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Throughout the entire Diamond Sutra, its essential purport is to break through marks, break through marks, break through marks—breaking through all marks, beginning with breaking the four marks, and breaking through all dharma-marks. All marks are false and illusory; they are no-marks, not no-marks, neither dharma nor non-dharma. Yet the basis for breaking through all these marks is the unborn and unceasing vajra mind (vajra-citta). The process and result of breaking through marks in the Diamond Sutra echo from afar the Dharma gate of perfect penetration through the ear faculty of Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, emptying all that can be emptied, leaving only the vajra prajñā mind that can under no circumstances be emptied—it is the other shore, yet not the other shore, nor not the other shore, solitary and without companion, yet it is the one true dharma realm. The Diamond Sutra also echoes from afar all prajñā sūtras and Mahāyāna sūtras, mutually corroborating one another without the slightest discord—apart from emptiness there is only emptiness; emptiness carried to its end is non-emptiness, nor not non-emptiness.
