The buddhahood Podcast

01-23-2022 Gongyo and Talk

Nagarjuna to 3000 Realms and Nichiren to the silent meditations and what to chant about.

Nagarjuna’s Twelve Gates - Part 3 - to self and Ego and 3000 realms

What we call "reality" is a constructed view of self, defended by ego to describe samsaric causation, and severed from the actual process.

Nagarjuna’s Twelve Gates Part 2 and Chi-i’s 3000 Realms

From CE 150'ish Nagarjuna, 500 years later to Chi-i to Miao-lo, Dengyo to the 13th century Japan scholar Nichiren and now to Jacqueline Stone, PhD, the awareness of the mind's role in our Samsaric experience draws a straight line.

Nagarjuna’s Twelve Gates - Part 1

Samsara is a condition of mind (perception) something like a screened door. We tend to focus on the screen or what lies beyond. Enlightenment is like seeing the constructed within both.

The TLK Bookstore and Website

www.LULU.com/spotlight/kwoon is a terrific resource for study and reference that also aids greatly to support and extend the continued efforts of this school and our Sangha.

A Story of Buddha’s Enlightenment

Born Siddartha Gautama, and after 6-7 years of many Brahman practices, Siddhartha left the ascetic practices to find for himself the core truth of life to free sentient beings from the traumas and stress that plague human experience. Through much meditation, visions and dreams he found the fundamental nature of all phenomena.

Mo Ho Chi-Kuan on Great Cessation and Insight

The four stages of a thought moment. Karma, Formation, Identification, and ending.

01-16-2022 Gongyo and Talk -

The Stages of Bodhisattva

MahaPariNirvana Sutra - Part 6

The Middle Path. How to course in the world of physical formations while maintaining the Buddha Mind. The Buddha-Nature is the Middle Path.

MahaPariNirvana Sutra - Part 5

The mind of the practitioner coursing as Bodhisattva; the Buddha-mind in Samsara