View of Protector Chapel taken during Solitary Retreat. I believe this article by Anjurshri Alioto should be read by anyone interested in what can happen on an extended solitary retreat and how we can all receive holy...
This is one thing that is especially important to know. Buddha-dharma is to be applied to the world and attain enlightenment from the Buddha-dharma cannot be separated from worldly attains. There is no Buddha-dharma...
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 I will be reading again from an unpublished translation of Expounding the Absolute...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...