We returned to the text of DCB22-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: PART TWO-I at our June 29, 2024 ZOOM session. We discussed Lesson 11B: Dual-use/Two-body Dharma (Yam-Yum) including...
Modern sculpture of Nagarjuna (150-250). In our Saturday class this week we discussed how our feelings and emotions impacted our lives and our Dharma practice. I promised to research and share what the Buddha Master...
The Buddha also specified that those beneficial things taken out of the eight dharmas of gain, loss, honor, disgrace, praise, ridicule, pleasure, and suffering are called the Five Vidyas. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in...
Today we finished our discussion Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) Course DCB26 “How to Realize Prajna”. We covered the remaining questions in Lesson 39-“Receiving Formal or Main Practice”...
I added another question and related quote to the summary of the May 4, 2024 Class on DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna”. It relates to what Buddhists, even Bodhisattvas, should do to deal with those who do great...
False practice includes how one handles all worldly matters as well as one’s view of unconditioned phenomena. That is, in one’s Dharma practice and in developing one’s view of emptiness, one practices...
Today, we finished our ZOOM discussion of the Dharma to Pass through Barriers in Lesson 39, Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) class DCB26 “How to Realize Prajna.” The discussion focused on what is...
I tell all of you that learning from Buddha is not a matter of self-deception, where you learn for a while, yet everything you have done is false. That is why in my last Dharma discourse I said that if you dare not...
We finished our ZOOM discussion of Lesson 38-Preliminary Practices, Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) class DCB26 “How to Realize Prajna” on May 25, 2024. The discussion focused on the three...
The difference between the completion stage and the generation stage is mainly in the naturalness with which one acts. People at the completion stage do not consider either merit or demerit. Once they have acted, they...