Dharma Talks
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Spreading Zen In the Orient
Spreading Zen In the OrientJan /14/ 2023 – Jan / 15/ 2023 There was a young man who was living with his mother; the only way he made his living was selling firewood. One day he delivered some firewood to a shop when he was about to leave; he heard a guest was reciting a sutra. As soon as he heard the text of this sutra, his mind at once became enlightened. Thereupon the young man asked the guest the name of the book and inquired whence he came and why he recited this particular sutra. The guest replied that he came from Dong Shan Monastery in the Huang Mei…
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Zen’s Voyage from India to China
Zen’s Voyage from India to China Jan /7/ 2023 – Jan / 8/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. As we all known, Buddha started his Dharma teaching since 2500 year ago, the Flower Sermon is about his student whose name is Maha Kasyapa got the special transmission outside of the scripture from the Buddha Sakyamuni. After Buddha’s nirvana, his Arhat disciples gathered in a Cave that only Arhat can enter recited Buddha’s teaching and wrote them down, which created the oriental Buddhism transcriptions. Around 500 AD, the Zen transmission has been passed on 28th generation. The descendant of this generation is also…
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Dharma Talk：The Flower Sermon
The Flower Sermon Dec /17/ 2022 – Dec / 18/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. After the enlightenment of Buddha, once in the Gridhakutta Dharma gathering, the Brahma, the lord of the Saha world, whose name is Fangguang, wearing his heavens embroidered cloths with dazzling canopies and tassels, his glorying imperial crown on his head, his family and subjects were to follow after, everyone dressed up formally and gorgeous. The celestial flying nymphs were dancing gracefully; they dropped the white lotus from the sky; the scent was overflowing and spreading nimble music. Lord Fangguang was standing there, put his palms together devoutly…
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Trin Guhyani Being Oneness
Trin Guhyani Being Oneness Dec /10/ 2022-Dec / 11/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center.Today we are going to though the last part of this month’s topic “secret Dharma”. In the first three weeks, we crash-then-law, discussed what exactly the secret Dharma is, what is the secret of Buddha’s teaching, and how can we make wonderful use of it. We believe that everyone is very much looking forward to today’s lecture—we have to talk about how to practice secrecy after so many theory teaching. There we go, let’s start from here. Buddhist often say: “Trin guhyani are the oneness”, but what exactly Trin…
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Secret Dharma is in Wonderful Functions
Secret Dharma is in Wonderful Functions Dec /03/ 2022 – Dec /04/ 2022 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Last week, we talked about why there is no secret from Buddha’s secret teaching, we discussed the most important secret Dharma from Buddha Sakyamuni and how to sense the secret of Zen, of Pure Land Dharma. We also learned about the relationship between the Zen, Pure Land Dharma and Buddha’s speechless teaching. Some people said, since the secret teachings from Buddha actually have no secret at all, then what is the significant meaning of it? In other words, why we need the secret teachings from…
