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Free Buddhist Class, June 7, 2026, 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 I will be reading again from an unpublished translation of Expounding the Absolute...

June 3, 2026

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Series of Classes on the Heart Sutra continuing at Holy Heavenly Lake, Hesperia, California

Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Starting July 20, 2025, I read from a preliminary translation of EXPOUNDING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH THROUGH THE HEART SUTRA and started a discussion of what H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III...

June 1, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), May 23, 2026

We finished our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on May 23, 2026, by finishing Lesson Five: Self-Examination and Implementation, Assignment 7. This discussion included the questions below. Everyone attending...

May 24, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), May 9, 2026

We continued our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on May 9, 2026, almost finishing Lesson Five: Self-Examination and Implementation, Assignment 7. This discussion included the classic zen story about “Two Monks and a...

May 14, 2026

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Two Monks, a River, & a Woman

Two monks, a river , & a woman. There was another zen story that we remembered in response to the questions asked at our May 9 class that is liked to the one last week on the “Eight Winds” and how those...

May 13, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), May 2, 2026

We continued our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on May 2, 2026, finishing Lesson Four: Tantra-Main & Concluding Practices, Assignment 6 and started Lesson Five: Self-Examination and Implementation, Assignment 7...

May 7, 2026

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The Four Opponent Powers and Vajrasattva Practice

Painting of Vajrasattva Mahasattva by Zhaxi Zhuoma This article on the Four R’s or Opponent Powers or Forces is a reposting of an article posted over two years ago on how to repent. If you find certain weaknesses...

May 3, 2026

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What’s Moving? A Zen Story

Rock in a Zen Garden, Kyoto, Japan. At our ZOOM class today on DCB35-Learning from Buddha, we discussed the “Eight Winds”. Someone asked what they were. Another Zen story, that of Su Dongpo (1037-1101) and...

May 2, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), April 25, 2026

We continued our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on April 25, 2026 starting Lesson Four: Tantra-Main & Concluding Practices, Assignment 6. We are almost finished with this course and have scheduled Dorje...

April 28, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), April 5, 2026

We started our 2026 series of Hesperia classes on April 5 at 19099 Lemon Street, covering Lessons Seven & Eight on “Three Kinds of Prajna” discussing the third–Intrinsic-reality prajna. The...

April 5, 2026

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