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Buddha-dharma Quotes

Quote-Meditation, Vipashyana

Distilling words about phenomena should be known as the path of samatha, While a full analysis of their meanings should be known as the path of special insight (vipashyana). “Mahayana Sutralamkara (Ornament for the...

February 27, 2023

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Quote-Meditation, Samatha

Samatha is a one-pointed mind; special insight (vipashyana) is fine investigation” The Cloud of Jewels of Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha

February 27, 2023

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

Samatha and Vipashyana or Special Insight

I want to share some background in preparation for our classes on the Paramitas–especially the last two, Meditation and Wisdom. I found that Tsongkapa in one of his many lamrims, the Middle-Length Treatise on the...

February 27, 2023

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QUOTE-Meditation, Beginner’s Mind

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many posssibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. . . . When you have no thoughts of achievement ...

February 27, 2023

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Kamalashila & His Three Bhavanakramas

Kamalashila (740-795) Kamalashila was a great Indian scholar and the main disciple of the Abbot of Nalanda Monastery, Shantarakshita. Shantarakshita (725-788) is considered the last of the great Indian Buddhist scholars...

February 26, 2023

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Events

United Meditation/Prayer for Peace and a Great Awakening for Our Planet

Baima Gabu Rinpoche brought us a notice of an event that I wanted to share with you. There will be an eight-day meditation/prayer offered for peace and a great awakening of our planet, starting Sunday March 5th to...

February 25, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 22, 2023

Our ZOOM discussion on February 18 finished Lesson 4 and began Lesson 5, continuing our study of the three types of prajna from DCB21 on the components of the title of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

February 22, 2023

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Maha Karuna Dharani-REVISED

Thousand-Armed & Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, Hua Zang Si. Although this was posted originally on October 6, 2022, I wanted to repost it in gratitude for this very special blessing and to include an English...

February 21, 2023

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QUOTE-Concentrated Mind

The concentrated mind understands reality as it is.Shakyamuni Buddha as quoted in Monk Kamalashila’s The Progress of Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas, p. 111.

February 20, 2023

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QUOTE-Three Types of Prajna

If one discerns selflessness (nairatmya) of phenomena, And, if having examined those, one should meditate on that, He has attained the cause for the result of Nirvana. Anything else is not a cause for serenity.” King of...

February 20, 2023

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