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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 5, 2025

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, . . ...

July 9, 2025

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QUOTE-Transmigration

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...

July 9, 2025

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBS Retreats

Interested in Group Meditation Retreat in the Mountains?

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...

July 8, 2025

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Breakfast Omelet Salad

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...

July 7, 2025

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, June 2025

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...

July 3, 2025

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, May 2025

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...

July 3, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), June 28, 2025

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...

July 2, 2025

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QUOTE-What Mantras Do

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...

July 2, 2025

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Photo of Bell Pavilion at (Mountain Spirit Center (Tae Go Sa) near Tehachapi, California.

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Visiting Various Buddhist Temples near Holy Heavenly Lake, Hesperia, California

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...

June 30, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), June 21, 2025

On June 21 we finished our discussion of DCB25 lesson 33 using The Perfection of a Buddha from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are part of the questions discussed: How can one attained anuttara-samyak...

June 25, 2025

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