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Tag - Shakyamuni Buddha

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The concentrated mind understands reality as it is.Shakyamuni Buddha as quoted in Monk Kamalashila’s The Progress of Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas, p. 111.

February 20, 2023
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If one discerns selflessness (nairatmya) of phenomena, And, if having examined those, one should meditate on that, He has attained the cause for the result of Nirvana. Anything else is not a cause for serenity.” King of...

February 20, 2023
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Quote-Repaying Kindness

The sea is not my problem, My task is not the mountain, My job is not the earth; My calling’s rather to attend That I should never fail Repaying kindness granted me. Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines...

January 8, 2023
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Eight Treasure (Laba) Congee

We celebrate the year-end retreat around Rohatsu, the Japanese term for the day of Shakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment. In Japan they use the Gregorian Calendar and celebrate the day on the eighth day of December, but we...

December 30, 2022
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Photo of Venerable Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves
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The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra

Translated and edited from the Chinese (Kumarajiva ed. T.475) by Charles Luk (Lu K’uan Yi) in 1972. CHAPTER ONE: THE BUDDHA LAND Thus have I heard, once upon a time the Buddha sojourned in the Amra park at Vaisali...

June 1, 2021
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Diamond Sutra

Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha from the Cave Temples of Dunhuang, China Silk Road. We discussed a lovely English chanting of the Diamond Sutra at a recent class and I wanted to provide you with a link to both the...

March 9, 2021
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