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QUOTE–Eight Winds & Five Vidyas

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...

QUOTE-Transforming Causality

Cultivation is to change the order of the maturing of causes and effects. The goal of cultivation is to actually transform causality. You decide which should mature earlier and which should be made to mature later. You...

QUOTE – Eleven Principles

1-Stay far away from feudal superstition, etc.; 2-Strictly abide by the precept; 3-Take great compassion as foundation; 4-Do not do anything that is evil; 5-Do all things that are good; 6-Give up self-interests and...

Suicide

At our class held on August 9, someone asked about suicide–whether people who commit suicide go to hell and, if so, will they be there forever? My response was, as I understand it, yes and no. Yes, they do go to...