Advanced Mahayana Buddhist practice in plain language from the Threefold Lotus Kwoon. Scholarship from Shakyamuni through to Nichiren and today. This is Quantum Life Buddhism!
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Reading from the Lotus Sutra, and the opening and closing sutras, Translation by Burton Watson. Reading from Spiritual Independence An Introduction to Soka Spirit published by SGU-USA Soka Spirit Committee. This is my part of bringing harmony to the world, part of contributing to peace and happiness!! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rachel-rizal/support
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Buddhism Reference – Trichiliocosm. An early term referring to 3000 realms of the sentient mind inhabited by the Buddha-nature or Tathagata-field. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Treasure Tower. A critical analogy of the teaching of the Lotus Sutra is the concept, the visualization of the Treasure Tower and the ceremony, the thought exercise of the Treasure Tower. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Transmigration. Buddhism is about the mind. Transmigration is the momentum from moment-to-moment through the 3000 Realms of influence, Our constant emergence from the Engine of Life, Karma. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Topknot. The metaphor of the Buddha’s Topknot is to indicate the enlightened mind’s power and wisdom to propagation and inspire aspirations to Buddhahood by propagating the Dharma. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tongue. The metaphor of the Buddha’s Tongue is to indicate the propagation and widespread reverberations of propagating the Dharma. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Timelessness. The training to experience momentum of the Engine of Life as non-local or non-linear happening. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 8. The Great Contemplation and Insight of Tien-Tai Buddhism authored by Zhiyi or Chi-hi, and further extended and developed for our modern practice by Nichiren. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Objectification. We live in the mind of Samsara that objectifies everything, and we want to move our mind to the transparency of Appreciation, of the momentum, of the experience. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 7. The Five Periods and the Eight Teachings. We can gain a depth of understanding of Nichiren's insights and doctrinal basis. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 6. Buddhahood; what is it, how do we experience it. I introduce the word Transparency, to visualize the Engine of Life. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 5. The One Vehicle, the One Buddha Vehicle, the Lotus Sutra as defined in the Immeasurable Meanings Prologue Sutra. These fundamentals of Zhiyi figure prominently in Nichiren. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 4. Three realities and the Middle Way. From Nagarjuna to Zhiyi, the integration of the sentient mind. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Mindset of Chanting. A comprehensive and profound way to consider the awakening of Buddha mind as we chant. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 3. This episode traces texts and history of shifts as well as revivals of TienTai thought to the Modern Era. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 2. The lineage of teachings are discussed in this series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 1. We begin a short series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – The Thus Come One. Our invocation of the Engine of Life. By chanting the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra, we manifest directly the three bodies of Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Vehicles. Three vehicles refers to Shakyamunibuddha’s teachings evolving to the ability and capacity of his audience over his teaching life. There is in reality, only One Great Teaching. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Realms (Spheres) of Existence. A discussion illuminating the perceptions and identifications of the mind from energy into physicality and Samsara delusions of separateness. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Periods of the Dharma. A discussion illuminating the stages of enlightenment teachings leading to the Later Age and the doctrines of Nichiren. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Clarities. Early teachings for Arhats become the Mahayana of Three Illuminations of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Third Eye. The GoHonzon. The objective of our practice to open and experience our Buddha potential. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Teacher. Is the great power of our sentient mind to take our self awareness of the experience of the engine of life to clearly understand the manifestations and energies that instantiate in moment to moment flow of momentum. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…
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Buddhism Reference – Tathagata. Simply put is the Potential inherent in the entire engine of the Cosmos. Tathagata is the inherent potential for the instantiation of Buddha consciousness. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Sravaka. A student or monk and a “Hearer of the Buddha’s meaning”. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Single Minded Buddha. Happiness in this Life is a Gosho written to remind us that our life condition is always under our control via our Buddha consciousness. We chant to awaken and maintain our attitude and intent with regard to our maximal life potential at all times. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/ho…
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Buddhism Reference – Sovereign. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is your personal Sovereign act to Love your personal experience of the Engine of Life. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Singlemindedly Contemplate Buddha. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is to chant the Daimoku. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. Contemplate, Awaken, Open the eye of, Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Seven Jewels. From earliest teachings and throughout, and in the culminating teachings of the Lotus, Shakyamunibuddha offered traits and human skills to be purified into powers that are analogs to the characters of the Daimoku. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…
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What is Consciousness? Quantum Life Field of Potential. Moment-to-moment, this field instantiates 3000 realms of potential experience for our minds to sort and choose to adopt. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm How to use this study resource : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : htt…
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Buddhism Reference – Secret. A concept, teaching, or insight that requires foundational teachings and understandings in order to fully grasp or appreciate.” “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Save or Rescue. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body and ego. A term not useful to Buddhist practice. To “quote” from ShakyamuniBuddha, “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm…
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Buddhism Reference – Sarira. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body after death and cremation. A term not useful to Buddhist practice. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Samadhi. An ancient term used to describe and ascribe various aspects and qualities of meditative practices to focus the mind. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – SadDharmaPundarikaSutra. The Sanskrit title of the Doctrine of the Dharma of the Wonderful Lotus Blossom, in Japanese the, Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Refuge or Taking Refuge. Buddhism is about the mind. So “refuge” in Buddhist teaching is about maintaining a mind-state of Buddha, compassion, and support for the path to enlightenment. This is a refuge in mind and out thoughts of attitude and intent expressed as actions toward Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Three…
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Buddhism Reference – Pure Land. A predominantly East Asian Buddhist sectarian division of schools maintaining the ancient traditions of reincarnations in misinterpretations of Buddhist teachings. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Pratyekabuddha. Self-realized in the realm of Realization but not yet capable of instructing others on the Buddha way. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Prakrit. A set of Indio-Aryan languages based on Sanskrit but varied for particular castes and subcultures of the Indian geography, spoken by ShakyamuniBuddha as the oral transmission of his teachings. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Prajnaparamita. One of the vows we take to perfect our Buddha knowledge in the pursuit of Buddha wisdom. This is the clarity of full understanding of all phenomena as it happens. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Prajna. Our mind development through Buddha awareness of the true aspect of experience and all phenomena. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhist – 6 (six) Penetrations. The purification of the Skandhas and the mind of the first 6 consciousnesses as qualities or “Marks” of the Buddha. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Parinirvana. Nirvana of extinction rather than the counterfeit or semblance nirvana as a temporary motivator for early students. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhist – Cycle of Life. The universal cosmology of potential to quiescence. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Parent. The Parenting, Teacher-ing, Sovereign-ing of Buddhism is the intimacy of all life, of all sentient beings in search of their own path to Buddha. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – 10 Mahayana Paramita. Compassion and its many forms explored as skills for the Bodhisattva Path. “Buddhism Reference" – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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3 Kinds of Practice. Nichiren gives us advice for steadfastness in our practice in the Gosho, “Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra”. http://threefoldlotus.com/study/ThreeKindsPractice.pdf E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Paramita. The Bodhisattva building of self-behavioral skills for reason, honesty, and truth for one’s mind of awareness and as it applies to the understanding of others. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Outflows. Expelling energies using the Samsaric mind of cravings and clinging, thwarting those energies from manifesting Buddha. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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Buddhism Reference – Omniscience. A term used by translators to try to capture the illumination of the mind of Buddhahood. E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm由Sylvain Chamberlain
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