It is not difficult
To grasp the sky,
And wander about with it
From place to place.

It is difficult
To copy and keep this sutra
Or cause others to copy it
After my extinction.

So I guess I should not be surprised that there is a limit to how much you can copy from the Kindle version of The Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma, Translated from the Chinese by Senchu Murano.

Each day I read 1/32nd of the Lotus Sutra, copy the quotes that touch me that day and paste the results here in my “32 Days of Lotus Sutra” column.

I started this back on Sept. 14, 2015, and I’m on my fourth time through at the moment. I hope to continue many, many more days. I’d like to do it for years. I really see no reason to stop.

The great benefit of copying from the Kindle edition was the accuracy, especially the diacritical marks. I couldn’t possibly type accurately enough to do this project manually, and I certainly couldn’t match the diacritical marks.

Instead I’m left to use photocopies of the book pages that have been converted to text with optical character recognition. Unfortunately, that’s only about 98% accurate and it strips all of the diacritical marks.

So in advance I apologize that the quotes won’t contain the diacritical marks and may include unfortunate typos.