Wednesday, December 18, 2019

"Let's Delight in Reading 'THE CORE SUTRA' with the Angle to Enlightenment"


"Let's Delight in Reading 'THE CORE SUTRA' with the Angle to Enlightenment"



“Avalokita, The Holy Lord and Bodhisattva, was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond. He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and he saw that in their own-being they were empty. (by Edward Conze)


Tide over all hardship and misfortune......"


This is Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya sūtra that many can recite.  
However, it is about the conclusion a Bodhisattva has practiced and validated, 
not the course HE/SHE has moved in. 
Reciting a conclusion many times is not as good as finding the true course.


ZHANG, Cheng's annual book release in 2019 —— "THE CORE SUTRA, Essence of the Great Wisdom to Liberation" is THE PATH of enlightenment reconstructed by the Higher Spirit through modern language and situations.

Every age has its own sufferings and hardships.  
Present epidemic diseases, modern-day social issues ...... 
Why do most people get entangled?  
(Because) that "frames of mainstream knowledge" is exactly the "five heaps" that shroud us all in this age.  

How can we "look down from on high all the five heaps empty 
and tide over all hardship and misfortune" of the present day? 

The message in this book says that 
hiding in the illusion that "everything is empty" 
avoids no cause and effect of your repeated birth at the time. 

Only through more experiences of the frames (five heaps) can one go beyond any frame (of the five heaps) 
and find the freedom to balance off present maladies! 

Attaining this freedom only is the course to practice and validate that "all five heaps are empty", on which modern Bodhisattvas are walking.

How do we get a taste of the so-called "All dharmas are marked with emptiness"?  
In this book it says, when you truly understand that 
"only you yourself can save your self", 
then you truly realize "All dharmas are marked with emptiness".




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