02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 123
(Last week we ended with, “In the event that you have deep-rooted wholesomeness and do not want to carry-on this way anymore in the next life, you will want to...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 122
(Last week we ended with, “Do you know why one is unable to achieve even 1%? It is because of their feeling of superiority, it is arrogance arising from the complex...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 121
(Last week we ended with, “This was the case with the previous civilization, which was destroyed by nuclear war. I heard that was called the Atlantis civilization. I heard it sank...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 120
(Last week we ended with, “After thousands of years, where would they go? If one has not finished one’s retribution, then one will continue to the hell world. Consequently, it does...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 119
(Last week we ended with, “If you let go of the person and “I”, then the heart (or mind) is not there. That knife, where is it?”) This is speaking about phenomenal...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 118
(Last week we ended with, “We live to 40 and 50 years old, or 50 and 60 years old, we may feel this a little bit; but how can one understand...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 117
(Last week we ended with, “Furthermore, this concept of enlightenment became increasingly clear, and one could apply to one’s living more and more”.) Throughout his life, in the early phase everybody present...
02 Sep Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 116
(Last week we ended with, “When disassembling it by taking away the wheels, axel, doors, instruments, and engine, how can it be called as a “car”? People are the same,...
06 Aug Awakening Dragon 龍覺
Master Shen-Long, Awakening Dragon, 2006. Ink and mixed media on canvas. Viewable from both sides. Collection of the artist. Photo (Left): Chad Redmon Dragon means inconceivable being, one who has great...
01 Jul Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 111
(Last week we ended with, “Therefore, proper human relationships and basic education of the ancients were relatively deep-rooted. The childhood of our generation only had a little of these types...
01 Jul Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 109
(Last week we ended with, “When one has no doubt of the Buddha’s teaching, that is a person with a solid good natural capacity. In fact, no suspicion is precisely...
01 Jul Explanation of the Title: Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, Part 108
(Last week we ended with, “Therefore, my feeling is that if you chant Amitabha sincerely, you will get full marks for the “Five Precepts”, then “false speech” will not happen...