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The Great Dharma of Zen Practice in Brief

Pilgrims meditating with the Holy Vajra Poles.at the Holy Vajrasana temple. This article provides a brief summary of the teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha iII on zen meditation practice. You should read the entire...

March 29, 2026

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QUOTE-Wonderful Existence/Tathagata-garbha

All dharmas (phenomena) truly exist. One does not eliminate thoughts of the past. One does not cut off thoughts of the future. Through non-attachment, the mind generates the state of wonderful-existence. This is the...

August 3, 2025

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Photo of Entrance to the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California with Lucy Lentil guarding the site.

Buddha-dharma Events LFBS Quotes Retreats

Second 30-Day Solitary Retreat at Holy Vajrasana Temple-Part I

Ms. Lucy Lentil guarding Temple entrance. From April 18 to May 18, 2025, Anjurshri (Armine) Alioto from Columbia, Missouri, experienced her second Solitary Silent Thirty-Day Meditation Retreat at the Holy Vajrasana...

July 26, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), July 20, 2025

We held a class in Hesperia on July 20 with Lesson 1 and 2 from LFBS course DCB21. We first discussed H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s views and approaches to expounding the Dharma included in the Prajna...

July 22, 2025

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QUOTE–Meditation

Meditation practice involves realizing the concept of emptiness, realizing that phenomena are devoid of characteristics or attributes, realizing non-attachment, cutting off deluded thoughts, and returning to one’s...

February 5, 2025

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QUOTE-Marvelous Existence

It clearly illustrates the truth that true emptiness is marvelous existence. Although all phenomena are illusory, if one is not attached to them, then marvelous existence will transform into true emptiness. If one is...

July 21, 2024

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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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Quote-Meditation, Vipashyana

Distilling words about phenomena should be known as the path of samatha, While a full analysis of their meanings should be known as the path of special insight (vipashyana). “Mahayana Sutralamkara (Ornament for the...

February 27, 2023

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Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020.

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Final series of Erroneous and “Evil Views on Emptiness”Class, March 14, 2021

Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020. We will continue our study of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views...

March 8, 2021

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The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform

Three-color nectar bestowed at Holy Miracles Temple on March 14, 2014. There are many who do not believe in supernatural phenomena, and others, especially certain Buddhists, who downplay their importance. Perhaps they...

November 28, 2020

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