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THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE

The Diamond Sūtra

Diamond Sūtra
nature
A dialogue that keeps taking away every handle it offers — a bodhisattva who thinks of beings as beings is no bodhisattva; the teaching is a raft; all conditioned things are a dream, a bubble, a flash of lightning. The Dunhuang copy of 868 CE is the world's oldest dated printed book.

The line Huineng heard in a market, and the single most consequential object in the history of printing.
Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream…
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyGevurah cuts — and this text is named for the blade that cuts through every position, including its own.
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diamond sutra · vajracchedika · dunhuang · 868
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