Zhaxi Zhuoma, Author at Thus Have I Seen (and Heard)

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The Peapeople of Sonora

At least once a year, we plan a trip to Sonora, California to visit a menagerie of wild turkeys, peafowl, cats, deer, etc. Four new peachicks have joined the ostentation of peafowl that have congregated at Reba and...

June 10, 2018

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Photo of H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his Palyul Retreat Center with Kenpo Tenzin Norgay who served as our translator. Photograph taken after our audience with His Holiness at his North American headquarters and retreat near McDonough, New York.

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Why talk about “Miracles” and supernatural powers?

In 2008, I had the good fortune to meet with H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his American retreat center in upstate New York and heard the former head of the Nyingma Sect, the oldest Buddhist lineage in Tibet, praise H.H. Dorje...

June 10, 2018

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Akou Lamo Rinpoche leading Dharma Assembly at Hua Zang Si in San Francisco.

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The Real Meaning of the Five Vidyas & the Eight WInds

Akou Lamo Rinpoche stated that traditionally, the vidyas are divided into the five major vidyas and the five minor vidyas. The five major vidyas are the silpakarmasthanavidya (craftsmanship vidya), the cikitsvidya...

June 10, 2018

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One Must Manifest the Five Vidyas to Be a Great Holy One

It has been said that some people who are not proficient in the Five Vidyas are still Bodhisattvas, but how can this be? Just being kind, doing good deeds, and being generous with others is good practice and should be...

June 10, 2018

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Correct View on Opening of the Crown: Erroneous View #56

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha has told us that only when the crown opens up, even with a tiny opening, can the basic accomplishment of ending the cycle of rebirth and death be reached. One cannot achieve liberation without...

June 2, 2018

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State Practice & Enlightenment Practice are not the Yab-yum dharma

The Buddha Master clearly notes from the first of the ten articles for special attention in the Holiest Utmost Secret Sutra of The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL), that we can not regard...

June 2, 2018

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Receiving the Ni-Wan Lambre (Mud-Pill) Dharma–A State Practice

I was able to have my own crown opened through the Ni-Wan Lambre or Mud-Pill Dharma, a State Practice from The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation. It was an awesome experience that produces concrete...

June 1, 2018

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QUOTE–What Is Cultivation?

Cultivation is cultivating the increase of good karma and cultivating the avoidance of bad karma. It is increasing good karmic conditions, planting good causes, and reaping good effects. It is avoiding the increase of...

May 20, 2018

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What Is Cultivation? Evil Views #16 & #29, and Erroneous Views #1, #2, #4, #5, #9, #33, #47, & #89

Many of the evil and erroneous views pertain to cultivation because there are many incorrect teachings on this matter. The most complete and helpful writing on this can be found in The Dharma of Cultivation Transmitted...

May 20, 2018

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Photo of Buddha Light at Holy Vajrasana Temple, November 21, 2023.

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Great Holy Beings Showed Their Approval

Great Holy Beings showed their approval when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first gave the discourse “What Is Cultivation?” that was published in both English and Chinese as The Dharma of Cultivation...

May 20, 2018

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