The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

By: Thomas Cleary

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Paperback | 14 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Hui-neng (638-713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar of the fact that neither education nor social background has any bearing on the attainment of enlightenment. This collection of his talks, also known as the Platform or Altar Sutra, is the only Zen record of its kind to be generally honored with the appellation sutra, or scripture.

The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra-in its very first published English translation ever.

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"The latest work from a distinguished and prolific translator is a new rendering of a celebrated Zen text, The Sutra of Hui-neng. This comes with what is stated to be the first English translation of Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra."-- The Middle Way

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Introduction	p. 3
Hui-Neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
Preface	p. 85
The Cause and Reason of the Teaching Assembly	p. 88
Subhuti Initiates Questioning	p. 90
The True Source of the Great Vehicle	p. 91
Subtle Practice without Dwelling	p. 95
Real Seeing in Accord with Truth	p. 97
The Rarity of True Faith	p. 98
No Attainment and No Preaching	p. 101
Emergence into Life through the Truth	p. 103
Oneness without Forms	p. 105
Adorning a Pure Land	p. 107
The Superiority of Uncreated Blessings	p. 109
Honoring True Teaching	p. 110
Accepting and Holding the Teaching Accurately	p. 111
Absolute Peace beyond Forms	p. 114
The Virtues of Holding the Sutra	p. 120
The Capacity to Clear Away Karmic Obstructions	p. 123
Ultimate Selflessness	p. 125
Impartial View of Oneness	p. 129
The Teaching Pervading the Cosmos of Realities	p. 131
Detachment from Forms and Appearances	p. 132
Not Preaching a Doctrine	p. 133
There Is Nothing to Attain	p. 134
Purifying the Mind and Doing Good	p. 135
Blessings and Wisdom without Compare	p. 136
Teaching without Teaching Anyone	p. 136
The Embodiment of Reality Is Not External Appearances	p. 137
No Annihilation or Extinction	p. 139
Not Accepting, Not Being Greedy	p. 139
Serenity of Conduct	p. 140
The Principle of the Compound	p. 140
Views Do Not Occur	p. 142
The Reward and the Emanation Are Not the Real	p. 143
Notes on the Sutra of Hui-Neng	p. 145
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The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

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