Site of future center for Xuanfa Institute at Buddha Town in Hesperia, CA. March newsletter for Holy Heavenly Lake Buddhist Town is now available. More information on Ven. Chandima and his return to participate in the...
We have changed the name from Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) to Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS) to reflect our focus more on the “practice” and not the “academic” side of our programs. It was...
Dream-thinking also refers to the four kinds of dreaming minds that are produced from the internal consciousness—arising, abiding, changing, and delusion. These four kinds of dreaming minds are like ropes that bind...
The ultimate nirvana that is referred to here in the Heart Sutra means becoming a Buddha. Once one forever leaves the four kinds of dreaming minds, one ends the five underlying grounds of affliction. Expounding the...
Model of Leonardo’s robot with inner workings. Possibly constructed by Leonardo da Vinci around 1495. I know some of you are using Chat GPT or other forms of A.I. and thought you might enjoy this recent New York...
Eggs Florentine. Eggs and spinach are always good together. This is just a contemporary version of a classic. I’m using my air fryer again as I am cooking in my cave instead of the temple kitchen. I do that when...
We finished Lesson 29 of DCB25 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra. The following are some of the...
When we realize the prajna wisdom that there is nothing to attain or obtain, we know that all the phenomena I just mentioned that living beings greedily crave are unattainable and unobtainable. We then have no fear at...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). I recently received an email from my brother Glenn with an article that I want to share. So much of what he sends me is so distressing but this was something uplifting and since many...