Dharma Talk
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The Western Pure Land of Amitabha
The Western Pure Land of Amitabha Feb /11/ 2023 – Feb/ 12/ 2023 Amitabha Pure Land, we also call it Western Paradise. We saw many Buddhism practitioners who start their greetings with saying: “Namo Amitabha”; we also saw some people who cultivate Buddha Dharma by reciting the name of Amitabha, they think it is a simple but efficient way of cultivation. When we talk about where should we reborn after this life after decades of cultivation, most people would say “reborn in the ultimate bliss pure land”. This “ultimate bliss pure land” here means Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. Amitabha Pure Land is so popular and influential in our…
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Buddha Pure Land
Buddha Pure Land Feb /04/ 2023 – Feb/ 05/ 2023 At the beginning of this chapter, let’s figure out the relationship between the “Zen”, “pure land” and “esoteric dharma”. There are some connections between the “Zen”, “pure land” and “esoteric dharma”. Last month, we understood the importance of “seeing “self-nature from Zen study, which is not only the ultimate goal of our cultivation but also the essence of our dharma practice. The “pure land” is the directions or places that we are heading to after this life. As we know, most people practice Buddha’s Dharma for specific goals, like to reborn in the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss. I…
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Zen Cultivation
Zen CultivationJan /28/ 2023 – Jan / 29/ 2023 After the previous 3 introduction of Zen history, I believe we had a better understanding of of Zen now, which is not rely on words or letters but a special transmission outside of the scriptures. It is amazing, but how to cultivate in Zen? We actually got some ideal from couple weeks ago; we call it investigating a Zen topic. Take an example for it, when Bodhidharma had a meeting with emperor Wu, the emperor asked the Bodhidharma, “Who am I talking to?” Bodhidharma knew that the emperor Wu was still struggling about the phenomenon, so he answered him as “I…
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Chinese New Year Celebration Talk
Chinese New Year Celebration Talk Jan /20/ 2023 – Jan / 21/ 2023 Hello everyone, I am so glad that we can spend Chinese New Year here in the Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Today is one of the most important days of Chinese and also for the Buddhists. From today, the spring will come back to the earth, and everything refreshes, just as our old Chinese saying goes, “spring is to one year what morning is to one day.” I sincerely hope that everyone has a bright new year and please believe that today is going to be a fantastic beginning. Before I came here, I got a text from…
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Spreading Zen In the Orient
Spreading Zen In the OrientJan /14/ 2023 – Jan / 15/ 2023 There was a young man who was living with his mother; the only way he made his living was selling firewood. One day he delivered some firewood to a shop when he was about to leave; he heard a guest was reciting a sutra. As soon as he heard the text of this sutra, his mind at once became enlightened. Thereupon the young man asked the guest the name of the book and inquired whence he came and why he recited this particular sutra. The guest replied that he came from Dong Shan Monastery in the Huang Mei…
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Zen’s Voyage from India to China
Zen’s Voyage from India to China Jan /7/ 2023 – Jan / 8/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. As we all known, Buddha started his Dharma teaching since 2500 year ago, the Flower Sermon is about his student whose name is Maha Kasyapa got the special transmission outside of the scripture from the Buddha Sakyamuni. After Buddha’s nirvana, his Arhat disciples gathered in a Cave that only Arhat can enter recited Buddha’s teaching and wrote them down, which created the oriental Buddhism transcriptions. Around 500 AD, the Zen transmission has been passed on 28th generation. The descendant of this generation is also…
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Dharma Talk：The Flower Sermon
The Flower Sermon Dec /17/ 2022 – Dec / 18/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. After the enlightenment of Buddha, once in the Gridhakutta Dharma gathering, the Brahma, the lord of the Saha world, whose name is Fangguang, wearing his heavens embroidered cloths with dazzling canopies and tassels, his glorying imperial crown on his head, his family and subjects were to follow after, everyone dressed up formally and gorgeous. The celestial flying nymphs were dancing gracefully; they dropped the white lotus from the sky; the scent was overflowing and spreading nimble music. Lord Fangguang was standing there, put his palms together devoutly…
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Trin Guhyani Being Oneness
Trin Guhyani Being Oneness Dec /10/ 2022-Dec / 11/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center.Today we are going to though the last part of this month’s topic “secret Dharma”. In the first three weeks, we crash-then-law, discussed what exactly the secret Dharma is, what is the secret of Buddha’s teaching, and how can we make wonderful use of it. We believe that everyone is very much looking forward to today’s lecture—we have to talk about how to practice secrecy after so many theory teaching. There we go, let’s start from here. Buddhist often say: “Trin guhyani are the oneness”, but what exactly Trin…
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Secret Dharma is in Wonderful Functions
Secret Dharma is in Wonderful Functions Dec /03/ 2022 – Dec /04/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center. Last week, we talked about why there is no secret from Buddha’s secret teaching, we discussed the most important secret Dharma from Buddha Sakyamuni and how to sense the secret of Zen, of Pure Land Dharma. We also learned about the relationship between the Zen, Pure Land Dharma and Buddha’s speechless teaching. Some people said, since the secret teachings from Buddha actually have no secret at all, then what is the significant meaning of it? In other words, why we need the secret teachings from…
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The Secret Teachings from Buddha Actually Has No Secret At All
The Secret Teachings from Buddha Actually Has No Secret At All Nov /26/ 2022 – Nov / 27/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center.We started a new topic from last week, which is the secret Dharma from Buddha Sakyamuni, we discussed the history of Esoteric Buddhism, and it’s currently developing. We also analyzed why the Esoteric Buddhism practice is so prevalent in China and understood that the so-called Esoteric Buddhism practice is not the secret teaching from Buddha. Some people might ask, then what it is? What is the secret teaching from Buddha Sakyamuni? In which Sutra? Who took the secret from Buddha…
