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For beings who lack the bodhisattva’s aspiration cannot hear, grasp, memorize, recite, or master this dharma teaching.

For this teaching is the diamond body, the dharma-kaya, the body of truth, which buddhas realize and teach to others.

This is due to cultivating the branches instead of the roots.

essence of wisdom, whereby our everyday activities become the focus of our spiritual cultivation.

Zen masters looked for something better suited to larger audiences of varying degrees of comprehension. They found their text in the Diamond Sutra.