Appreciation Heart – A Short Post
In Buddhist philosophy, there is a class where they talk about appreciation. A student asks, “How can I appreciate when everything in my life has gone wrong?” The student proceeds to explain a terrible circumstance: lost his business, lost his partner, his kids won’t speak to him, went bankrupt, lives on the street. He says,
Sifu’s Meditation Technique to Connect to Amitabha Buddha
From Sifu: “Now, I want to expand on the meditation technique to reaching Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land. Sometimes when I do this method, it works immediately — so quickly, so deeply — but it’s also not easy to do. The philosophy behind this practice is that our true nature is not this body, nor the
Extension Life, Hell Bodhisattva Story
Extension Life Hell Bodhisattva 佛說延命地藏菩薩經 佛說天地八陽神咒經 心經・大悲咒合輯本 Here’s a breakdown and translation: 佛說延命地藏菩薩經 The Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on Extending Life through Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva (A scripture focusing on prolonging life with the help of the Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha.) 佛說天地八陽神咒經 The Sutra of the Eight Solar Spirits Mantra of Heaven and Earth, Spoken by the Buddha
Amitabha Buddha Meditation
Joyful sound, hmm. Sound — you hear sound. No sound — you hear silence. Ability to be aware — always there. Eternal, never changes. Observing Self Being Bodhisattva, aware everything. The highest consciousness observes the sound.Observe: Buddhahood is not the sound, not the silence, not good, not bad, not brightness or darkness. The ability to
👑The Eight Consciousness Kings
👁️ Introduction: The Vision and the Eye At the very beginning of perception, we want to know… Who am I? What am I? This represents the awakening of the visual sense and the desire to perceive the world. From this initial impulse, the process of self-awareness begins. This class explores the Eight Consciousness Kings—a poetic