Giving Wealth The purpose of the diamond-like wisdom of prajna is to allow us not to hold on to notions of phenomena or notions of…
Sutras and Commentaries
With and Without Notions (cont.) There are plenty of Buddhists who come to the temple to bring a few bananas and apples and donate a…
With and Without Notions The Diamond Sutra commonly uses the two character expression bushi (布施) to refer to giving. The character bu means “universal,” while…
All Worldly Affairs Are Transient Once upon a time there was a princess who was the favorite child of the king, and she was by…
The Mind That Does Not Abide In 1949, amidst the turmoil of the Chinese civil war, I joined many others who hastily left Mainland China…