Study The Experience

After participating with online discussion forums for 8-9 months, I have finally realized why my master taught only Sitting Chan for the first fifteen years without teaching any of the sutras.

I have realized that there was an important understanding about the sutras before we read them. That is all the sutras are about Buddha’s enlightened mind. The sutra records his experience and his witness of his synchronization with the universe.

It is an experience with an invisible, indescribable energy which can only be connected with and difficult to be read, understand or comprehend by our mind. For instance, how can we study the taste of an apple. How can we study a Marathon run? How can we read about love?

If we had the connection with the life force of the universe,,,

• we would know instinctively that “form is emptiness and emptiness is form” because they are both manifested by the life force.
• We would know instinctively, “… all Dharma that is voiced, stated, written, documented are not Dharma“, because it is not the life force itself.
• We would know instinctively, “… seeing all forms as no form, thus see true form…” means all forms are just effects and the life force is the true cause.

If we experience of the life force and wisdom of the universe, there will be no interpretation necessary, every word in the sutra will be clear and precise.

Why do so many teachers both to explain and interpret the sutras for all the mind. There is really no short cut.

I decided to meditate more and more and more.

For many there are so close yet so far.