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...
Cover of Chinese book “Learning from Buddha”. We finished our discussion of the second lesson on Learning from Buddha on the concluding part of the complete Buddha Dharma practice. We first reviewed what we...
Sculpture of Ānanda from Wat Khao Rup Chang, Songkhla, Thailand. Why use the expression “Thus Have I Seen (or Heard)”? It is said that Ananda, Shakyamuni Buddha’s cousin and attendant for His last twenty-five years on...
Three-color nectar bestowed at Holy Miracles Temple on March 14, 2014. There are many who do not believe in supernatural phenomena, and others, especially certain Buddhists, who downplay their importance. Perhaps they...
Xuanfa Institute Logo. The following paragraphs, like the last two blog articles, are from the PREFACE from my forthcoming book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I will...
View of the Sierras from the Holy Vajrasana Temple. It is the year 2020, the time of Covid-19, and I am currently sheltered-in-place at the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center in the midst of fruit and nut trees...
Dr. Tiller, a professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, tells us that “the term Psychoenergetics[1] was coined by the Russians in the Soviet era or 1950-1970. This was done...