What's your favourite sutra?
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What is the sutra you have most 'affinity' with?
For me, I think it is Heart Sutra. Since very young age I have listened to it very often on tape although I couldn't understand what it meant. Then when I was 12, it suddenly dawned on me that 'form is emptiness, emptiness is form', that truth is truly beyond conceptuality and we are often so caught up in concepts, creating dualities like 'form' and 'emptiness'. Heart Sutra suddenly made sense to me and I felt really happy.
But of course, Emptiness has much deeper meanings as I learnt in the years to come. -
Diamond Sutra
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Wow... that's greatOriginally posted by maggot:Diamond Sutra Diamond Sutra is definitely a great sutra and contains important teachings especially on Emptiness. I will be giving a basic explanation on what I consider to be important points of Diamond Sutra on Skype... do join in our discussion 
Not sure when, but not so soon. -
heart
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lankavatara sutra
thusness recommended it to me -
Eh? He recommended it to you too?Originally posted by Cenarious:lankavatara sutra
thusness recommended it to me
Anyway i hope to read that soon. I too have a liking for lankavatara sutra, but i only read i bit last time -
Anyway just a reminder, thusness is going to share his own experiences with lankavatara sutra and how it has helped in the understanding of our true nature interested people can keep a lookout for the date in the sutra discussion topic which is stickied in the forum
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ya and he told me to concentrate on just this sutraOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:Eh? He recommended it to you too? Anyway i hope to read that soon. I too have a liking for lankavatara sutra, but i only read i bit last time -
Like it doesn't mean I know a lot on Lankavatara sutra. I am not really that well verse in lankavatara sutra. Nothing really intense.Originally posted by Cenarious:ya and he told me to concentrate on just this sutra -
The shortest path to unnatural abilities in my searchOriginally posted by An Eternal Now:Wow... that's great Diamond Sutra is definitely a great sutra and contains important teachings especially on Emptiness. I will be giving a basic explanation on what I consider to be important points of Diamond Sutra on Skype... do join in our discussion Not sure when, but not so soon.
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The Three Pure Land Sutras
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though the one that get me in is Heart. the last would be Amitabha Sutra.
in between i also like Avatamsaka, Shurangama and Lotus Sutra.
the word "favourite " is subjected to change. recently i'm listening to Lotus. almost interesting.
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The Lotus Sutra & Bei Hua Sutra