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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 11, 2025

Today we discussed the methods used by different schools and traditions to attain awakening including the Chan/Zen School, the Dharma Characteristics-Consciousness Only School, the Pure Land School, the Huayen...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-Supreme Prajna

Only after the manas and alaya consciousnesses are also completely emptied can one enter the correct wisdom of prajna; that is, the state of supreme prajna. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra ...

January 10, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 4, 2025

We started our discussion today of the mahayana state of prajna expressed in the words “…no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path; . . .” from the Heart Sutra. The following is a...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-Mahayana State of Prajna expressed in Four Noble Truths

The unreal is the real. The real is the unreal. The holy and the mundane are fundamentally one and the same. It only takes one thought that leads to awakening to awaken to the truth that samsara is nirvana. In this...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-The Four Noble Truths

. . . no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path.” That means the four noble truths of suffering, accumulation, cessation, and path inherently do not exist. They do not exist in the truth of Buddha...

December 28, 2024

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QUOTE-Buddhism, Do you apply it?

You light incense, go to the dharma assemblies to get benefits. You just attend and do not learn anything. You must not just listen. Learning Buddhism requires putting into practice what you learn. Learn from authentic...

December 22, 2024

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Photo of Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha from the Cave Temples of Dunhuang, China.

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The Upayakausalya Sutra

Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha from the Cave Temples of Dunhuang, China. I believe the story we discussed at yesterday’s seminar on the SAUMOL is from the Skill-in-Means or Skillful Means Sutra (Upāyakauśalya-sūtra)...

December 14, 2024

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The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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Correct Use of the Sutras and Other Holy Works

The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. In the very last part of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra the Buddha...

December 12, 2024

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QUOTE-Who can hear the Dharma?

Both humans and non-humans can listen to a Buddha expound Dharma. Therefore, to say that only humankind can listen to the true Dharma is extremely selfish speech. Buddha Dharma in the heavenly realms is higher than...

December 12, 2024

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S01-SAUMOL Seminar continues December 14, 2024

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. On December 7 we continued our discussion of the introduction and Xiamen Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-essence parts of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) with Reba...

December 8, 2024

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