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Focus and Awareness: Dharma in Daily Life from *Fundamentals of Buddhist Practice*
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ReadFor Practitioners of the Buddhist Dharma, First Establish Unwavering Resolve
With genuine, steadfast resolve, the power of the Way grows strong all on its own. This holds true for everyone, regardless of gender: for those who practice the great Chan Dharma, and for anyone walking the Buddhist path, the first and ...
ReadVenerable Huaping’s Dharma Talk: Flickering Between Good and Evil Never Lasts — Only Repentance and Remorse Endure
Flickering between good and evil never lasts. Only repentance and remorse can endure. Only when you let go of fixating on good and bad can you abide in your true, unchanging nature. Instead, turn your mind only to reverence, faith, the t...
ReadZen Practice Encompasses the Entire Dharma
When a practitioner deeply understands the essence and methods of meditative concentration, the entirety of the Dharma naturally reveals itself.
ReadLayperson Zhuang Chunjiang: Fundamentals of Buddhist Practice — Chapter 5: The Dharma in Daily Life — Section 1: Discipline of the Six Sense Faculties
The most precious gift of the Dharma is its ability to fully resolve the suffering and distress we live with. And that suffering and distress arise right in the midst of our everyday lives. So if our Dharma practice can’t weave itself in...
ReadVenerable Da'an's Collected Dharma Talks: End-of-Life Care
When the eighth consciousness departs at the moment of death, the suffering is unbearable. Most people cling to life and fear death, unwilling to leave this world and wishing to live a few more days, yet they have no choice but to go. Th...
ReadRevealing the Buddha's Esoteric Causal Teachings, Casually Claiming Ignorance of the Dharma
Let us first examine the outward forms in which bodhisattvas manifest, in both auspicious and inauspicious conditions. We turn first to the passage that prohibits the disclosure of secret teachings. After I pass into parinirvana, I shall...
ReadPractitioners in the Dharma-Ending Age Should Wholeheartedly Recite and Uphold the Shurangama Mantra
When we begin to practice and study the Shurangama King Samadhi, it brings two types of benefits to our body, mind, and the world we inhabit:
ReadWhy Guanyin Bodhisattva’s Ear-Contemplation Dharma Gate Is the Most Supreme in the Dharma-Ending Age
Guanyin Is the Supreme
ReadDo Not Preach the Lotus Sutra to These Six Types of People
And again, Shariputra: do not teach this sutra to those who are arrogant and indolent, who cling to a view of a self; to ordinary people with shallow understanding, deeply attached to the five sense desires, who cannot comprehend it even...
ReadDharma Master Da'an's Collected Discourses: Methods for Buddha Recitation
Once we have established deep faith and earnest aspiration, we must turn to practice. How can we master this Buddha name, imbue it with strength, and remain in control even in the face of all kinds of karmic forces? The first step is to ...
ReadQuotations from Venerable Daan's Blog — The Sudden and Perfect Dharma
The Infinite Life Sutra tells us that because they failed to trust the Pure Land Dharma Door, as many as a hundred million practitioners of the common great vehicle path turned back from their pursuit of anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Why did...
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