The Diamond Cutter Sutra chanted

The Diamond Sutra (Sanskrit: Vajracchedika Prajñaparamita Sutra, Diamond-cutter Perfection of Greater Wisdom Sutra) is a key Mahayana sutra that is widely recited and chanted, especially in east asia. It is one of the central texts in Zen Buddhism. 'Vajracchedika' can be translated as Diamond-cutter or Thunderbolt cutting. It is so named because its teaching is supposed to cut through worldly illusion to illuminate reality. 'Prajñaparamita' is usually translated as 'Perfection of transcendent wisdom' and is a compound of Prajña (greater wisdom, higher understanding, supreme discernment) and Paramita (excellence, perfection, transcendent virtue). The Sutra focuses on the nature of emptiness (Shunyata). Generally, the concept of emptiness or voidness refers to the fact that all phenomena (Dharmas) are dependently originated (Pratityasamutpada) and devoid of any permanent, inherent essence or substance (Svabhava). To say that phenomena are dependently arising is to say that all phenomena are constantly arising together and passing away in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect. Therefore the emptiness of phenomena is inherent in its very form which is devoid of a single substance. As the heart sutra says "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form". This nondual philosophy is why you will hear seemingly paradoxical sayings while listening to the sutra (ex. all living beings will be liberated, but not a single living being will be liberated).
Huineng the 6th Chan (Zen) patriarch said: "Countless are those who have read this sutra, and numberless are those who have praised it. More than eight hundred have written commentaries to it, and each has explained its meaning according to his own perspective. But though perspectives differ, the Dharma is one and the same. This sutra is present in the nature of all beings. Those who don't look within read only the words. While those who become aware of their own minds realize this sutra does not consist of words"
Chanting by Sharon Janis
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[@margauxcollins6839]

I love this voice ! So pretty and kind ❤️❤️❤️

[@TheTheokleia]

Prajna Paramita is The Great Compassion.

[@TheAnimationProjects]

I needed to do some research to begin to understand the Diamond Sutra, but once i did meditating with this has become irreplaceable. The Diamond Sutra touches everything and nothing.

[@margauxcollins6839]

Love love love

[@IvonneTiesler]

So lovely!!!

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🙏👏

[@mujaku]

"The Sutra focuses on the nature of emptiness (Shunyata)." The term emptiness (shunyata) is not mentioned once in this Sutra.

[@akundal]

It is actually mentioned everywhere without actually terming it