excellent translation!

[@jeffbstrong]

Thank you for this precious gift! It is doing some weird stuff to this mind.

[@yanbibiya]

Very well read very helpful in practice of all truly motivated devotees and disciples. Thank you. From a devotee of Avatar Adi Da DA DA DA

[@jacquelineannepoitras4053]

Intuitive And Spontaneous Nature

[@michaels5251]

If you did not laugh, it would not be the Tao

[@Georgious]

I absolutely love this ! I've listened to it so many times (downloaded it i'm sorry) your really good at this But I would love to hear you read another sutra , have you thought about reading another one?

[@gameshark93]

To share Dharma is to drink water. Why apologize when you can share water with all?

[@xinl.4393]

excellent work, thanks very much!

[@NaturalEarthTones]

Ty for uploading ❣🙏🏼

[@regulator9leorise629]

Peace and High Things to those who this finds 🤲🏾✨❤️

[@twt-1475]

Just a suggestion to Chris Johnys. If the reading of the Sutra can be slower and given longer pauses between chapters, so that listeners can have just a bit more time to ponder in between statements and chapters, it would make the recording ideal. There are also sections of the Sutra where the reading was too rushed or moved on too quickly, giving the impressions that the messages just read weren't by themselves worth pondering and that the listeners should just focus on the new messages that are coming up.

[@CJohnys]

Lotus T - there's a pause button. lol.

[@CJohnys]

but thank you!!!!

[@CJohnys]

I guess that I got carried away. But the actual text is available online for those who wish to read it and ponder..

[@aryasamaya]

Lotus T slow it down

[@jeanhelms2621]

In the upper right are either 3 dots or a gear wheel. Tap this to get a drop-down list of options. The last option on the drop down list is “playback speed.” I always change it from “normal” to .75 speed.

[@reoire843]

FYI, there is a little audio glitch around 33:10 where the sentence cuts off

[@DanielRamBeats]

One of the most important texts wow

[@st2559]

How do you view the Tathagata? Vimalakirti Sutra Chapter 12 - Vision of the Universe Abhirati and the Tathagata Aksobhya Thereupon, the Buddha said to the Licchavi Vimalakirti, "Noble son, when you would see the Tathagata, how do you view him?" Thus addressed, the Licchavi Vimalakirti said to the Buddha, "Lord, when I would see the Tathagata, I view him by not seeing any Tathagata. Why? I see him as not born from the past, not passing on to the future, and not abiding in the present time. Why? He is the essence which is the reality of matter, but he is not matter. He is the essence which is the reality of sensation, but he is not sensation. He is the essence which is the reality of intellect, but he is not intellect. He is the essence which is the reality of motivation, yet he is not motivation. He is the essence which is the reality of consciousness, yet he is not consciousness. Like the element of space, he does not abide in any of the four elements. Transcending the scope of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind, he is not produced in the six sense-media. He is not involved in the three worlds, is free of the three defilements, is associated with the triple liberation, is endowed with the three knowledges, and has truly attained the unattainable. "The Tathagata has reached the extreme of detachment in regard to all things, yet he is not a reality-limit. He abides in ultimate reality, yet there is no relationship between it and him. He is not produced from causes, nor does he depend on conditions. He is not without any characteristic, nor has he any characteristic. He has no single nature nor any diversity of natures. He is not a conception, not a mental construction, nor is he a nonconception. He is neither the other shore, nor this shore, nor that between. He is neither here, nor there, nor anywhere else. He is neither this nor that. He cannot be discovered by consciousness, nor is he inherent in consciousness. He is neither darkness nor light. He is neither name nor sign. He is neither weak nor strong. He lives in no country or direction. He is neither good nor evil. He is neither compounded nor uncompounded. He cannot be explained as having any meaning whatsoever. "The Tathagata is neither generosity nor avarice, neither morality nor immorality, neither tolerance nor malice, neither effort nor sloth, neither concentration nor distraction, neither wisdom nor foolishness. He is inexpressible. He is neither truth nor falsehood; neither escape from the world nor failure to escape from the world; neither cause of involvement in the world nor not a cause of involvement in the world; he is the cessation of all theory and all practice. He is neither a field of merit nor not a field of merit; he is neither worthy of offerings nor unworthy of offerings. He is not an object, and cannot be contacted. He is not a whole, nor a conglomeration. He surpasses all calculations. He is utterly unequaled, yet equal to the ultimate reality of things. He is matchless, especially in effort. He surpasses all measure. He does not go, does not stay, does not pass beyond. He is neither seen, heard, distinguished, nor known. He is without any complexity, having attained the equanimity of omniscient gnosis. Equal toward all things, he does not discriminate between them. He is without reproach, without excess, without corruption,without conception, and without intellectualization. He is without activity, without birth, without occurrence, without origin, without production, and without nonproduction. He is without fear and without subconsciousness; without sorrow, without joy, and without strain. No verbal teaching can express him. "Such is the body of the Tathagata and thus should he be seen. Who sees thus, truly sees. Who sees otherwise, sees falsely."

[@JinvictoriaYuan]

I really love it so I just wanted to take the time to thank you! Where can I read the transcript？I want to recite everyday.

[@erangaabeywardana1]

Wondefully done....

[@lyfxyz12]

Hi , will you do other sutras as well in the future?

[@ShaneNull]

have you considered doing this with the heart sutra or lotus sutra?

[@jeanhelms2621]

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to prove.

[@MikeGsaxman]

Emaho! 🙏☸🙏

[@dashokunzangwangdi]

I get the impression that the conversation refers to a separate text called diamond sutra.

[@cheyennealvis8284]

At 3:20 it's "LIBERATED" guys. KZbin skipped due to upload issues I think. On KZbin(google side).

[@jeanhelms2621]

The word I'm looking for is "gratitude," I think. :)

[@PaloukaMan]

It’d be so helpful if there’s subtitles too ! So we’d follow + chant at the same time Thank you ! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@myshadowkungfu]

The Buddhist practice of begging for alms was, I think, for the main purpose of showing God the goodness of the people, who recognize the closeness of their own lives to the beggar. A beggar could not go to knock on the rich mans door without being looked down on and told to move on with their “are they my poor” attitudes. ...

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

[@dashokunzangwangdi]

This is text which we were made as children to practice reading Ura village bumthang. I did wonder why this text and no other. The other text happened to be Heart sutra that we were made to learn by heart and this is one of the text recited as curative of illnesses. I begin to learn what these text are a little now with KZbin recordings by different practitioners and students. There is more to learn.....

[@nickscurvy8635]

This is a great performance of the sutta. The only advice I would have given the performer is to pause more between the call and response. It sounds like it's all one drawn out sentence.

[@kbgirel6965]

Hi there dose anyone know whither this sutra is available in Tripitaka as well Thank you so much

[@thomasklugh4345]

Notes: 0:00 - Chap. 1. 3:08 - Chap. 3. Sutra Begins.

[@majormishmash1845]

Man like 'Serbooty' got lectured hard still.

[@michaeltheisen]

Sir Booty, hard. As a diamond.

[@jaijaiseetaram]

This translation uses "universal self' instead of life. can anyone further expound the meaning of that original word and it's usage in Pali?

[@KaviKarnapuraDasa]

In what is understood to be the original Sanskrit version of this sutra, the word translated as "universal self" by Alex Johnson is "pudgalasaṃjñā". You can read more about the term and its philosophical significance here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudgalavada

[@ekbergiw]

When all is stripped away there is still a small fire at the center of the chest.

[@alankuntz6494]

that could be gas ;)

[@qriofficial1769]

16:49: philosophical question about the immensity of merit and compassion subhuti: yes, indeed, they would acquire great merit me: the number of treasures in those galaxies would be equal to seven times the number of grains of sand in as many ganges rivers as there were grains of sand in one, which would be equal to that number squared lol

[@nguyenthaitri5007]

Diamond sutra is hard and profound, the way to understand the sutra I usually do is to read/ recite the sutra because the sutra has a power merits that change my life and I can understand each sentence of the sutra by remembering it and reciting diligently. Hope this helps you. Om Mani Padme Hum.

[@elvispacheco5393]

Om may all find true happiness of the 3rd channo...

[@nyenye1291]

Thank you!

[@guynouri]

Excellent

[@johnpfmcguire]

For something that repudiates all ego, the book sure has a high opinion of itself

[@mkp108]

Repudiation of the false notion of a separate self yields the high vision presented in the sutra.

[@michaels5251]

We shouldn't find fault in others but take care of our own practice. Yeah this translation sounds a bit pretentious but he's giving it his best