The Buddha taught: How to control your mind? Where must your mind dwell? You only need to bring all living creatures of whatever class to the final extinction, to the unbounded liberation, Nirvana! But actually none of them was brought to the final extinction!

Oh my goodness! What a whirlwind! The Buddha continued on before one recovered from the first train of thought:

“Why so? Because no Bodhisattva who is a real Bodhisattva cherishes the conception of an ego, a personality, a being or a life span”.

Upon hearing this many listeners felt the contradiction to commit themselves further and they started to reconsider their idea of becoming Bodhisattva.

Even Subhuti cried out:

“I might easily understand the Buddha’s teaching, but in 500 years, what about the people of that time, will they be able to understand?”

The Buddha admonished him: “Subhuti, do not utter such words.”

This is because the Buddha has great faith in the future, as people are more likely to easier understand his teaching thanks to modern technology, mode of media communication, and so forth… though material improvements and life conveniences will be abundant… people will be more prone to suffer and their destructive emotions will also soar up! The Buddha added: “In the future, if someone hears this Sutra and is not frightened, or alarmed, or terrified, you should know that person is most rare”.

Half a century ago, Edward Conze (Ph.D. in Psychology and well-known Buddhist scholar who translated the Diamond Sutra into English) said that an intellectual theologian friend of his, upon reading the translation bewilderedly exclaimed: “It’s crazy! Utterly crazy!” But Edward Conze didn’t think this was crazy at all, on the contrary he affirmed that the results will be acknowledged through daily application of its principles!