Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Lotus Sutra | ||||||||
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| Lotus Sūtra No. I-1 | 68-02-00-A | 68-02-00-A.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | During Sesshin the Lotus Sutra will not be appropriate for the lecture, but I ...… | sped a little? | |||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-2 | 68-02-00-B | 68-02-00-B.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | A ray issued from Buddha's forehead between eyebrow. Everyone could see many ...… | sped up at end - join 1n2 for t-B not like A. | |||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-3 | 68-02-00-C | 68-02-00-C.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | Maitreya asked Manjusri what is going to happen, and Maitreya—Manjusri started ...… | ||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-4 | 68-02-00-D | 68-02-00-D.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | "Now, young men of good family, long before the time of Tathagata Kandrasuryapradipa, ...… | ||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-5 | 68-02-00-E | 68-02-00-E.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | Manjusri again is answering Maitreya, telling him what he has seen. He is so ...… | ||||
| Lotus Sūtra No. I-6 | 68-02-00-F | 68-02-00-F.pdf | 68-02-00A-F-bf.pdf | "The monks and nuns at the time being, who strove after supreme, highest enlightenment, ...… | level problems with some of these 00s. DC added last section to transcript, starting at "Bill Shurtleff" 10-31-2015. Q & A after lecture. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-1 | 68-10-20 | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | This sutra titled Saddharmapundarika Sutra was supposed to be told by Buddha, ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-2 | 68-10-21 | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | [The Lotus Sutra] -- which was [not] told by a historical Buddha. But some people ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-3 | 68-10-00-B | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | 68-10-00-B-LE.htm | I already explained nature of Nirmanakaya Buddha and Sambhogakaya Buddha. The ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-4 | 68-10-00-C | 69-03-04-Lotus-Sutra.pdf | 68-10-00-C-LE.htm | The point—point of my previous lecture is—because it may be difficult for you ...… | Q & A after lecture. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-5 | 68-10-00-D | 68-10-00-D-LE.htm | What is told in this sutra is view of the Dharmakaya world, view of the world ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-6 | 68-10-00-E | 68-10-00-E-LE.htm | The other day someone asked me back about Vairocana Buddha. Vairocana Buddha ...… | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-7 | 68-10-00-F | 68-10-00-F-LE.htm | Yesterday I told you about Ajnata-Kaundinya [repeats different pronunciations], ...… | little higher voice. Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-8 | 68-10-00-G | 68-10-00-G-LE.htm | Buddha's disciples were very good people, generous and honest and sincere, but ...… | Q & A after lecture. | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-9 | 68-10-00-H | Zen butso ??? assembled and sitting together in that ??? monks, nuns, male and ...… | extreme level and speed problems | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-10 | 68-10-00-I | As Zen Buddhists, it is necessary for us to understand the Second Patriarch Mahakashapa. ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-11 | 68-10-00-J | Last, last lecture we studied about Mahakashapa. Mahakashapa, who became the ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-12 | 68-10-00-K | sr-lotus-sutra-12-1968.pdf | Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. 12 Shunryu Suzuki Lecture October 1968 [?Transcript ...… | speed and level towrd end - ty at 51:00? | ||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-13 | 68-10-00-L | -- bodhisattvas and arhats. Subhuti, the Venerable Rahula.” Rahula is, as you ...… | ||||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-14 | 68-10-00-M | We have here-- we had here various names of bodhisattvas, and the next ones were ...… | sped up at end. Q & A after lecture. | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15 | 68-10-00-N | Page eight. “Then rose in the mind of the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Maitreya this ...… | ||||||
| On The Parable of the Burning House | 68-12-24 | … second point. And in the third [possible gap here?] the Buddha addressed to ...… | [Verbatim transcript was not available before. (Sound problem.)] | |||||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-1 | 69-10-20 | 69-10-20V.pdf | 69-10-20-LE.html | As many of you are the students who joined our training-- this training period, ...… | spedup toward end. Q & A after lecture. Changed "repeats come" to "repeats some" 9-29-2020 pf. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2 | 69-10-23 | 69-10-23V.pdf | 69-10-23-LE.html | -- out things difficult to understand. The mystery of Tathagata is difficult ...… | sped up. Change "but in Hinayana" to "but in Mahayana"; "of if" to "or if" 10-3-2020 pf. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-4 | 69-10-25 | 69-10-25V.pdf | 69-10-25-LE.htm | Last night1 I explained the most important part of this chapter [II], ...… | sped up. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 11/20/2020. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-5 | 69-10-28 | 69-10-28V.pdf | 69-10-28-LE.htm | I think there must be many things to prepare before you understand-- before you ...… | Multiple attempts to improve sound quality, but still very unclear towards end of audio. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 11/22/2020. New transcription of last section, 6/2021 pf. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-6 | 69-10-30 | 69-10-30V.pdf | 69-10-30-LE.pdf | The print-- print you have got there is trans- -- mostly translated from Kumarajiva's ...… | extreme spedup. Q & A after lecture. | |||
| Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-7 | 69-11-07 | 69-11-07V.pdf | 69-11-07-LE.pdf | In this sutra in Chapter II, “Skillful Means,” he-- he is correcting our misunderstanding ...… | loud. Q & A after lecture. Footnotes restored 8/7/2020. | |||