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Dharma Q & A: The Sun of Primordial Awareness
When we are dealing with matters, sometimes we go around in circles, and only then does a glimpse of primordial awareness emerge.
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Prajna Wisdom’s Insight into All Phenomena; All Phenomena Are Within Prajna Wisdom
We often mention “prajna wisdom,” but what exactly is it? Put simply, prajna wisdom is a type of wisdom that enables one to have foresight and the ability to let go of concerns.
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Ethical Discipline as the Unsurpassable Foundation of Bodhi and the Cultivation of All Virtuous Roots
The path followed by Buddhists is grounded in the teachings given to us by an awakened teacher—the Buddha—and calls upon us to observe, experience, and put these teachings into practice directly.
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Accomplishing the Path of Liberation through the Three Higher Trainings
Dharma is a teaching of awakening, and the path of awakening is a spiritual path that must be realized through the three higher trainings: ethical discipline, meditative concentration, and wisdom.
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Life as a Field of Merit
I have therefore discovered a form of practice particularly suited to our circumstances: “Work itself is practice; life itself is a field of merit.”
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Inheriting the Tathagata’s Enlightened Activity
Buddhadharma is a path—but what kind of path? It is the path that enables us to return to what is most true, to happiness, to freedom from suffering, and ultimately to the unchangingness.