Studying “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” Oryoki lunch during the retreat. We spent Independence Day and the following week on retreat and by chanting, studying Expounding the Absolute Truth...
Oryoki breakast during Memorial Day Retreat 2021. The retreat was held under COVID rules requiring masks except for meals and social distancing, but we managed to cover all of Part One which just explained each word in...
The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California. Fresno County is now in the moderate COVID Restriction Zone (ORANGE) and assuming it stays there, I would like to plan for Seminar...
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. The Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center has a new video featuring an original song by its Co-Founder, Ven. Pannavati called “Sanctuary” that gives a very nice insight to...
Private Class on the SAUMOL in the Abbot’s Study, Holy Vajrasana Temple. We are a little bit back in business. This weekend we had two students come to study the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation...
The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California. The Governor has reinstated closing places of worship in Fresno County, California. However, we will still offer a few more people the...
After the internet crashing, I did not think we would have an Open Mike again this week, but it came back in time to proceed and resulted in an excellent session, as they usually are. For those of you who were not there...
Last weekend we held a mini-retreat with three socially distanced guests for an intensive study of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. We will try and do this once a month to enable as many as possible...
We are continuing to shelter-in-place in California. It is possible for individuals to come and read the preliminary translations we have on kindle of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra or the Supreme...
Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China. Introduction: We are about to study the great dharma of zen practice that H.H. Dorje...