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Photo of "Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Lesson Four: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, September 23, 6:00 pm-Revised

“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. During the fourth ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on September 9, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma...

September 22, 2025

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Photo of View from the lake of the frontage road and the temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California.

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Free Buddhist Class, September 21, 2025, 10:00 am-3:00 pm-Hesperia, CA

View from the lake of the frontage road and the temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California. I will be reading again from an unpublished translation of Expounding the Absolute...

September 19, 2025

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Temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California.

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, August 2025

Temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California. This month the newsletter features work done to help the Myanmar Earthquake victims and a very nice article on what we are doing there...

September 19, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), September 6, 2025

On September 6, 2025 we continued our discussion of DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna.” You may still join that class (See instructions at bottom of this article) and do the following homework. Listening to the...

September 7, 2025

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Guardstone with guardian deva, naga around head, and dwarf yakshas at the base in front of the Thuparama Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

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Reflection on Lessons Learned: Dharma Protectors

Guardstone with a guardian deva with a multi-headed naga around its head and dwarf yakshas at the base in front of the Thuparama Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. An earlier version of this article has been posted...

September 7, 2025

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Lesson Three: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, September 9, 6:00 pm

During the third ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on September 2, 2025, we reviewed all of the teachings on “Initial Breakthrough” mentioned in Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra and...

September 4, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), August 30, 2025

On August 26, 2025 we continued a series of ZOOM discussion on P10-The Great Dharma of Zen Practice and will do this again on September 2 from 6-7:00 pm Pacific Time. CLICK for an article reporting on that...

September 1, 2025

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Lesson Two: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, September 2, 6:00 pm

We held our second ZOOM discussion on Lesson Two: P10-“The Great Dharma of Zen Practice” on August 26, 2025 focusing on two examples of zen practice from ancient times in China– the methods used by the Gaomin...

August 27, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), August 23, 2025

On August 19, 2025 we started a series of ZOOM discussion on P10-The Great Dharma of Zen Practice and will continue on Tuesday evenings from 6-7:00 pm Pacific Time. CLICK for an article reporting on that class and how...

August 25, 2025

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QUOTE-Wanting to Realize Prajna

. . . when you want to realize prajna, you generate the thought of wanting. That wanting is in and of itself an attachment in the mind consciousness produced by the mind sense base, which is one of the six sense bases...

August 25, 2025

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