Conversation between Sariputra and Avalokitesvara
Sariputra ask how to practice Perfection of Wisdom
Prompted through influence of Buddha (in meditation)
Emptiness
18 Elements all Empty
(1 object > 1 sense > 1 mind)
(cup > vision > awareness)
x6 sense organs
Emptiness
= Interdependent Co-Arising
Same as Middle Way
Not nothingness
Don't hold onto = raft parable
Teaching device for dependence of all things (take medicine until better, don't continue after well)
Samsara and Nirvana same, interdependent
Mantra
"Thus, om, gone, gone, well gone, gone beyond, enlightenment, hail."
Conventional Truth & Ultimate Truth
Conventional can be defined
Ultimate cannot, empty
Star Analogy
Looking at a star with a telescope, might not exist
Hologram Analogy
Magic?
Diamond Sutra
Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramit
Uses Paradoxes
Goal is to liberate all living beings, however none are ever liberated (?)
Accumulation of Merit
Memorization, recitation = sacred
Ultimate truth
No coming, going, staying
No mind
Don't objectify
"He who see the Buddha in his physical form, does not really see the Buddha"