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QUOTE-Dharma of No Dharma

One begins (to practice the dharma of no dharma) with the aspect of the conditioned. One realizes one’s original mind with the aspect of the unconditioned. Realizing there is no mind to realize is enlightenment.”...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Original Mind-Buddha Mind

When the mind of a practitioner engenders faith or confidence and the power of vows, his original mind is as vast as that of a Buddha. There are no Buddhas outside the mind. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III from...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Wonderful Existence/Tathagata-garbha

All dharmas (phenomena) truly exist. One does not eliminate thoughts of the past. One does not cut off thoughts of the future. Through non-attachment, the mind generates the state of wonderful-existence. This is the...

August 3, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 26, 2025

We started Lesson 35 of DCB25 using “So recite the prajna-paramita mantra, recite the mantra that says: gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.” from the Heart Sutra as our text. The...

July 26, 2025

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QUOTE-Correspondence of your three karmas

As for correspondence of your three karmas, they should be in correspondence when you sit on your Dharma-practice seat. Your three karmas should be in correspondence after you get up from your Dharma-practice seat...

July 26, 2025

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Photo of Entrance to the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California with Lucy Lentil guarding the site.

Buddha-dharma Events LFBS Quotes Retreats

Second 30-Day Solitary Retreat at Holy Vajrasana Temple-Part I

Ms. Lucy Lentil guarding Temple entrance. From April 18 to May 18, 2025, Anjurshri (Armine) Alioto from Columbia, Missouri, experienced her second Solitary Silent Thirty-Day Meditation Retreat at the Holy Vajrasana...

July 26, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 20, 2025

We held a class in Hesperia on July 20 with Lesson 1 and 2 from LFBS course DCB21. We first discussed H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s views and approaches to expounding the Dharma included in the Prajna...

July 22, 2025

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QUOTE-What Is the Dharma imparted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III?

It is the same liberation dharma of all Buddhas in the ten directions, the unconditioned dharma that is the absolute truth of the universe and human life, the unsurpassable great dharma leading to no-arising and no...

July 22, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 12, 2025

On July 12 we finished our discussion of DCB25 Lesson 34E using “. . . Which Can Remove All Suffering and Is True, Not False.“ from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are part of the...

July 13, 2025

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QUOTE-Removal of Sins

“How do Buddhas and Bodhisattvas do that? That is done by having people listen to the truths that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas expound. After listening, they have to act accordingly. Only then can they achieve realization...

July 13, 2025

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