File Name: 66-08-17N
Wednesday, August 17, 1966
verbatim transcript, from audio, tape noise, traffic and weird. (Sound problem.) Changed "but before ???" to "but before Hegel", "each is Buddha. Each" to "and Is is Buddha. Is" 1/15/2022 sdh.
Sesshin: Evening Lecture Sokoji, San Francisco The topic about causality—causality. We believe in causality, but our way of believing in cause and effect—theory of cause and effect is not the same as people—ordinary people believe in it. Before we talk about—or before we discuss about the causality, we—we saw two viewpoints of life. One is just mechanical way of understanding of existence. Another is like determinism, to believe in some result. Nowadays, people apply those two view of ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).