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1 – 10 of 30 matches for diamond sutra

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Speaker

Year

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 1

This is the first in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

	01.	Introduction to the Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedika) - historical importance and importance in FWBO; 'Wisdom Beyond Words' (4:48)
	02.	The nature of the sutra; commentaries - Conze and Master Han Shan; structure (4:03)
	04.	Traditional versus contemporary western views of the sutra (3:18)
	05.	Reading the opening of the Diamond Sutra; reverence (4:07)
	07.	Blending the intellectual and the devotional; the setting of the sutra - simplicity and awareness (6:20)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 7

This is the seventh in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

	02.	The Buddha's question about merit; puja - making offerings and gratitude; the Mandala Offering; chod practice and the Heart Sutra (6:46)
	03.	Diamond Sutra logic; giving the Dharma - a quote from Sangharakshita, Wisdom Beoynd Words; the Bodhisattva as Dharma teacher (8:19)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 10

This is the last in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

	01.	How it can feel to be immersed in the Diamond Sutra - being well-humbled; Yuan Wu on diamond purification; Diamond 'Thought for the Day'; making the sutra part of your life; Wallace Stevens on the plain sense of things (12:19)
	05.	Letting the depths emerge; the last verses of the sutra - what is conditioned (samskrta)? (4:22)

The Diamond Sutra, Sangharakshita and Us: An Introduction

Bhante Sangharakshita described the Diamond Sutra as one of two books ‘by which I …

Satyalila

2019

01.

The Diamond Sutra, Sangharakshita and us: an introduction (51:11)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits (series)

This is a, dare we say it, "sparkling", wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on …

Padmavajra

2004

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 2

This is the second in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

05.

The Buddha's response; courteous dialogue; brief summary of chapters 3-5 of the sutra (2:40)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 8

This is the eighth in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

	01.	The first ending of the sutra; the path of emptiness and interconnectedness (4:44)
	04.	The story in the sutra; transmission, blessing and initiation (5:45)
	10.	Chapter 11 - demonstration and illumination of the sutra; the Buddha Mind - Dharmakaya; creating shrines and sacred places (3:17)

The Diamond Sutra

This is a gem of a talk from Abhaya. With his customary dry wit and sharp eye he leads us on the crazy paving path through …

Abhaya

2003

	02.	Three phases of Perfection of Wisdom (Prajna Paramita); cutting - the Vajracchedika; the Diamond Sword and the ordinary; Enlightenment here and now - the post office in Brundle (5:35)
	04.	Subhuti and the Buddha's dialogue - nonsense and abrogated logic; losing page 4 of the talk; the sutra as 'our sutra'; not rejecting the text (5:41)
	05.	Hooked by the sutra; 'Clouded Dragon' by Sangharakshita - the 'central silence'; text as zen master; text as Vajrapani (3:34)
	08.	Anutpattika-dharma-kshanti; a reading from the sutra - Irreversible Bodhisattvas; the 8th Bhumi - achala (immovable) (3:38)
	10.	Merit does not equal Insight - readings from the sutra (3:53)
	11.	Human and poetic touches; remembered echoes of early Buddhism; images at the end of the sutra (3:34)

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 4

This is the fourth in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

The Diamond Sutra - Taking Mind to its Limits: Talk 6

This is the sixth in a sparkling, wide-ranging, thoroughly comprehensive ten talk series by Padmavajra on 'The Diamond …

Padmavajra

2005

	01.	summary of the sutra so far (4:41)
	08.	Appreciating the sutra as useless; reading chapter 7 - the Buddha did not know or teach anything (7:10)

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