Pickled sweet jalapeno pepper with onions and carrots. This was the closest I have been able to get to the delicious strips of sweet jalapeño pepper, the local Yosemite Falls Restaurant has in my favorite south-western...
On July 5 we finished our discussion of DCB25 Lesson 34A using “THEREFORE, KNOW THAT PRAJNA PARAMITA IS THE GREAT SUPERNORMAL MANTRA, . . .”; Lesson 34B using “. . . THE GREAT BRIGHT MANTRA, . . ...
Only when you realize this boundlessly bright lamp [of prajna] can you completely break away from this dark transmigration and end the cycle of birth and death.” Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...
I have been thinking about ways to help people who want to deepen their Dharma practice. This could include those who want to prepare for taking solitary retreats at either the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center...
Breakfast Omelet Salad. This is my invention to salvage a disastrous burrito or wrap version that used basically the same ingredients. If you can manage this rolled up in lettuce leaves, do it. I can’t. I really like...
Lotus at Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Buddhist Town’s annual event included exhibitions, a Wiser tournament, seminars, and an outdoor meditation session by the lake. The event ended with praying and...
On May 28, Venerable Chandima, founder of the Nagananda International Institute for Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka, led a delegation of seven, including five senior monastic elders and two lay practitioners, to Los...
On June 28 we started our discussion of DCB25 lesson 34 using “THEREFORE, KNOW THAT PRAJNA PARAMITA IS THE GREAT SUPERNORMAL MANTRA, . . .” from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are...
Language cannot be used to explain or clearly state the holy power of mantras. Although their meanings are not clear, mantras have tremendously great and unsurpassed empowerment, an effectiveness that leads the...
Bell Pavilion at Mountain Spirit Center (Tae Go Sa), a Korean meditation retreat center and temple near Tehachapi, California. We decided to provide a flyer and background information on Holy Heavenly Lake and the...