Like Voltaire’s great character, Candide, it is time to cultivate my garden. Someone teased me that my New Year’s resolutions to seek more joy (and I was finding that joy in growing herbs and greens) sounded...
The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. At our class last week someone asked about the various heavens and hells as expressed in...
“Tiger,” a painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. We will continue our study of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) next Sunday...
Private Class on the SAUMOL in the Abbot’s Study, Holy Vajrasana Temple. We are a little bit back in business. This weekend we had two students come to study the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation...
“Learning from Buddha” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Last Sunday we met to reflect on what we learned from our study of Learning from Buddha. The previous week we raised our remaining questions and probed...
Lifting the pool The following paragraphs represent another story from Chapter Two of my book Thus Have I Seen: The MarvelousTrue Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform: In order to study and learn the Dharma with H.H...
“Learning from Buddha” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. We finished our study of Learning from Buddha and will spend this week following our debate process. We will continue to use the “Seven-Dharmas System”...
Glass of Water. The following paragraph is from a story that I do not believe I have shared before on this blog from Chapter Two of Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform where I...
“Learning from Buddha” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. We will begin the third of the three lessons in Learning from Buddha on “If You Do Not Put into Practice the Lessons You Have Heard on...