{"id":6697,"date":"2010-07-06T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2010-07-06T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T01:47:00","slug":"taiwan-adventure-7-heart-sutra-in-binary-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/taiwan-adventure-7-heart-sutra-in-binary-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Adventure (7): Heart Sutra in Binary Code"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Upon entering Dharma Drum Mountain’s resource library is an interesting artwork. It’s called \u5fc3\u7ecf\u5f71\u58c1 or ‘Wall of Images of the Heart Sutra’. On it are 20 copies of the Heart Sutra inscribed on bronze in various languages. It’s an apt piece of sacred decoration as the library represents a storehouse of wisdom, while the Heart Sutra encapsulates the essence and universality of wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of them all, the language used that was the most interesting to me was machine or binary code – in the lower left corner of the wall – which consists of nothing other than combinations of ‘1’s and ‘0’s to represent each word. This is the simplest universal way of encoding anything and everything, in a digital manner, using only 2 encoders (ones and zeroes). This is the second time I’ve seen the wall in person, but this time, after, more deliberate study of the Heart Sutra, I appreciated the binary version of the Heart Sutra even more. The Heart Sutra is often mistaken to be about emptiness alone. However, it is also equally about form.<\/span> We know this because the sutra says clearly that –<\/p>\n

Form is emptiness;
\nEmptiness is form.<\/p>\n

Form is not different from emptiness;
\nEmptiness is not different from form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sutra obviously wants us to have balanced views about both form and emptiness; to be not particularly attached to either. Forms are important too, to exemplify the Dharma. The\u00a0‘Wall of Images of the Heart Sutra’ is a form for instance. Without form of thoughts, words, spoken, written, remembered… how can we come to realise the heart of wisdom? Interestingly, the ‘1’s can be seen to represent form, while the ‘O’s to represent emptiness (though emptiness is not nothingness, but everythingness in change). The universe is binary, dualistic, yet one! <\/span>From\u00a0http:\/\/www.ddm.org.tw\/maze\/171\/homepage7.asp<\/a> –<\/p>\n

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Related Article:<\/strong>
\nThe Heart of the Heart Sutra Between Its Lines
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/the-heart-of-the-heart-sutra-between-its-lines<\/a><\/p>\n

Next Taiwan Adventure:<\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/07\/taiwan-adventure-8-guide-the-guide<\/a>
\nPrevious Taiwan Adventure:<\/span>
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/06\/taiwan-adventure-6-oh-my-buddha<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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