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QUOTE-What Dharma Protectors Do

“This is a ‘helping’ dharma, not a “protecting” dharma. It augments or increases the effectiveness of any dharma that is practiced with it. This is an aspect of the Dharma Protectors. They make things work.” H.H...

September 7, 2025

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Lesson Three: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, September 9, 6:00 pm

During the third ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on September 2, 2025, we reviewed all of the teachings on “Initial Breakthrough” mentioned in Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra and...

September 4, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), August 30, 2025

On August 26, 2025 we continued a series of ZOOM discussion on P10-The Great Dharma of Zen Practice and will do this again on September 2 from 6-7:00 pm Pacific Time. CLICK for an article reporting on that...

September 1, 2025

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Lesson Two: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, September 2, 6:00 pm

We held our second ZOOM discussion on Lesson Two: P10-“The Great Dharma of Zen Practice” on August 26, 2025 focusing on two examples of zen practice from ancient times in China– the methods used by the Gaomin...

August 27, 2025

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QUOTE-Wanting to Realize Prajna

. . . when you want to realize prajna, you generate the thought of wanting. That wanting is in and of itself an attachment in the mind consciousness produced by the mind sense base, which is one of the six sense bases...

August 25, 2025

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Seven-Dharma System of Learning the Essence of Dharma Discourses-Updated

Yesterday, August 23, 2025 at our Saturday ZOOM discussion on DCB26-How to Realize Prajna, we discussed how to best proceed with this course which gives us the tools and teachings we need to implement all that we have...

August 24, 2025

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Lesson One: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, August 26, 6:00 pm

“Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. We held our first ZOOM discussion on Lesson One: P10-“The Great Dharma of Zen Practice” on August 19, 2025 focusing on just what “zen” is...

August 22, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), August 17, 2025

We held our Hesperia class on August 17 at 19099 Lemon Street, covering Lessons Three & Four on an “Introduction to Prajna” discussing the translation itself, anuttara-samyak-sambodhi, scattered or...

August 19, 2025

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QUOTE-Reality of All Dharmas

All dharmas are empty, after all. They do not arise or perish. This is what is called the reality of all dharmas.” That is, the six great elements are originally empty. The form of formlessness is called reality...

August 19, 2025

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New Class Starts Tuesday, August 19, 2025: P10-“The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”

“Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The Great Dharma of Zen Practice is a teaching transmitted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2013 to help you develop your mind—to acquire...

August 19, 2025

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