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Discussion on “Eliminating Barriers”

Clouds. At our May 2, 2026 ZOOM class we discussed repentance and the “Dharma to Pass thru Barriers”-a method to help us eliminate the eight types of evil karma that can cause us so much grief on our...

May 3, 2026

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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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QUOTE-Dharma of No Dharma

One begins (to practice the dharma of no dharma) with the aspect of the conditioned. One realizes one’s original mind with the aspect of the unconditioned. Realizing there is no mind to realize is enlightenment.”...

August 3, 2025

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QUOTE-Wonderful Existence/Tathagata-garbha

All dharmas (phenomena) truly exist. One does not eliminate thoughts of the past. One does not cut off thoughts of the future. Through non-attachment, the mind generates the state of wonderful-existence. This is the...

August 3, 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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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 15, 2025?

We finished our discussion on Lesson 27 on the “Hearing the Dharma and Small and Great Dharmas” today. We have also posted a 40-question quiz on this entire lesson for those of you who are enrolled in this course...

March 16, 2025

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QUOTE-Conditioned Dharmas

“All conditioned phenomena are impermanent. Sentient beings will definitely die. Insentient things will definitely perish. There is not one illusory thing that is real.” Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

September 14, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 10, 2024

On February 10, 2024 we started DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by looking at the origins and meaning of Avalokiteshvara’s names. We learned that “unimpeded freedom and...

February 15, 2024

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Dharmas according to the “Prajnaparamita Sutras”

Statue of “Bodhisattvadevi Prajnaparamita,” the Buddhist mainifestation-of-transcendental-wisdom. In our study of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra we found the Buddha Master refer to...

November 23, 2022

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Discussion on “Correspondance, False Practice, and Other Matters” Held on November 5, 2022

More Clouds. This last session on the Preliminary Practices part of the “How to Realize Prajna” discourse contained in Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was held on...

November 5, 2022

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