Martine Batchelor

Um, Buddhism Without Beliefs was his first big book.

Anyway, so he wrote a book recently with his wife, Martine Batchelor, who was a Korean Zen nun for quite a while, and then a newer teacher named Bernat Font, who's from Spain, and he was a, um...

It's interesting to note that he was an accomplished j-jazz and blues piano player, pianist.

And so the quote is really from this book, and the book, the title jumped out at me because it, it, they called it Living Life on Life's Terms.

I thought, really? And it's called The Path of Compassion, The Bodhisattva Precepts, The Chinese Brahma's Vetnet Sutra.

And the introduction and translation is by Martine Batchelor.

Some of you, she's written some books about Zen.

She's a Roshi married to Stephen Batchelor, and some of you will have read his work, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama just saying, oh, isn't this wonderful? Very Dalai Lama-esque.

That's where they, a rough version of where they've been and you know where they're going because you are it.

Okay, so other notes from there.

So Martine Batchelor comments that these precepts were used to defend and argue the case for the Mahayana.

And you can really see it in the Lankavatara Sutra, which is also so much distinguishing the Mahayana from the Mahayana.