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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 19, 2025?

We finished Lesson 29 of DCB25 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra. The following are some of the...

April 21, 2025

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QUOTE–How do we eliminate fear?

When we realize the prajna wisdom that there is nothing to attain or obtain, we know that all the phenomena I just mentioned that living beings greedily crave are unattainable and unobtainable. We then have no fear at...

April 21, 2025

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A little music, a little Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). I recently received an email from my brother Glenn with an article that I want to share. So much of what he sends me is so distressing but this was something uplifting and since many...

April 21, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 12, 2025?

We continued DCB25 with lesson 29 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra...

April 13, 2025

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QUOTE-What is the meaning of “fear” in the Heart Sutra?

. . . the word “fear” refers to all of the afflictions and sufferings of cyclic existence that hinder the six sense bases and mental state of an ordinary being. It refers to views one is attached to that...

April 13, 2025

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What do Beginning Bodhisattvas Fear?

We started a discussion of what beginning Bodhisattvas fear last week and will continue this Saturday. You can join this discussion. You need to enroll in either DCB25 or C41 AND register with ZOOM. This was a...

April 13, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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