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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 23, 2024

On March 23, 2024 we finished our study of four of the Five Aggregates from DCB22-  Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I  by studying form, feeling, conceptualization, and action. Next week we will study consciousness. We also added R97X-Solitary Retreat- Xiuxing Practice Program to the LFBCS curriculum. The following are key points from last week’s class:

What Is the Form Aggregate?

The Buddha Master gave us many examples to illustrate this. Forms

What Is the Literal Meaning of the Feeling? Aggregate?

The Buddha Master gave examples and further explained that

What is the Literal Meaning of Conceptualization?

The Chinese character for this aggregate literally means to think. The Buddha Master tells us that

What is the Action Aggregate?

The Chinese character for this aggregate is 行 (xing), which literally means to go, to do, to act, to practice, behavior, deeds, etc.  There are various translations of this aggregate, such as the aggregate of action, volition, mental formation, impulse, intention, conditioning factors.

Does Doing Good Deeds Cause One to be Liberated?

No, but it may cause one to be reborn in more auspicious conditions, being reborn in the good realms of samsara. Both bad deeds and good deeds entail causality,

What is Needed to Become Liberated from Samsara?

The Buddha Master provided the encounter of King Yama with the scholar and expert of dhyana, Zhang Zaixi, as an example of this.

What Are the Three Sources of Action?

We will continue this discussion at our March 30 ZOOM session starting at 9:00 am by exploring the last of the Five Aggregates- the eight types of consciousness (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, manas, and alaya).

The recording of the March 23 class is now available. You must be enrolled in DCB22 in one of the membership programs at the LFBCS to access the course materials, questions covered (in parenthesis), and/or the class recordings. Please note that these links will only work if you are logged into LFBCS with your membership Identification number AND are enrolled in this class. Please note that Lessons 6A and 6B are part of Course C41.

March 23, 2024: Lesson 10B-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Five Aggregates”,   (144-154) and (HERE) for recording of class.

March 16, 2024: Lesson 10A-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Five Aggregates”,   (114-143) and (HERE) for recording of class.

March 16, 2024: Lesson 9B.2-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Two Levels”,   (108-113) and (HERE) for recording of class.

March 9, 2024: Lesson 9B.1-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Two Levels”,   (87-107) and (HERE) for recording of class.

March 9, 2024: Lesson 9A.3-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Practicing Deeply”,   (78-86) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 24, 2024: Lesson 9A.2-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Practicing Deeply”,   (59-77) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 17, 2024: Lesson 9A.1-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Practicing Deeply”,   (51-58) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 17, 2024: Lesson 8C-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Bodhisattva”,   (37-50) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 17, 2024: Lesson 8BThe Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Avalokiteshvara”,   (31-36) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 10, 2024: Lesson 8A-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart SutraI, “Avalokiteshvara”,   (1-30) and (HERE) for recording of class.

February 3, 2024: Lesson 6B-The Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Prajna(Wisdom) & Dhyana(Ta), (355-369) and HERE for recording of class.

January 20, 2024: Lesson 6AThe Great Stage–Wisdom Path of the right view of emptiness, Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Prajna & Dhyana(Ta), (317-354) and HERE for recording of class.

CLICK for article on the entire text of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.

CLICK for article with instructions on how to enroll in LFBCS classes and how to register for the ZOOM discussions.

CLICK for course DCB21-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: Forwards, Introductions, & Title.

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