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Buddha-dharma Quotes

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-Original Mind-Buddha Mind

When the mind of a practitioner engenders faith or confidence and the power of vows, his original mind is as vast as that of a Buddha. There are no Buddhas outside the mind. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III from...

August 3, 2025

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Quotes

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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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

New Class Saturday, May 14 on “Benefiting Living Beings”

Ashtamangala. This Saturday, May 14, 2022, from 9-11 am Pacific time, I will read the last part of a preliminary translation of a Dharma Discourse given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III on “Up to Now, I Have Always...

May 10, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Science

Why Evan Thompson Isn’t a Buddhist

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. This article is from a conversation between Sam Littlefair with scholar Evan Thompson about his new book “Why I am not a Buddhist” and why...

April 25, 2021

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What determines if you can understand your mind and see your original nature?

It is not only Zen practitioners who can see their original nature and understand their mind. Any Buddhist who follows an authentic practice can reach the degree of realization whereby they can achieve this level of...

September 2, 2018

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