The Awakening of Faith

The Awakening of Faith (大乘起信論), more fully The Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith, is a foundational text that helped establish the concepts and practice of Mahayana Buddhism, which includes Zen Buddhism. In particular, this text seems to be a sort of bridge between the concepts of Buddhist psychology attributed to the historical Buddha and those concepts further developed by Mahayana Buddhism. (Katagiri Roshi says something like this early in Talk 1, but his statement is somewhat open to interpretation.)

Katagiri Roshi gave 38 talks commenting on this text, in five series. The recordings of 22 of those talks are currently available. 12 are not yet in the online audio archive; 4 are missing or lost.

This series of transcripts is in draft stage.

Series 1

• Talk 1: Introduction and Invocation
• Talk 3: One Mind and Its Two Aspects
• Talk 5
• Talk 6
• Talk 7
• Talk 8
• Talk 9: Two Kinds of Nowness
• Talk 10: Time
• Talk 11: Alayavijnana and Tathagatagarbha
• Talk 12: Tathagatagarbha
• Talk 13: Tathagatagarbha, Alayavijnana

Talks 2, 4, and 14 are missing.

Series 2

Talks 15 - 22 are not yet in the online archive.

Series 3

• Talk 23
• Talk 24

Talks 25-27 are not yet in the online archive. Talk 28 is missing.

Series 4

• Talk 29
• Talk 30 - Currently not available. Audio file is a duplicate of Talk 29.
• Talk 31
• Talk 32

Series 5

• Talk 33
• Talk 34
• Talk 35
• Talk 36
• Talk 37
• Talk 38