Although We Have Nothing, We Can Help Others By Offering Things
File Name: 66-07-07
Thursday, July 7, 1966
verbatim transcript, from audio, audio exists, Suzuki Roshi read from the Reiho Masunaga translation of Shushogi.
"To benefit of -- to benefit others we have four types of wisdom: charity, tenderness, benevolence, and sympathy."
Student: Excuse me, what page is this?
SR: Hmm?
Student: What page?
SR: Page 52 - fifty. The last part. "To benefit others we have four types of wisdom: charity, tenderness, benevolence, and sympathy. These represent the desire and effort of bodhisattva. Charity stand opposed to covet -- covetousness [SR pronounces this more like "curvaceousness"]." Here he talks about how to ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).
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