We finished Lesson 25 today, focusing on “Prajna Is Unequaled Dharma” and exploring why this is so, Phowa Dharma, and other matters related to esoteric Buddhism. The following are some of the questions addressed during...
Practitioners must especially bear in mind that becoming awakened to the reality state of the three prajnas is not tantamount to attaining liberation and does not mean that cultivation is no longer needed. I previously...
There is the state where for the first time suddenly delusive thoughts are removed, such that the prior thought is already gone, and the next thought has not yet arisen. After achieving such a state or after realizing...
Thus, it cannot be said that attaining awakening is equal to ending the cycle of birth and death and results in elimination of karmic hindrances. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One, H.H...
All wisdom comes from dhyana. Without dhyana, what arises is worldly cleverness or intelligence. The dhyana of practitioners of non-Buddhist ways falls into the categories of two types of emptiness—nihilistic...
We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing the remaining links 9-12 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” grasping, existence, birth, and aging...
In the introduction to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s book “Learning From Buddha,” the Buddha Master tells us that we should: Stay far away from feudal superstition, strange or heretically induced...