2023
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Distinguishing Dharma by Wisdom Eyes
Distinguishing Dharma by Wisdom Eyes JUN/17/ 2023—JUN / 18/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. What is wisdom eyes?Wisdom eyes are not the eye from human or animals’ bodies; wisdom eyes mean grand wisdom.My master often says that he Every Dharma talk will help beings open their wisdom eyes, every sentence and every word help people open their wisdom eyes. Since Osifu said “to open the wisdom eyes”, we have the wisdom eyes originally.Dibba-cakkhu is not a eye, dibba-sotais not an ear, thought transferring is not a heart, pubbe-nivāsanussati is not a life, iddhi-vidhā is not a foot, āsavakkhaya is not no leaking,…
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Straight Heart and Wisdom-life
Straight Heart and Wisdom-lifeJUN/10/ 2023—JUN / 11/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Today we are going to talk about straight heart and wisdom-life.We heard the “Dharma-body and wisdom-life” quite often, then what is Dharma-body and wisdom-life exactly? The Dharma body of the Pali is spelt as Dharmakāya, also known as the self-nature body, referring to the surpassing truths that the Buddha has proved, throughout the entire world. The Dharma body id, not material Dharma, nor is it a material object; it has no image, nor a figure or shape, it is invisible. The Dharma body is always alive. It is not produced,…
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Samadhi and Wisdom Has Non-duality
Samadhi and Wisdom Has Non-dualityJUN/3/ 2023—JUN / 4/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Since last week, we have started our new topic of wisdom. What is wisdom? How wisdom could cope with ignorance and how can we find our wisdom from our self-nature. I believe we’ve all thought a lot about it. Today we will discuss a new section: Samadhi and wisdom have non-duality. When we went to the temple, we can see a big plaque with the words “Non-duality Dharma Gate.” What does that mean, what is non-duality? Equality, and no difference. Duality is the divisiveness. Non-duality means no divisiveness, which…
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Self-nature Has Its Own Wisdom
Self-nature Has Its Own WisdomMay /27/ 2023—May / 28/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Wisdom (Sanskrit: Prajñā), also known as Bore, Boruo, etc., in Chinese, which means wisdom or insight, is one of the precepts, samadhi and wisdom three studies. Mahayana Buddhism listed it as one of the Six Perfections). Hence it also named “Prajnāpāramitā”. The “prajna” here is a Sanskrit Prajna transliteration, the original meaning is “wisdom.” The meaning of Prajñā’s word root is perception, knowledge, or understanding. The prefix Pra is a comparative degree, which means higher, bigger, more than or beyond. Therefore, literally, Prajñā is a kind of advanced…
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Your Buddha Nature Will Appear When Your Heart Stays in Samadhi
Your Buddha Nature Will Appear When Your Heart Stays in SamadhiMay /20/ 2023 – May / 21/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. When Buddha attained the enlightenment, he said, all beings have the same nature as a Buddha.Let’s open the Mahaparinirvana Sutra to see what Buddha taught us: “So, I always say that beings all possess the Buddha-Nature. I even say that the icchantika [most spiritually blinded of persons keeps the Buddha-Nature. The icchantika has no right dharma. The Buddha-Nature too is a good Dharma. As there are the days to come, the icchantika also can possess the Buddha-Nature. Why? Because all…
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How to Practice Samadhi Dharma
How to Practice Samadhi DharmaMay /13/ 2023 – May / 14/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. To practice Samadhi, we must first separate the two things, samadhi power and the realms with the samadhi cultivation. What is samadhi power? The “Great Nirvana Sutra” said: “It never leaves samadhi, nor follow samadhi, which named samadhi power.” That is to say; samadhi power is a kind of ability that enables people to stay at Samadhi, follow one’s heart, not follow the different realms with the samadhi cultivation. The realms with the samadhi cultivation are the various realm of consciousness that appears during the process…
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Four Dhyana and Eight Samadhi
Four Dhyana and Eight SamadhiMay /6/ 2023—May / 7/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. The Shurangama Sutra says: Controlling your heart as the precepts, reaching the Samadhi due to the precepts and getting the wisdom because of Samadhi. We call it Three Non-Outflow studies. Since last month, we have begun to discuss and study the three Non-Outflow studies, precepts, Samadhi and wisdom. I believe we have already understood the origin and importance of “precepts”. Three Non-Outflow studies conclude the Eightfold Path: The right speech, right livelihood, proper conduct is precept studying, right effort, right mindfulness, right Samadhi are the samadhi learning, right…
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The Magical Effect of Samadhi Dharma
The Magical Effect of Samadhi DharmaApr /29/ 2023—Apr / 30/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. 2,500 years ago, Siddhartha Gautama, the prince of Magadha empire, tried to explore the truth of the universe and rescue all living beings’ sufferings. At the age of 29, he resolutely gave up his throne and left his wife and son to pursue his spiritual life. He spent six years on the snow-capped mountains for ascetic practice; he worked so hard on samadhi cultivation. After that, he meditated for forty-nine days under the Bodhi tree and finally attained the enlightenment when he watched the morning star. He…
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Taking the Precepts as Our Guiding Principle
Taking the Precepts as Our Guiding PrincipleApr /22/ 2023– Apr / 23/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. What is the guiding principle? We often concentrate on the main points; guiding principle is the main point or key point highlighted by its representative, normative, and lead characters. Some people disagree that taking the precepts as our guiding principle, they said that focusing on Zen, Pure Land or reciting the Buddha’s name is our program and the most important part of cultivation. This is a very common opinion. Many Buddhist ask me: Which Dharma gate should I learn? Should I recite Buddha’s name or…
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Taking the Precepts as Ancestors’ Teaching
Taking the Precepts as Ancestors’ TeachingApr /15/ 2023 – Apr / 16/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. As we all know, there are four parts of the tripitaka sutra Dharmakara, collection of sutras, Viyana Pitaka，Abhidhamma Pitaka and secret Dharma. After Buddha’s Nirvana, Kasyapa held the first Buddhist council in the Saptaparni Cave with five hundred Arhats. Buddha never wrote down his teachings. Ananda recited an oral tradition of Buddha’s teaching from his memory, prefacing it with “Thus have I heard on one occasion”, which is a collection of sutras. Upali was 90 years old, he reciting the Vinaya or precepts. After being…
