2023
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The Middle Way and Noble Eightfold Path
The Middle Way and Noble Eightfold Path AUG/26/ 2023—AUG / 27/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. If we divide Dharma cultivation into three parts,it would be precepts, samadhi and wisdom. The purpose of the precepts is to cultivate the concentration of thoughts and mindfulness, helping people attain the samadhi by keeping the precepts. The samadhi’s function is to cultivate the consistency and stability of thought, to accomplish the amend of thoughts, to rise the wisdom beyond the world’s insights, which is finding the own wisdom in samadhi. Therefore, it can be seen from this that the purpose of practising Dharma is not…
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From Four Noble Truths to the Four Grand Oaths
From Four Noble Truths to the Four Grand Oaths AUG/12/ 2023—AUG / 13/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. You will probably feel curious; why we have to talk about the logical relationship of the Four Noble Truth, Dukkha is eight sufferings, samudaya are causes, nirodha is Nirvana, marga is thirty-seven bodhipakṣa dharma, they are four independent parts, why Buddha concluded them in Four Noble Truth? Indeed, in the modern society we are so easy to ignore the Dukkha, ignore the fact that the life journey in this world is suffering; it is so difficult to read the phenomenon of life, to understand…
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The Three Turnings of Four Noble Truths
The Three Turnings of Four Noble TruthsAUG/05/ 2023—AUG / 06/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. When we talk about the Four Noble Truth, we have to mention the three turning and twelve behaviors, which are:Experiencing the suffering, should know that is suffering and understood the suffering;Experiencing the samudaya coming together should cut off the samudaya, to break the samudaya;This is nirodha, should attain the enlightenment and nirodha, attain the nirodha. This is the marga, should cultivate the by following the marga(path), cultivating.We knew that Buddha first turned the Dharma wheel at saraṅga-nāthá, he taught five Bhiksu the Four Noble Truth, but what…
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The Four Noble Truths’ Cause and Effect
The Four Noble Truths Cause and Effect JUL/29/ 2023—JUL / 30/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. The Four Noble Truths include two parts of causes and effects: one is the cause and effect in the world, that is, dukkha and samudaya. Dukkha is the fruit of this world, and samudaya is the cause of the world. The second is the causes and effects that help people to renunciate the worldly engagements, which is, nirodha and marga. Nirodha is the fruit of renouncing the world and marga is the cause of renunciation of the world engagements. Suppose we understand the teachings of the…
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The Four Noble Truths Dharma
The Four Noble Truths Dharma JUL/22/ 2023—JUL / 23/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Two thousand and five hundred years ago, the prince of Kapilavastu, whose name was Siddhāttha Gotama attained the enlightenment after seven days of sitting meditation under the Bodhi tree. He became the well-known Buddha Sakyamuni. After his enlightenment, he kept silent for seven weeks. Finally, he walked to saraṅga-nāthá from Bodhgaya and taught the Four Noble Truths Dharma for the five bhiksu. What exactly is “the Four Noble Truth”? Why did the Buddha taught it at the first turning of the Dharma wheel? Dukkha, samudaya (“arising,” “coming together”),…
