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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness, p. 37verbatim transcript, from audio, Q & A after lecture.
Line 2 was handed down closely from west to east. Line 3 People may discriminate the dull from the keen, Line 4 but in the true way there is no Patriarch of North or South.] I explained in last lecture about the title of this scripture, Sandokai-- what does it mean by San-do-kai and Chikudo daisen no shin. Tonight, maybe, it is necessary to explain about the background of this poem-- why Sekito Zenji-- Sekito Kisen Daiosho, wrote this poem. As you know, under the Fifth ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).