Handing Down the Precious Sword (7-10)
(Bản dịch Anh ngữ : GƯƠM BÁU TRAO TAY)
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Trân trọng,
Đỗ Hồng Ngọc
7. Facing phenomena with empty mind
Let’s go back to Subhuti. After having required the name of the Sutra, shed some sorrowful tears, regretfully lamenting that the deep teaching had been revealed to him only now even though he had followed the Buddha for so many years, he suddenly stood up and repeated his first question: “How to quiet, how to subdue one’s mind”, as if he did not hear anything since the beginning. How curious! Could he possibly be that forgetful or already… in his dotage? The amazing thing is that not only he did not receive any dressing down by the Buddha “don’t you speak like that!”, but the World Honoured answered him even more affably! There must be some riddles here!
Maybe it was not without reason that the Buddha had chosen Subhuti to expound the Diamond Sutra, as he had chosen Sariputra to expound the Heart Sutra.
