Lotus Sutra Chapter I – Part 2 – Dharma Talk in English and French – Video – May 17, 2020

Today we faced significant challenges with the Zoom platform. Wordwide the video was not functioning and the audio was not available to all participants. We persevered as best we were able.

In this Part II of the Dharma talk I talk about a portion of one paragraph from Chapter I – Introduction – Lotus Sutra. The particular paragraph is the fourth one from the beginning as written in English. There is French interpretation for the entire lecture and the location is provided in French at the beginning.

This talk covers two ways of considering the beam of light or the illumination the Buddha provides to 18,000 other worlds. There is a physical as well as metaphorical understanding of Illumination.

The talk also talks about the Four Lowe Realms and how we need proper illumination to fully grasp what we are being influenced by and how to understand our situation.

This is only the first part of my entire presentation on this one paragraph. Subsequent portions will be given on following Sundays.

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About Ryusho 龍昇

Nichiren Shu Buddhist priest. My home temple is Myosho-ji, Wonderful Voice Temple, in Charlotte, NC. You may visit the temple’s web page by going to http://www.myoshoji.org. I am also training at Carolinas Medical Center as a Chaplain intern. It is my hope that I eventually become a Board Certified Chaplain. Currently I am also taking healing touch classes leading to become a certified Healing Touch Practitioner. I do volunteer work with the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (you may learn more about them by following the link) caring for individuals who are HIV+ or who have AIDS/SIDA.

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