Wisdom in the Bodhicaryavatara
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Shanti Deva's Sutra of Sabote and the Diamond Sutra
For Shanti Deva, intellect or insight in the wind hand and compassion or skillful means on the other are not mutually exclusive. So his whole approach in this is aimed at opening our minds into wakeful spaciousness by relentlessly undermining everything that you think you understand. It makes me giggle actually. The Diamond Sutra just makes me laugh. You kind of read the Diamond Sutra. And there's this bit which goes on about all these merits that the bodhisattva kind of gains and he rolls them together or she rolls them together like a great big ball and they just get bigger and they get bigger and then you give them away. That's the last line of the S
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