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  • Dharma Talks,  2023

    Straight Heart and Wisdom-life

    Straight Heart and Wisdom-life JUN/10/ 2023—JUN / 11/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Today we are going to talk about straight heart and wisdom-life.We heard the “Dharma-body and wisdom-life” quite often, then what is Dharma-body and wisdom-life exactly? The Dharma body of the Pali is spelt as Dharmakāya, also known as the self-nature body, referring to the surpassing truths that the Buddha has proved, throughout the entire world. The Dharma body id, not material Dharma, nor is it a material object; it has no image, nor a figure or shape, it is invisible. The Dharma body is always alive. It is not…

  • Dharma Talks,  2023

    Samadhi and Wisdom Has Non-duality

    Samadhi and Wisdom Has Non-dualityJUN/3/ 2023—JUN / 4/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Since last week, we have started our new topic of wisdom. What is wisdom? How wisdom could cope with ignorance and how can we find our wisdom from our self-nature. I believe we’ve all thought a lot about it. Today we will discuss a new section: Samadhi and wisdom have non-duality. When we went to the temple, we can see a big plaque with the words “Non-duality Dharma Gate.” What does that mean, what is non-duality? Equality, and no difference. Duality is the divisiveness. Non-duality means no divisiveness, which…

  • Dharma Talks,  2023

    Self-nature Has Its Own Wisdom

    Self-nature Has Its Own WisdomMay /27/ 2023—May / 28/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Wisdom (Sanskrit: Prajñā), also known as Bore, Boruo, etc., in Chinese, which means wisdom or insight, is one of the precepts, samadhi and wisdom three studies. Mahayana Buddhism listed it as one of the Six Perfections). Hence it also named “Prajnāpāramitā”. The “prajna” here is a Sanskrit Prajna transliteration, the original meaning is “wisdom.” The meaning of Prajñā’s word root is perception, knowledge, or understanding. The prefix Pra is a comparative degree, which means higher, bigger, more than or beyond. Therefore, literally, Prajñā is a kind of advanced…

  • Dharma Talks,  2023

    Your Buddha Nature Will Appear When Your Heart Stays in Samadhi

    Your Buddha Nature Will Appear When Your Heart Stays in SamadhiMay /20/ 2023 – May / 21/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. When Buddha attained the enlightenment, he said, all beings have the same nature as a Buddha.Let’s open the Mahaparinirvana Sutra to see what Buddha taught us: “So, I always say that beings all possess the Buddha-Nature. I even say that the icchantika [most spiritually blinded of persons keeps the Buddha-Nature. The icchantika has no right dharma. The Buddha-Nature too is a good Dharma. As there are the days to come, the icchantika also can possess the Buddha-Nature. Why? Because all…

  • Dharma Talks,  2023

    How to Practice Samadhi Dharma

    How to Practice Samadhi DharmaMay /13/ 2023 – May / 14/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. To practice Samadhi, we must first separate the two things, samadhi power and the realms with the samadhi cultivation. What is samadhi power? The “Great Nirvana Sutra” said: “It never leaves samadhi, nor follow samadhi, which named samadhi power.” That is to say; samadhi power is a kind of ability that enables people to stay at Samadhi, follow one’s heart, not follow the different realms with the samadhi cultivation. The realms with the samadhi cultivation are the various realm of consciousness that appears during the process…