A New Sutra In Three Movements
Introduction and Intention
This is a sutra, but not a sutra in the traditional sense.
It is not part of the Buddhist canon, nor is it offered from a seat of transmission or formal authority.
It is, rather, a thread — woven into lived practice and sewn with fidelity.
The word
sutra comes from the Sanskrit root sūtr — meaning thread — referring to something that weaves together what must be remembered.
Its form echoes classical structures not to imitate them, but to fulfill their function:
a seed of wisdom, small in size but infinite in depth.
This thread extends the quiet after shared inquiry, and what follows real encounter — like the stillness that arose from
Naikan in Four Movements .
Offered not as teaching, but as structure and pattern — a shape to return to when speech falls away.
What follows is not therapeutic — though it may touch places of emotional and relational repair — but liturgical. It lives in the lineage of śūnyatā, where form and emptiness do not oppose, and enters the stream of vow as structural presence.
The Mahāyāna motifs of contact, recognition, and non-abandonment clarify its source (further explored in
Holding Vow Sutra Commentary ⧉ ).
Practiced with as one might listen to a bell.
Chanted, as one might walk through a gentle mist.
For something that stays, rather than for doctrine.
For pattern, rather than for answers.
With bows,
Dōmon 道門 Luu Pham
2025
Structure of the Holding Vow Sutra
This offering unfolds in three movements, each reflecting a distinct aspect of the vow to remain:
The Sutra — A liturgical form drawn from Buddhist cadence, shaped by fidelity, and spoken from contact.
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Holding Vow Sutra ⧉
The Commentary — A layered reflection tracing the roots of each section within Buddhist thought, clarifying sources and intentions.
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Holding Vow Sutra Commentary ⧉
The Poem — A distillation in another voice, where meaning surfaces not through argument or lineage, but through echo.
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What Remains (a poem) ⧉
Each part holds a different thread. Together, they form the weave.
~ End ~
For orientation beyond this page, you may enter through:
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The Vibrating Thread: From the Field of Redibility
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Naikan in Four Movements
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Threadwork (or begin with
Threshold to Threadwork ⧉ for a gentler entry)
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The Holding Vow Sutra (drawn from the arc of
Naikan: The Rhythm of Vow ⧉ , but arriving later)
Winter wind gone.
Grass bowed, unseen.
Spring: the breath beneath.
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