Dharma Talks
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Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of Dharma
Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of DharmaJUL/08/ 2023—JUL / 09/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. What is the significance of the three marks of Dharma for us? First, impermanence is hope. “Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral” is to tell us that although everything in the world is impermanent, it is changing at every second. For example, “good things could become a bad thing” is impermanence, but “misfortune may prove to be a blessing in disguise”, this is also impermanence. Hence, impermanence has its positive, optimistic and energetic side also. I’ve watched a movie before, a poor kid from slum became a…
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The Origination of Three Marks of Dharma
The Origination of Three Marks of DharmaJUL/01/ 2023—JUL / 02/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. As is known to all, the Dharma was divided into the worldly Dharmas and transmundane Dharmas. There is a special theory does not belong to the worldly Dharma, which is pratitya-samutpada, we also call it “origin Dharma”. “The pratitya-samutpad” means the cause of origin, which is about equal to the conditions from the worldly Dharma. The Buddhist Dharma believes that everything is made up of karma; everything has an origin. The conditions are complex and fluctuating, so the phenomena of the existence of the universe are also…
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The Three Marks of Dharma
The Three Marks of Dharma JUN/24/ 2023—JUN / 25/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. As is known to all, three marks of Dharma (Sanskrit: Tri-dṛṣṭi-nimitta-mudrā) refers to the three standards of “Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral, essential universal Dharma contain no ego-self, Nirvana is “tranquility. Mahayana Buddhism believes that these three criteria can be used to verify the teachings, to distinguish the real Dharma, it is like a seal or stamp that prove the real from regulars, used as a certificate. Hence it named marks of existence. The “marks” in the three marks of Dharma can correspond to Sanskrit: mudrā, which is the meaning of stamps…
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Distinguishing Dharma by Wisdom Eyes
Distinguishing Dharma by Wisdom EyesJUN/17/ 2023—JUN / 18/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. What is wisdom eyes?Wisdom eyes are not the eye from human or animals’ bodies; wisdom eyes mean grand wisdom.My master often says that he Every Dharma talk will help beings open their wisdom eyes, every sentence and every word help people open their wisdom eyes. Since Osifu said “to open the wisdom eyes”, we have the wisdom eyes originally.Dibba-cakkhu is not a eye, dibba-sotais not an ear, thought transferring is not a heart, pubbe-nivāsanussati is not a life, iddhi-vidhā is not a foot, āsavakkhaya is not no leaking, six…
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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…
