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And yet you get hurt when you touch fire. Is that a just dream? The point is understanding emptiness of practice, ideas, interpretations and reality. But it doesn’t mean everything is only illusion (at least not in our common way of understanding it). Both conventional and ultimate true coexist, but until we think and not directly experience non-duality, we’re caught up in duality. The Diamond Sutra really is the master in showings the dialectics of non-duality.
Observe the fire (in meditation) and the fire ceases to be fire. Observe the hurt and the hurt ceases to be hurt. Therefore fire and hurt are not the end of it.
I would hesitate to conclude any "point". I have yet to gain any totally comprehensive understanding of my practice. I just go further. "Beyond beyond" as they say.
I dunno about you but I have yet to find any permanent form.
It's a book and therefore 99% of its meaning is your own interpretation. To call it the master is to call yourself the master. And tomorrow your understanding will change.