“All things that appear in this world are transient. If you view all things that appear as never having appeared, then you will realize your true self.”
— Buddha गौतम बुद्ध 563 – 483 BCE
(Siddhartha Shakyamuni Gautama)
Awakened Truth
from Diamond Sutra
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A few years ago, a meditation practitioner in Taiwan told me that the first line reads 若*见*诸相(and)非相, not 若见诸相*非*相. His point stuck with me.
This “见”, as I later understood, is also the same as in "见了就做，做了就放下" as well as in “知见无见，斯即涅槃”. For a long time, I had interpreted the act of "Seeing" as something visual, physical, or mental (i.e., "seeing"). Then I realized (见！Haha) that it is simply the emergence of awareness, which encompasses but precedes all those categories.