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What Does the Bardo Body Look Like?

The bardo body looks much like the deceased did while alive—similar in appearance, and it also possesses the six sense faculties, just like this five-year-old child here. There's a saying that when it walks, it moves like a fashion model...

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There Is Great Medicine Within the Human Body

When our body and mind are beset by all manner of distress and illness, we should know that Amitabha Buddha long ago refined for us a single perfect remedy—the Agada medicine. We need only recite with sincerity; without spending a single...

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Master Hanshan: Do Not Pursue All Manner of Enjoyments for This Physical Body

For monastics, the first essential point to understand is that the fundamental purpose of leaving home, cutting off worldly attachments, and parting from one's family is to transcend birth and death. If you are resolved to attend to the ...

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Bumping the Dantian: A Health Practice to Stimulate the Body's Primordial Qi!

Today I’d like to share a Daoist health cultivation practice called “Bumping the Dantian” — a few gentle bumps to this energy center deliver the same benefits as practicing internal qigong.

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Ge Ming: Buddhism's Transcendence of Samsara — From Misunderstanding to Truth: Qian Zhongshu's Perspective

In many people's minds, Buddhism seems almost synonymous with the cycle of rebirth. The notion of wandering through the six realms after death, of karmic cause and effect, of being reborn into a next life, has come to be regarded as Budd...

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