Today we started our discussion on Lesson 24 of DCB24-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-III with the meaning of the line from the Heart Sutra that says “. . . no wisdom and also no attainment.” The...
It is the truth of emptiness by which one realizes emptiness but is not attached to emptiness. Realizing emptiness, one penetrates the empty forms or characteristics, knowing there is no form or characteristic to...
Santa Monica closeup after January 2025 fire. Photo-journalist Fabian Lewkowicz traveled along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) to document the severe aftermath of the Palisades Fire and captured this close up in Santa...
Viewing Great Perfection Rainbow Lights. I wanted to share a video I just found about one of the amazing holy manifestations that I experienced while with the Buddha Master. This event happened in 2006 in Pasadena. This...
“Amazing View of the World” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The following article is a slightly modified version of an article published in 2004 on the inner tantric Dharma Wheel Initiation I...
Last week I found another delicious way to eat cauliflower. I already have a lemon-grass and cauliflower soup that is wonderful, but this roasted seasoned slab of vegetable marinated in and topped with more Greek...
All six of the courses related to Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra have been posted. DCB25, the last of the courses on the actual text of the Heart Sutra is now ready. We continued with DCB24 today...
That which is called truth has many meanings, such as the truth of liberation and worldly truth. That is, what is named truth is the essential meaning realized from the reality that is in between existence and non...
Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One, H.H...
Kyabjé Dodrupchen Rinpoche Thupten Thrinle Palzang (1927-2022), an incarnation of Guru Padmasambhava and also known as the fourth H.H. Dodrupchen Rinpoche, was the holiest great dharma king within the Nyingma lineage...