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...
…no matter what kind of Buddha-dharma one practices, Mahayana, Hinayana, Exoteric or Esoteric Buddhism, as long as it is about Buddha-dharma, one’s crown has to open up to be able to become accomplished. If not...
Language cannot be used to explain or clearly state the holy power of mantras. Although their meanings are not clear, mantras have tremendously great and unsurpassed empowerment, an effectiveness that leads the...
On June 21 we finished our discussion of DCB25 lesson 33 using The Perfection of a Buddha from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are part of the questions discussed: How can one attained anuttara-samyak...
There will be no ZOOM class on either May 24 or 31, but will resume on June 7 at 9:00 am. We finished Lesson 32 of DCB25 using “All Buddhas of the three times rely on prajna-paramita and thereby attain anuttara...
. . . 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...
That which is called truth has many meanings, such as the truth of liberation and worldly truth. That is, what is named truth is the essential meaning realized from the reality that is in between existence and non...
. . . no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path.” That means the four noble truths of suffering, accumulation, cessation, and path inherently do not exist. They do not exist in the truth of Buddha...
We returned to the text of DCB22-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: PART TWO-I at our June 29, 2024 ZOOM session. We discussed Lesson 11B: Dual-use/Two-body Dharma (Yam-Yum) including...