#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  Any recommendation for a first sutra to memorize and recite for a Chan beginner? Thank you. >> I highly recommend that you memorize the uh heart sutra. You can learn to recite it in Chinese. I happen to to like it in Chinese and you can learn in uh any language you like. But that's a very good sutra to learn to recite actually is magical actually very helpful because those are the words of the of the Buddhas and the Buddha's words have a certain calming effect in your meditation. It's magical when you're agitated when you have a lot of worries when you're unhappy can go back to that. I would try to memorize a heart suture. And so we memorize it. And so for us naturally, one thing that we can do it is when we are afflicted, we then simply instead of dwelling our affliction, dwelling on our unhappiness, we focus, switch our attention and recite the sutra. And it takes doesn't take long. Uh it's only in Chinese characters about 250 odd characters or so. So it's very very fast and you recite it and it has this magical power that will help you restore your balance and furthermore it also opens your wisdom increase your concentration open your wisdoms and so forth.