Fresh Talk: Lankavatara Sutra (Scobie Roshi)

On October 9, 2022, Heather Meikyo Scobie Roshi presented the Lankavatara Sutra, a quintessential Zen Sutra passed down from Bodhidharma to his successor as the essence of Zen. The sutra describes how our traditional way of seeing is backward in that all things are manifestations of the Mind. A major point of emphasis is that the truth is to be realized by oneself. Scobie Roshi connects how these principles make Zen training in the Virtual Dojo possible and what we can apply from the sutra to our own training. For more information or to leave a donation, please check out: choseizen.org/virtual-dojo
===Contents of the video ===============
00:00:00 - Overview & outline of talk
00:03:00 - History & background of sutra
00:09:30 - Personal story with sutra
00:12:34 - Texts related to Lankavatara sutra
00:14:28 - Relevant terms & vocabulary
00:17:14 - Story of Ravana from first chapter
00:31:34 - Ninth Consciousness
00:36:49 - What Lankavatara tells us about the mind
00:40:04 - Functioning of discriminating & unborn mind
00:46:53 - How we create space & time
00:52:09 - Illusion of ordinary experience
00:57:10 - What the sutra tells us about realization
01:04:35 - How we can apply the sutra to our own training
01:09:34 - How these principles apply to Zen training in the Virtual Dojo
01:12:34 - Mind-Only proven by science (recent Nobel Prize)
01:16:00 - Other Q&A