Diamond Sutra - Translated - Alex Johnson.epub

The Diamond Sutra is thought to be the oldest dated text in existence, A.D. 868. A sutra is simply, a buddhist scripture. The Diamond Sutra was found sealed up in a cave in north west China in 1907. If you should choose to explore its contents further you may recognize the words as having been spoken by many enlightened beings since.

“This Sutra is hard and sharp, like a diamond that will cut away all arbitrary conceptions and bring one to the other shore of Enlightenment.”–p.13 An Excerpt From the Diamond Sutra www.diamondsutra.com (translation by Alex Johnson)

“This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:”

“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.”

“So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

Thus spoke Buddha.–p.32 the Diamond Sutra