Half 14-4
“If, within the closing 5 hundred years of the approaching world, a sentient being hears this sutra, believes in it, understands it, accepts it and upholds it, he would be the rarest.”
Commentary:
The explanation why a sentient being who, listening to this Sutra, believes in it, understands it, accepts it and upholds it, is the rarest, is that believing in, understanding, accepting and upholding this Sutra is so tough that it’s uncommon for a sentient being to take action. The core of Buddhism is Oneness, non-duality, which signifies that the whole lot is actually one though issues seem like many and totally different from one another. And the Oneness is known as the Buddha, the true-Self. What all of the Sutras, together with the Diamond Sutra, inform us is not any aside from this.
So, when all issues are one because the true-Self, this Sutra we’re studying now and we ourselves needs to be one with the true-Self. Then, there is no such thing as a distinction amongst this Sutra, the true-Self and us. Solely after we realise this may we be stated to have the ability to perceive, settle for and maintain this Sutra. After we learn this Sutra on this approach, in studying the phrases ‘he would be the rarest’, we should always be capable to see the true-Self in every phrase as an alternative of following the phrases that it’s so tough to just accept and maintain this Sutra that there are few who can do it.
Pupil: “How can I settle for this Sutra?”
Grasp: “I’m apprehensive that the ugliness of the household might be recognized to the surface.”
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