Online video course about the Flower Ornament Scripture

[Ryumon]

The Flower Ornament Scripture is like the Finnegans Wake of Buddhism. One day, I'll read it, but at some 1,500 pages, it'll be hard to keep the thread. There's an online video course launching soon, led by Robert Thurman:

https://thusmenla.org/p/flower-ornament-sutra

It is priced anywhere from free to a lot of money, and some Treeleaf members might be interested.

Gassho,

Ryūmon

sat

[Risho]

Interesting thank you Ryumon!

Gassho

Risho
-stlah

[Kokuu]

Thanks, Ryumon! I am tempted to do this as part of Ango but think that just keeping up with the reading will be pretty tough going given the length of the sutra. I do have a copy of Cleary's translation though.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Hōkan]

Well, crap. I don't need this just now.

Or maybe I do.

I donno.

I'm signing up.

St

[Jundo]

It sounds lovely. I may sign up.

Of course, knowing Professor Robert Thurman (Uma's dad! ) there may be a somewhat Tibetan flavored take on the lectures ... or not (he is an excellent teacher and translator).

Gassho, J

STLah

[Kaishin]

It sounds lovely. I may sign up.

Ah, good... I shall eagerly await the Jundo (Blue) Cliff's Notes summary 😁

-satToday

[Doshin]

Ah, good... I shall eagerly await the Jundo (Blue) Cliff's Notes summary ��

-satToday

Yes!



Doshin
St

[Hōkan]

It has been interesting so far. Robert Thurman is a trip! The video portion seems to have no important content so I've extracted the audio and loaded in my podcast app so I can listen anywhere.

He's not much of a fan of American Zen folks. Talking about a Zen koan:

That zen Master knows, unlike American Zen practitioners who are caught in the cultural web of materialism where the nothing is what the ultimate, the dark matter is the ultimate thing is. Nothingness. They sold themselves into that hole. Trapped in that trap.

Still, he's quite enthusiastic and has encourage me such that after ango I will finally read it.

Sat

[Kyōsen]

I'm so glad these were recorded so I can still take advantage of this, even though I'm only hearing about it well over a month after it began

Gassho
Kyōsen
Sat|LAH