Dharma Talks
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Four Dhyana and Eight Samadhi
Four Dhyana and Eight SamadhiMay /6/ 2023—May / 7/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. The Shurangama Sutra says: Controlling your heart as the precepts, reaching the Samadhi due to the precepts and getting the wisdom because of Samadhi. We call it Three Non-Outflow studies. Since last month, we have begun to discuss and study the three Non-Outflow studies, precepts, Samadhi and wisdom. I believe we have already understood the origin and importance of “precepts”. Three Non-Outflow studies conclude the Eightfold Path: The right speech, right livelihood, proper conduct is precept studying, right effort, right mindfulness, right Samadhi are the samadhi learning, right…
