2023
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The Four Noble Truths Dharma
The Four Noble Truths DharmaJUL/22/ 2023—JUL / 23/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Two thousand and five hundred years ago, the prince of Kapilavastu, whose name was Siddhāttha Gotama attained the enlightenment after seven days of sitting meditation under the Bodhi tree. He became the well-known Buddha Sakyamuni. After his enlightenment, he kept silent for seven weeks. Finally, he walked to saraṅga-nāthá from Bodhgaya and taught the Four Noble Truths Dharma for the five bhiksu. What exactly is “the Four Noble Truth”? Why did the Buddha taught it at the first turning of the Dharma wheel? Dukkha, samudaya (“arising,” “coming together”), nirodha…
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Nirvana Dharma Mark
Nirvana Dharma MarkJUL/15/ 2023— JUL / 16/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. In the last three weeks, we talked about the contents of the three marks of Dharma, the significance of the cultivation and religious, and discussed the connections between the three marks of Dharma and the Buddhist origins and how to verify real by three marks of Dharma. Today we are going to the last chapter of this topic, which is nirvana and tranquility. When it comes to ” Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral, essential universal Dharma contain no ego-self”, we can find many examples. However when it comes to “Nirvana…
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Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of Dharma
Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of DharmaJUL/08/ 2023—JUL / 09/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. What is the significance of the three marks of Dharma for us? First, impermanence is hope. “Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral” is to tell us that although everything in the world is impermanent, it is changing at every second. For example, “good things could become a bad thing” is impermanence, but “misfortune may prove to be a blessing in disguise”, this is also impermanence. Hence, impermanence has its positive, optimistic and energetic side also. I’ve watched a movie before, a poor kid from slum became a…
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The Origination of Three Marks of Dharma
The Origination of Three Marks of Dharma JUL/01/ 2023—JUL / 02/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. As is known to all, the Dharma was divided into the worldly Dharmas and transmundane Dharmas. There is a special theory does not belong to the worldly Dharma, which is pratitya-samutpada, we also call it “origin Dharma”. “The pratitya-samutpad” means the cause of origin, which is about equal to the conditions from the worldly Dharma. The Buddhist Dharma believes that everything is made up of karma; everything has an origin. The conditions are complex and fluctuating, so the phenomena of the existence of the universe are…
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The Three Marks of Dharma
The Three Marks of Dharma JUN/24/ 2023—JUN / 25/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. As is known to all, three marks of Dharma (Sanskrit: Tri-dṛṣṭi-nimitta-mudrā) refers to the three standards of “Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral, essential universal Dharma contain no ego-self, Nirvana is “tranquility. Mahayana Buddhism believes that these three criteria can be used to verify the teachings, to distinguish the real Dharma, it is like a seal or stamp that prove the real from regulars, used as a certificate. Hence it named marks of existence. The “marks” in the three marks of Dharma can correspond to Sanskrit: mudrā, which is the meaning of stamps…
