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In this brilliant new translation and commentary on The Diamond Sutra--one of the sublime wisdom teachings of Mahayana Buddhism--Mu Soeng integrates this ancient wisdom teaching with current scientific and psychological thought. His clear and readable commentary traces the connections between these teachings and contemporary theories of quantum reality, explores the sutra within the framework of Buddhist meditation practices, and provides a comprehensive historical survey of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. Mu Soeng's goal throughout is to reveal the inspiration and wisdom of The Diamond Sutra to today's reader in an accessible, engaging, and modern manner.
- Sales Rank: #520729 in Books
- Model: 1043370
- Published on: 2000-02-15
- Released on: 2000-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .70" w x 6.00" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Amazon.com Review
Composed of 32 short chapters, the Diamond Sutra is nonetheless one of the monumental scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. The great Sixth Patriarch of Zen, Huineng, is said to have achieved enlightenment after hearing a single line of this sutra. We can't promise sudden enlightenment, but we can tell you that Mu Soeng's version is one of the best. A former Zen monk, Mu Soeng takes us back in an extensive introduction to the beginnings of Buddhist sutras and traces their development up to the appearance of the Diamond Sutra in the third or fourth century. He also details why Zen Buddhists in particular are attracted to it. The Diamond Sutra is intended as an antidote to suffering, which is achieved through wisdom. It tells us that realizing the emptiness of all things is the key step on this path and that its articulation comes, paradoxically, in the boddhisattva ideal of saving all sentient beings. Paradox is at the heart of this classic sutra, and in extensive commentaries Mu Soeng unravels the paradoxes while explaining the challenging vocabulary. For an authoritative version of the Diamond Sutra, you can't do better, and notice the fluid language: So you should view all of the fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. --Brian Bruya
Review
"What a pleasure to read this lyrical rendering of the Diamond Sutra. Providing a full historical and cultural context for this great teaching inspires an understanding of its contemporary relevance, while the clarity of Mu Soeng's prose makes sophisticated Buddhist scholarship available to all interested readers." (Sylvia Boorstein, author of It's Easier Than You Think)
"Mu Soeng relates the sutra in fresh ways to early Buddhist social, cultural and institutional history... the messages of the text are given fresh expression in teaching encounters, poems, and delightful stories." (Prof. John Makransky, Dept. of Theology, Boston College)
"This book is a job well done. Mu Soeng clearly illuminates the fascinating world of ancient Buddhist thought and skillfully guides us through its historical evolution. For the first time, I began to understand this important history. And his insightful commentary on the Diamond Sutra makes accessible to us all the transforming wisdom of this profound text. I highly recommend this book for all those wishing an in-depth exploration of the enlightened mind." (Joseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace and Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom)
"Mu Soeng's interpretation of the Diamond Sutra is an attempt to present traditional Buddhist insights, as found in one of the fundamental scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism, in a modern or post-modern form appropriate for contemporary practitioners and others interested in making ancient wisdom relevant and vital for today. Together with a translation based largely on Conze's rendition of a Sanskrit text, Mu Soeng, a Zen practitioner, presents his detailed running commentary, which fuses traditional Buddhist lore with the contemporary approaches of quantum physics and deconstructionist literary theory. Accompanied by a lengthy introduction, Mu Soeng's work, which is in some ways reminiscent of the insightful commentaries of Thich Nhat Hanh, should be of great interest to all those who seek modern and post-modern relevance in ancient Buddhist thought." (Jonathan Silk, Yale University)
"Mu Soeng's commentary on the Diamond Sutra is a combination Buddhist history lesson, philosophical investigation, and thorough contemporary reading of this core Mahayana text... Mu Soeng applies both scholarship and years of dharma training to his analysis... [A] fresh and inspiring exposition of core Mahayana philosophy..." (Inquiring Mind)
"Composed of 32 short chapters, the Diamond Sutra is nonetheless one of the monumental scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. The great Sixth Patriarch of Zen, Huineng is said to have achieved enlightenment after hearing a single line of this sutra. We can't promise sudden enlightenment, but we can tell you that Mu Soeng's version is one of the best. A former Zen monk, Mu Soeng takes us back in an extensive introduction to the beginnings of Buddhist sutras and traces their development up to the appearance of the Diamond Sutra in the third or fourth century. He also details why Zen Buddhists in particular are attracted to it. The Diamond Sutra is intended as an antidote to suffering, which is achieved through wisdom. It tells us that realizing the emptiness of all things is the key step on this path and that its articulation comes, paradoxically, in the bodhisattva ideal of saving all sentient beings. Paradox is at the heart of this classic sutra, and in extensive commentaries Mu Soeng unravels the paradoxes while explaining the challenging vocabulary. For an authoritative version of the Diamond Sutra, you can't do better, and notice the fluid language:
So you should view all of the fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in the stream; A flash
of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp,
a phantom, and a dream." (Amazon.com Delivers Eastern Religion)
"The text and Mu Soeng's commentary on it are a real treasure house." (The Middle Way)
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Most helpful customer reviews
42 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
A Work of Clarity and Scholarship
By Cliff Heegel
This is an excellent book. Mu Soeng writes with a clarity that makes very difficult concepts understandable. At the same time, he presents a work of excellent historical scholarship that will educate, inform, and even entertain those readers wanting greater depth in understanding the Diamond Sutra and Mahayana Buddhism.
When I bought this book I expected a treatise that would clarify the philosophical depth of the Diamond Sutra. I was not disappointed. Mu Soeng's explanations of the Diamond Sutra clearly explain this paradoxical sutra without trivializing the material.
I was surprised when I discovered the wealth of historical material in the book on the development of Mahayana thought and the bodhisattva ideal. Normally such material might bore me, but somehow Mu Soeng weaves an historical tale that infuses the story of the development of Mahayana Buddhism with a sense of excitement.
I have studied and practiced Buddhism (Zen in particular) for almost 30 years. This is an excellent book that should be on the shelves of anyone who wants greater depth and clarity regarding the Diamond Sutra, the bodhisattva ideal, and Mahayana thought.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Mahayana Revealed
By J. B. Stroup
The Diamond Sutra is the core of the Buddhist Mahayana tradition and displays the paradoxical and mystical nature of Buddhism. Mu Soeng has written an extraordinary book for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. It is transformative for readers from almost any spiritual tradation, and the most articulate and absorbing commentary on the Buddhist Mahayana tradition as well as the Diamond Sutra. Thich Nhat Hanh's commentary on the same sutra pales by comparison. The book's first section is the most elaborate and remarkable exposition and history of Mahayana available in a popular text. Mu Soeng places both Buddhism and the Mahayana tradition in the historical and cultural context of the times, showing the remarkable creativity of the Buddha's views. His exposition of shunyata or emptiness is as close to human comprehension as we are likely to get.
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
An Excellent Commentary for an Important Buddhist Sutra
By Susanna Hutcheson
The Diamond Sutra is one of the most important works in the Buddhist religion. It is one of a number of great sutras that make up what would be considered the equivalent of the Christian Bible. This sutra, like all the sutras and much of the Oriental writing such as the Bhagavad-Gita, is written in the form of a conversation . . . in this case it's written between the Buddha and , a monk by the name of Sabuthi.
Buddha is speaking to a large group of monks and others but the conversation is with this one individual.
The book is very intelligently divided into three parts. The first part consists of a history of this sutra and Buddhism in general. And it very well written.
The second part is the Diamond Sutra in a translated text and commentary and finally there is an appendix which consists of the raw text of the diamond Sutra. I find this an excellent way to put the commentary together.
While the book itself is relatively short with only 167 pages., it manages to give a tremendous amount of valuable information about this delightful sutra.
I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of historical data in this book. The author, Mu Soeng, gives a tremendous amount of historical background, as well as explains the differences in some of the various schools of Buddhism. This is most fascinating.
This material is written in a very easy to understand way and it is exceptionally well researched.
The background of the Diamond Sutra is well-documented in this book. Its relevance to the various schools of Buddhism are given quite a bit of space in the book, which I found very useful.
The second part of the book is the translated text and commentary. I had some trouble with this section. But perhaps the reason I had this difficulty, is explained by the Buddha himself who said in this sutra, "This sutra will be called the . . . The Diamond -- Cutter Wisdom That has Gone Beyond, because it has the capacity to cut through illusions and afflictions and bring us to the sure awakening, and by this title you will know it"
The Buddha also said in his discussion with Sabuthi (the monk Lord Bud dah was talking to in the sutra), that Sabuthi should know that the meaning of this sutra is beyond comprehension and discussion. He added that the fruit that results from receiving and practicing this sutra is beyond comprehension and discussion also.
So perhaps the fact that many things in this sutra were still left esoteric is because that's the way it was intended to be.
To give you an example of just one of the hundreds of areas that I felt were not commented upon enough for me understand is the following:
"Therefore, Sabuthi, a bodhisattva, detaching him or herself from all ideas, should rouse the desire for utmost, supreme, and perfect awakening. He or she should produce thoughts that are unsupported by forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tangible objects, or mind objects, unsupported by Dharma, unsupported by no-Dharma, unsupported by everything. And why? Because all supports are no supports. This is the reason why the Buddha teaches that the bodhisattva should practice generosity without dwelling on form. Sabuthi, the reason he practices generosity is to benefit all beings." The Buddha also says that there is no Dharma by which he has fully known the utmost, right, and perfect awakening. And the Dharma that he has fully known and demonstrated is neither grasped nor elusive. Therefore he teaches all dharmas are the Buddha's own special dharmas. Finally to give another example of the difficulty in understanding the sutra, allow me to quote one more time from the Diamond Sutra.
"Know, World Honored One, he does not, why? Because to create a harmonious Buddha field is not to create a harmonious Buddha field, and therefore he is known as creating a harmonious Buddha field."
Now I realized that this is written eons ago. I know that it is esoteric in nature. But I would have liked the author to explain some of these areas better. I don't feel that a person should have to be a Buddhist scholar with many years background to be able to understand this lovely sutra.
But having said that, I think the author has done a superior job in writing a book that explains the eloquence and the beauty and the deep richness of Buddhism. Further, he has described the history in such manner that it brings Buddhism alive and makes it very real for the reader.
And so if a person is either well entrenched in Buddhism of any school, or if an individual is very interested in Buddhism and wants to gain a greater knowledge of it, I highly recommend this book. It is a wonderful work and well worth reading. I would advise the reader to read it more than one time, however. Because that will be the only way that he or she is going to be able to grasp the full meaning of both the commentary and this sutra.
I would give another star to the book if only it could explain what more of the text means or even gave the reader a few options from which to choose. But this being an ancient text and esoteric at best, perhaps that can never be done.
One should be aware too that Mu Soeng comes from the Zen tradition and some of the material cannot help but be colored by that. However, I found that he did an excellent job at being objective. So people from other traditions should be able to enjoy this book as well as people of the Zen tradition.
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