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The Secret Teachings from Buddha Actually Has No Secret At All
The Secret Teachings from Buddha Actually Has No Secret At AllMar /18/ 2023 – Mar/ 19/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. We analyzed why the Esoteric Buddhism practice is so prevalent in China and understood that the so-called Esoteric Buddhism practice is not the secret teaching from Buddha. Some people might ask, then what it is? What is the secret teaching from Buddha Shakyamuni? In which Sutra? Who took the secret from Buddha and who is keeping those secrets? Quite good questions, let us just start from here and talk about what is the secret Dharma and what is the secret teaching…
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Secret Dharma is in Wonderful Functions
Secret Dharma is in Wonderful FunctionsMar /11/ 2023 – Mar/ 12/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. 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 Buddha, and how can we use it for practice? This is the topic we will discuss today. As we said before, the way we practice Dharma is to go to the resource of the river to learn the teachings from Sakyamuni Buddha, to learn the noble behaviour of Buddha. Today, we will study Buddha’s…
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Esoteric Buddhism is not Buddha’s Secret Dharma
Esoteric Buddhism is not Buddha’s Secret DharmaMar /4/ 2023 – Mar/ 5/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Talking about Esoteric Buddhism, Some people assume that we will talk about god and ghost, all kinds of secret or wired cultivation method now, well, this is sort of the regular opinion for most people, even the Buddhism practitioners, they think esoteric Buddhism is the Buddha’s speechless teaching, is theurgy, is following root guru without keeping any precepts and more efficient than those down-to-earth efforts. We do not judge it first; let’s see what esoteric Buddhism school is. Tantra, also known as Vajrayana, is…
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Reborn to the Pure land
Reborn to the Pure landFeb /25/ 2023–Feb/ 26/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. How to reborn to the Amitabha Pure Land? It is a question that every being should consider. When I was talking about our topic of pure land, some people thought about the pure land school immediately, today I would like to talk a little bit about the history of the pure land school. Just like Zen, the pure land school also came from India; however, it did not become a sectarian religion in ancient India. In China’s Buddhist scriptures translation, there are nearly 100 sutras mentioned as pure land…
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Guiding All Beings Reborn to the Amitabha Pure Land
Guiding All Beings Reborn to the Amitabha Pure LandFeb /18/ 2023–Feb/ 19/ 2023 Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Great Thunder Meditation Center. Why Shakyamuni Buddha recommended and guided people to reborn in the Sukhavati AKA Amitabha Pure Land. How exactly is the Amitabha Pure Land? We’ve read a short description of Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra; you must be impressed by the world which ground is made of gold however you may still be confused by the meaning or function of the things like ponds made of seven kinds of jewels and filled with water with eight types of merits, what are those for except fitting our human…
