January 2008

The Key to Destroying Unhappiness

In Sunlight for the Path to Freedom, Chone Drakpa Shedrup’s commentary on this sutra, we learn to create many great mountains of merit and purify lifetimes of negativities.

What does it actually mean to find happiness? The keys to the actual meaning and ways of going about this goal are dealt with in the Diamond Cutter Sutra. These talks dive into one of the direct teachings on why we suffer, methods on how to end it, and the ways to help others. The Diamond Cutter classes are about the heart of this ancient wisdom: emptiness. Through commentary from many masters and the original teachings of Lord Buddha, we learn that enlightenment isn’t in India or even after death. It’s in the world right in front of our eyes.

All we have to do is wake up to this reality, see emptiness directly. The Diamond Cutter Sutra is the dawning sun that ends the darkness of suffering.