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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)
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)