As it should be

Author: Lu Jinchuan
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Why? The monks and laypeople throughout history who could not interpret the Diamond Sutra primarily failed to understand this: "Tathāgata." The scholars both within and outside China who could not clearly explain the Diamond Sutra also rooted their inability in their failure to comprehend this: "Tathāgata." What is a Tathāgata? This is what virtuous men and women who have generated the Bodhicitta must diligently contemplate and realize! Please listen closely: The explanation of the learned man who interprets the Diamond Sutra focuses on guiding scholars to contemplate and realize the mind seal of the Tathāgata, to enter into and understand the Dharma of the Buddha, rather than relying on literal interpretation, instilling concepts, or accumulating Buddhist knowledge. Therefore, in this explanation, the learned man often speaks spontaneously, offering timely guidance, so that whatever he says is often in response to the feelings, questions, minds, and opportunities of the scholars, thereby awakening, explaining, clarifying, and breaking through for them, leading them to wisdom and perfect realization. The Diamond Sutra is originally for those who realize the mind and verify the nature. It is the great mind seal of the Tathāgata's attainment and realization, as well as the nature and source of all sutras spoken by the Buddha. It is by no means something that worldly scriptures and teachings can use to point to the moon by analogy.