Category - LFBCS

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Quotes

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 5, 2025?

We started DCB25, the last class on the text of the Heart Sutra with lesson 29 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance” from the Heart Sutra. The following...

April 6, 2025

Add comment

35 views

9 min read

Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Bodhisattvas Rely on Prajna-paramita

“. . . after we have achieved the state of practicing prajna, we are in the dharma-realm of Bodhisattvas. Bodhisattvas are those who enlighten sentient beings. Relying on the wonderful wisdom of prajna, they...

April 6, 2025

Add comment

8 views

1 min read

Art Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

“The Life of Milarepa” available at LFBCS

Statue of Milarepa. Another reposting of earlier article to bring awareness to an excellent class at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary on the great Patriarch Milarepa. B26-The Life of Milarepa I am very happy to...

April 4, 2025

Add comment

194 views

3 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Quotes

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 29, 2025?

We finished Lesson 28 today and LFBCS class DCB24 and these words from the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, “With nothing to attain, therefore, . . . ”. The following are some of the questions addressed during this ZOOM...

March 31, 2025

Add comment

34 views

7 min read

Art Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

Jade Emperor

The Jade Emperor, Ming dynasty (16th century) painting, White Cloud Temple, Beijing, China. Questions were raised about just who the Jade Emperor is at our recent ZOOM discussion on Expounding the Absolute Truth through...

March 31, 2025

Add comment

22 views

7 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Quotes

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 22, 2025?

We started Lesson 28 today on “With nothing to attain, therefore, . . . ” with a discussion of the terms “inclusion” and these words from the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra. The following are some of the...

March 23, 2025

Add comment

56 views

10 min read

Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE-Ending the Cycle of Birth & Death

Only after we realize the state of nothing to attain can we transform consciousness into wisdom. If we cannot transform consciousness into wisdom, then we have not truly ended the cycle of birth and death. Expounding...

March 23, 2025

Add comment

15 views

1 min read

Buddha-dharma LFBCS

Difference between Buddha Nature & Dharma Nature

Kings Canyon. The question was asked about the difference between Buddha Nature and Dharma Nature in class on Lesson 28 concerning attainment. Although we thought the terms were sometimes used interchangeably, we did...

March 22, 2025

1 comment

36 views

2 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Quotes

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 15, 2025?

We finished our discussion on Lesson 27 on the “Hearing the Dharma and Small and Great Dharmas” today. We have also posted a 40-question quiz on this entire lesson for those of you who are enrolled in this course...

March 16, 2025

Add comment

46 views

10 min read

Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE-The Mahamudra of Liberation

The mahamudra of liberation is supremely venerable. Not abiding in self or phenomena is the mind of prajna. One instantly achieves transcendence and directly enters the state of realization based on the convergence of...

March 16, 2025

Add comment

20 views

1 min read