이 책은 12년 전 미국과 캐나다에서 출판되고 그동안 절판되었다가, 이제 한국의 ‘북팟’에서 다시 새로운 편집으로 출판하는 책입니다.
제가 쓴 책은 절판된 게 많네요. 이 책의 중국어 번역 책도 곧 나올 예정이랍니다.

그런데 이런 번역서들을 (아직도 한국 출판시장에서 팔리고 있는) 한글 원서 《금강경과 함께 깨어나기(2008))》와 대조하면서 읽는다면, 독서의 맛이 각별할 것입니다.
이 책도 제가 죽기 전에 남기는 후현대인을 위한 사상의 선물입니다. 감사합니다.
〈작가의 말에서〉

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1



chapter 1. Your daily life is what completes the perfection of your wisdom

chapter 2. Subhuti makes a question

chapter 3. Means of Transcendence of Friendship and Compassion

chapter 4. Perfect Giving and Dedication of Merit

chapter 5. It’s another conceptualization to say that

conceptualization is illusion

chapter 6. There will be people who believe in lessons of

The Perfection of Wisdom Sutra even in the future

chapter 7. How did Buddha get enlightenment and give Dharma?

chapter 8. Mental Dharma-donation is a much greater merit than physical donations

chapter 9. About four Taos of conventional Buddhism

chapter 10. Sakyamuni didn’t take any lessons from the Buddha Dipamkara (predecessor of the Buddha Sakyamuni)

chapter 11. Propagating The Diamond Sutra is the greater merit than building a temple

chapter 12. There’s always the presence of a master with the highest wisdom wherever The Diamond Sutra exists

chapter 13. What should be the Title of This Sutra?

chapter 14. Subhuti’s Tears and Tathagata’s Perfect Patience

chapter 15. You gain much greater merit when you explain The Diamond Sutra rather than when you give your life

chapter 16. Why being despised and treated with contemp even if you study and propagate The Diamond Sutra everyday?







VOLUME 2



chapter 17. The Stage and Goal of Bodhisattva from Mahayana Buddhism

chapter 18. About five eyes of the Awakened

chapter 19. About Gaining Merits

chapter 20. You shouldn’t discriminate Buddha as the one who is peculiar in his physical appearance

chapter 21. No truth is obtained by verbalized phrases

chapter 22. No substance called the highest level of enlightenment is permanent

chapter 23. The truth which equalizes all beings through non-ego

chapter 24. Choose The Diamond Sutra with limitless merits.

You will attain the supreme wisdom when you read The Diamond Sutra

chapter 25. A cool headed state of Sakyamuni

chapter 26. Do not distinguish the awakened by physical characteristics

chapter 27. Bodhisattva’s truth is never destroyed or extinguished

chapter 28. Realize that everything is non-ego and just admit it and be patient

chapter 29. Sakyamuni’s Calm and Dignified Grace

chapter 30. The Whole Universe is Nothing but Dust

chapter 31. The Kernel of Buddhism is The truth of Conditioned Arising of Non-ego


chapter 32. The Last Teaching of The Diamond Sutra