Category: Dharma Talks

Here will be posted Dharma Talks given after services usually given on Sunday’s.

Contemplando la Enfermedad – Parte 5a – Confortando a los enfermos – 29 de agosto del 2018

En este punto, me gustaría desviarme un poco de Chih-I y mirar a Vimalakirti. Anteriormente mencioné que la enfermedad de la que estamos hablando no cubre a los que toman los Budas o los Bodhisattvas con el propósito de dar instrucción, como la enfermedad de Vimalakirti. Sin embargo, en el Sutra Vimalakirti podemos aprender lecciones importantes, como las que se encuentran en el intercambio entre Manjusuri y Vimalakirti sobre cómo alentar a un bodhisattva que…

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Name of Buddha – Part 5 – January 28, 2019

Now we have two ways of reading the Lotus Sutra, and additional way of entering into the Lotus Sutra.  The two ways of reading are comprehension of individual words leading to a literal understating of the Lotus Sutra.  We have a doctrinal reading which describes and understands the teachings and concepts of the Lotus Sutra.  As I have tried to show we now have a mystical transcendental way of reading or more correctly entering into…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13n – January 28, 2019

We are almost finished so hang on.  You’ve done a wonderful job keeping up with all of this though I suspect it might be a bit overwhelming.  I think that is an appropriate experience.  Being overwhelmed is not always a bad thing or something to be avoided.  At this point or perhaps sooner I suspect you may have even experienced a sense of loss, or confusion due to the complexity and quality of information.  That…

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Name of Buddha – Part 4 – January 28, 2019

The assembled words written in the Lotus Sutra are in the thousands and they each have a meaning Independent of the Lotus Sutra.  Additionally when they are assembled in the Lotus Sutra the now exist in relationship to other word and concepts.  So the Lotus Sutra communicates to us in a variety of ways.   Each word or character communicates its meaning and the assembled words communicate their meaning.  The assembled words are greater than…

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