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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. The Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center has a new video featuring an original song by its Co-Founder, Ven. Pannavati called “Sanctuary” that gives a very nice insight to...

March 17, 2021

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The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center with copy of "Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra" on the altar.

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Saturday Morning Virtual Meditation Practice at the Temple

The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center. Sonya wanted to add a zoom session that would focus on meditation and the rest of us agreed it was a great idea. We never have enough time for meditation...

March 15, 2021

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles Quotes

The 128 Evil and Erroneous Views

Since we will be reviewing each of the 128 views monthly as part of our study and practice of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation, I wanted to publish the original titles given when the Buddha...

March 15, 2021

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Seminar on Correct Way to Listen to Dharma Discourses, The Holy Vajrasana Temple, July 1-4, 2016.

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The Seven-Dharmas System of Listening to Dharma Discourses: Background

I revisited this article in preparing for the application of this system to holding a debate about how the “128 Views” from the SAUMOL would apply to the book The Cat Who Went to Heaven. With a few edits, I...

March 15, 2021

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American Time Zones

I am so sorry that some of you missed the first reading of the third Oceanic Mind-Essence” from the SAUMOL. We have rescheduled it for March 28 so you can catch up. Next Sunday, March 21, we will complete the...

March 15, 2021

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International Women’s Day

Zoom Version of OWABA Ceremony. The top half is the Certificate and flowers being offered to a proxy in North Carolina and the bottom is me on zoom in Sanger, California. I was honored today to receive one of the...

March 8, 2021

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Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020.

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Final series of Erroneous and “Evil Views on Emptiness”Class, March 14, 2021

Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020. We will continue our study of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views...

March 8, 2021

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The Sum of Us

Heather McGhee. Some times a book is written that explains a lot about why we, as a nation, are the way we are. Given the disasters that we have gone through over the past year, I suspect that many of you have asked...

March 7, 2021

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Continue Class on “128 Views” Concerning Holy Manifestations and Supernormal Powers

Holy Mandala of Colored Grains of Sand used in Dharma Assembly. We will continue our study of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views Concerning Holy Manifestations and Supernormal Powers” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable...

March 4, 2021

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Events Science

TIME

Clock. At a recent Open Mike Session one of the participant shared an interesting article on TIME and some scientific reasons why it seems to pass so much faster as you grow older. Remember how long it was waiting for...

March 2, 2021

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