Heart Sutra Lesson 12 (Feb 3, 2024)

This was the 12th (out of 12) classes on Writing the Heart Sutra in Traditional Chinese Characters. This class covered the following lines of the Heart Sutra:
是 無 等 等 呪 能 除 一 切 苦 26
시 무 등 등 주 능 제 일 체 고
shi mu-dung-dung ju nung je il-che go // is the supreme mantra which is able to relieve all suffering
眞 實 不 虛 故 說 般 若 波 羅 蜜 多 27
진 실 불 호 고 설 반 야 바 라 밀 다
jin-shil bur-ho go-sol ban-ya ba-ra-mil-ta // and is true, not false. So proclaim the Prajna Paramita
呪 卽 說 呪 曰 28
주 즉 설 주 왈
ju juk-sol-chu-wal // mantra, proclaim the mantra which says:
At about ~20:17 I make a reference to the "Illuminatus Trilogy" (a humorous work of science fiction by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson) and mistakenly credit that series of books with being a source of the "Turtles all the way down" joke. I don't know why I thought that's where I had first heard it, but now I think I was misremembering. Anyway, check out the wikipedia article here for more: en.wikipedia.o...
At ~1:08:42 I refer to the fact that if you do an online image search on the character 普, you will see pictures of Donald Trump. This reason for this is that the standard way of spelling "Donald Trump" using Chinese characters is "唐纳德·特朗普", which in Mandarin is pronounced Táng Nà Dé Tè Lǎng Pǔ: baike.baidu.co... .