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Once Across, Let Go of the Raft; Not Yet Across, You Still Need the Boat
Verse One: Given to His Students
ReadWhy We Often Feel Lonely
Why Do We Often Feel Lonely?
ReadZen Practice Helps Us Learn How to Live (Akapa Rinpoche)
After attaining enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized that beyond the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death that defines human existence lies what we call life itself: seemingly vast, boundless, and infinite. From that m...
ReadA Brief Introduction to Master Mingzhe
Elder Mingzhe, courtesy name Rijing, secular name Zhang Yuxiang, monastic name Yunxiang, was born in March 1925 in Jining, Shandong Province. He began studying at a private school at the age of seven, practicing vegetarianism and learnin...
ReadInvesting in Solitude
Selected from: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche's Not for Happiness
ReadIntroducing Yijing: A Tang Dynasty Scripture Translator
Yijing (635–713) was a Tang dynasty monk, scripture translator, and traveler. His lay surname was Zhang, and he was from Qizhou—present-day Licheng in Shandong—though some accounts place his origins in Fanyang, in the southwest of modern...
ReadThe Happiest Person in the World: Teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche
Imagine you live in a small room with only one window—locked, and so caked with grime that no light can pass through. You might assume the world outside is a bleak, dismal place, populated by all manner of grotesque creatures, because ev...
ReadFocus and Awareness: Dharma in Daily Life from *Fundamentals of Buddhist Practice*
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ReadA Brief Introduction to Master Shenxiu
Master Shenxiu was born in 605 and died in 706, living to the remarkable age of 102 — thirty-five years older than Master Huineng. According to historical records, he studied the classics and histories in his youth before leaving home li...
ReadSeeing Interdependent Conditions Clearly Lets You Cultivate Your Practice While Influencing Others
That earnest, aching wish— the kind that longs to see rough iron forged into fine steel, frustrated when progress stalls— has softened and leveled out over long years of practice. He, too, is shaped by his own karma and the causes and co...
ReadBuddhist Practice Turns on Awakening
The whole point of Buddhist practice is whether you awaken or not. Awaken, and you're a Buddha. Don't, and you're an ordinary person.
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.
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