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Category - Buddha-dharma

QUOTE-Meditation

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many posssibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. . . . When you have no thoughts of achievement ...

Maha Karuna Dharani-REVISED

Thousand-Armed & Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, Hua Zang Si. Although this was posted originally on October 6, 2022, I wanted to repost it in gratitude for this very special blessing and to include an English...

QUOTE

The concentrated mind understands reality as it is.Shakyamuni Buddha as quoted in Monk Kamalashila’s The Progress of Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas, p. 111.

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If one discerns selflessness (nairatmya) of phenomena, And, if having examined those, one should meditate on that, He has attained the cause for the result of Nirvana. Anything else is not a cause for serenity.” King of...

Group Meditation Sessions

Amitabha Buddha at Hua Zang Si in San Francisco. NOTICE: sessions on hold until April 10. I have started a daily Zoom session from 6:00 to 7:00 pm every day for a group meditation session. I am adding a 30 minute...