Originally this article was published September 23, 2024. I have revised the information on P04X-Green Tara Dharma to better define the requirements. I am posting it as I decided during my retreat last fall that I would...
My book about my experience in being a close disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is now available in PDF format to read online or download. CLICK for link. Articles on a draft version were published on this blog in...
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...
There will be no ZOOM class on June 14, but will resume on June 21 at 9:00 am. We started Lesson 33 of DCB25 using The Perfection of a Buddha from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are...
We finished Lesson 29 of DCB25 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra. The...
When we realize the prajna wisdom that there is nothing to attain or obtain, we know that all the phenomena I just mentioned that living beings greedily crave are unattainable and unobtainable. We then have no fear at...
We continued DCB25 with lesson 29 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra...
. . . the word “fear” refers to all of the afflictions and sufferings of cyclic existence that hinder the six sense bases and mental state of an ordinary being. It refers to views one is attached to that...
We started a discussion of what beginning Bodhisattvas fear last week and will continue this Saturday. You can join this discussion. You need to enroll in either DCB25 or C41 AND register with ZOOM. This was a...
The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California, with copy of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” on altar. Although this article was to introduce DCB22, the...