Free Buddhist Class on “Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.”
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We are opened again--both at our site near Sanger and once a month in Hesperia at our Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center. We will continue our ZOOM sessions with our international Lemonade Sangha., but next week we also want to be open to the local community for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday dharma classes from 7-9:00 pm. There will also be monthly retreats, some for intensive dharma study and some that are mostly for meditation. We are also planning on having Meditation classes from 7-9:00 pm on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings.
Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche will read from the preliminary translation of a rare Buddhist text on how to realize prajna or the wisdom of a Buddha. This will be the first class in this series explaining the title of the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" one of the most often recited mantras in Mahayana Buddhism that contains the essence of the wisdom teachings of the Buddha. After chanting the short Heart Sutra, which is used as the framework for these classes, the rinpoche will read for around 45 minutes and break for questions and comments. These classes will run for as long as it takes to read the text.
This is a very special text. Several years ago, the rinpoche’s master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, told her and a group of western rinpoches This was the only book they needed to read to realize emptiness and prajna. When the book was first published in Chinese, Holy Nectar from the other realms appeared in a bowl in front of several rinpoches including Zhaxi Zhuoma to bless those present and provide holy nectar to be used in the ink for the seal stamped on the first edition of the published text.
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