Meditation and Consciousness (Lecture 2/10)

BDG on YouTube: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng

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BDG Feature: The Wonders of Reciting “Namo Amitabha Buddha”

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Meditation and Consciousness (Lecture 1/10)

BDG on YouTube: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng

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Who Am I? (Lecture 4/4)

A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng

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…Notice the suttas DON'T begin with 'Thus have I heard FROM ĀNANDA', just 'Thus have I heard'. Later prose authors could have been referring to the oral tradition in general, and made up the story of Ānanda's reciting the entire Canon, in order to legitimise the very long texts they wrote.

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…The many long suttas, lists, and miracles, in the Pāli Canon, were probably composed, based on the early poetry and oral tradition, by a group of prose authors, sooner or later after Buddha's final passing, who were institutionalising Buddhism to compete with Hinduism, Jainism, Ājīvika, etc.

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…Compared to the prose suttas, those poems present Buddha as a more human, ascetic, solitary sage (muni) who abandons ALL views; who doesn't study under Āḷāra and Uddaka; doesn't do a life-long lecture tour; skips the arūpajhāna level of neither-perception-nor-nonperception; and other interesting differences. Give them a read.

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Who Am I? (Lecture 3/4)

A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng

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Le Sûtra du Cœur

Pour ceux qui lisent le “Sûtra du Coeur” – le Maka Hannya Haramita Shingyo – la première fois ils peuvent être désemparés par une logique qui semble être contre-intuitive. Dans cette introduction je donne quelques points de repères essentiels – entre autre une approche de la vacuité, notion centrale dans l’Hannya Shingyo – pour une bonne compréhension de ce sûtra.

Le Sûtra du Coeur: une introduction

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Who Am I? (Lecture 2/4)

A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng

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