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Master Yinhai: Yogācāra (Consciousness-Only) and Pure Land (Part 2)
Yogācāra (Consciousness-Only) and Pure Land (Part 2)
ReadMind-Only Pure Land Does Not Mean You Shouldn't Seek Rebirth in the Pure Land
What does "mind-only Pure Land" mean? A person who has genuinely realized emptiness still feels an ardent longing to be reborn in the Pure Land. He knows full well that the Saha world is empty, yet he holds a deep aversion to it.
ReadWhen You Abandon the Mind of Seeking Gain, the Supreme Treasury of Jewels Is Opened
Right then, after Mahakashyapa had laid out a parable in prose, he turned to verse to make the same point: "Today, we have heard the Buddha's teaching." What does "today" point to? The Lotus Sutra assembly. Before the Lotus Sutra, the Bu...
ReadAppreciating a Chan Poem — The Mind Already Free of Dust, Why Wash It? The Body Without Illness, Why Seek a Doctor?
Chan Master Zhizhen of Guishan [Tang Dynasty]
ReadSingle-Mindedly Reciting the Name of Myriad Virtues, Aspiring for Rebirth in the Pure Land
How do we put this bodhicitta into practice so it can be fully perfected? The following line holds the answer: “Single-mindedly recite Amitabha’s name of myriad virtues, aspiring for rebirth in the Pure Land.” It teaches us that the only...
ReadKnowing the Suffering Nature of This Five-Aggregate Body-Mind Is the Very Virtue of the Dharma Body
“With each passing thought, impermanence holds sway; deluded feelings grow ever coarser—this is what we call sudden collapse.” Once the wheel of rebirth turns with a single deluded thought, and that momentum carries forward unbroken over...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong-An: Selflessness and Emptiness — Lecture 5: The Selflessness and Emptiness of the Madhyamaka Prasangika School
Lecture 5
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: No-Self and Emptiness, Lecture 4: Refuting Real Existence and Intrinsic Existence
Self and Emptiness, Lecture 4
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: No-Self and Emptiness, Lecture Three — Refuting the Substantially Existent Self
Self and Emptiness, Lecture Three
ReadVenerable Master Gangxiao: Zen Seven Lecture – Reciting the Buddha's Name with the Three Minds
Amitabha. Blessings to all the masters.
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: No-Self and Emptiness, Lecture 2: Refuting the Self Identical to the Aggregates
Lin Chong'an (2007)
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: No-Self and Emptiness, Lecture 1: Refuting the Eternal Self, Abandoning the Self Separate from the Aggregates
Self and Emptiness, Lecture 1
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