Category - Buddha-dharma

Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Retreats to Continue Study the Sutra based on Heart Sutra Planned

There will be two more long retreats to continue our study of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s sutra based on the Heart Sutra from the preliminary English translation of Imparting the Absolute Truth Through the Heart...

June 9, 2019

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Erroneous View Concerning the Five Great Pills: Erroneous View #30

There are five great pills: the vajra pill, the great treasure pill, the supreme treasure pill, the nectar pill, and the long life pill. It is a very good thing to have one of these pills, but they are not what enables...

June 2, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

Lesson Learned from Meeting the Great Holy Wangzha Shangzun

Over three and a half years ago, I had the extremely good and rare fortune to meet the great Holy Wangzha Shangzun. It was after the amazing Jin Gang Fa Man Ze Jue Dharma Assembly to determine whether Shakyamuni...

May 29, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

Wangzha Shangzun visits the Holy Miracles Temple

In the afternoon of March 6, 2019, peals of thunder could be heard rumbling above the sky of the Holy Miracles Temple, sounding like giant earthquakes and landslides. The rain came pouring down rapidly. The Grand Hall...

March 19, 2019

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Correct Views Concerning Emptiness: Evil View #10

Last week we covered both the evil views that “Substantialism in which Worldly Phenomena Truly Exists and Are Not Illusory” and “Emptiness is Separate from and Independent of Worldly Phenomena.”...

March 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Negative Karma

No matter how heavy your negative karma is, as long as you sincerely repent, become a good person, cultivate yourself well, and learn the dharma well, you, too, can attain accomplishment.” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha...

March 10, 2019

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Does everyone have the seed to become a Buddha? Erroneous View #31

Yes. It is not correct to think that you have done so many evil things that you cannot become a Buddha. Consider Angulimala and Milarepa who were both serial killers who became enlightened holy ones after learning and...

March 10, 2019

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The Story of Angulimala

The following account of the serial killer who became an enlightened disciple of the Buddha is from “Angulimala, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy in Great Briton.” I liked it because of its source and...

March 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Miracles Quotes

Quote-Worldly Phenomena

One must understand that emptiness is not separate from worldly phenomena. After realizing emptiness, one knows that form is emptiness and emptiness is form. The two are not mutually incompatible. The fundamental truth...

March 3, 2019

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"Carved Stones" by Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang.

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What is Reality? Evil Views #7 & #8

The Buddha’s teaching of the “Middle Way” manifests in many ways in Buddhism. One way is the view that reality is based on all things being material or eternal as seen in “substantialism”...

March 3, 2019

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