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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness, p. 177verbatim transcript, from audio, audio exists, Lecture to Professor Weller's Visiting Class with chants at end. Q & A after lecture.
Purpose of study of Buddhism is to have perfect understanding of things, and subjectively to understand ourselves, and especially what we are doing in our everyday life-- what kind of activity we are involved in, [to] know why we suffer, [and why] we have such a conflict in our society or in our, you know, family, or within ourselves. So to understand with good understanding of subjective world and objective world and what is going on in objective world and in within ourselves. If we, you ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).