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Photo of "Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Lesson Six: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, November 11, 6:00 pm

“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. During the sixth ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on November 4, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma of...

November 5, 2025

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Photo of Holy Heavenly Lake, Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California.

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, September 2025

Holy Heavenly Lake, Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Since mid-August, when Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche began leading English-language Buddhist study sessions at Holy Heavenly Lake, some KAC youth have shown interest and...

October 24, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), September 27, 2025

On September 27, 2025 we continued our discussion of DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna.” You may still join that class (See instructions at bottom of this article along with links to previous lessons.) and do the following...

September 28, 2025

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Photo of Craig's Cabin at Camp de Benneville Pines.

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Group Meditation Retreat Held in San Bernadino Mountains

Craig’s Cabin at Camp de Benneville Pines. The sound of chipmunks chatter, wind, bird song and silence. That was the primary sound I heard from our wonderful recent four-day meditation retreat in the San Bernadino...

September 23, 2025

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Photo of View from the lake of the frontage road and the temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California.

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Free Buddhist Class, September 21, 2025, 10:00 am-3:00 pm-Hesperia, CA

View from the lake of the frontage road and the temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California. I will be reading again from an unpublished translation of Expounding the Absolute...

September 19, 2025

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Temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California.

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, August 2025

Temporary home of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center, Hesperia, California. This month the newsletter features work done to help the Myanmar Earthquake victims and a very nice article on what we are doing there...

September 19, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), September 6, 2025

On September 6, 2025 we continued our discussion of DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna.” You may still join that class (See instructions at bottom of this article) and do the following homework. Listening to the...

September 7, 2025

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Guardstone with guardian deva, naga around head, and dwarf yakshas at the base in front of the Thuparama Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

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Reflection on Lessons Learned: Dharma Protectors

Guardstone with a guardian deva with a multi-headed naga around its head and dwarf yakshas at the base in front of the Thuparama Stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. An earlier version of this article has been posted...

September 7, 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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