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A true heart is not influenced by external distractions, a heart free of distractions is a purified heart. To cultivate with a pure heart will bring tremendous benefits to yourself. An example is when chanting sutras and mantras. The merit…

Wesak is an important time of the year for Buddhists, like Christmas is to Christian religions. At Christmas, Christians celebrate the birth of their lord and saviour, Jesus Christ.  At Wesak, Buddhists celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death (entry into…

In a very good talk by Master Lian Zhi at the Chin-Yin Temple, she posed a few questions to the disciples of the True Buddha School: All True Buddha Disciples have taken refuge in the True Buddha School. Is it…

Master Lin Zhi presented this topic after a cultivation practice last month.  I thought it applicable to everything that is going on in the world (current events).  I’ll be honest, it has been a difficult couple of years, because as a child of…

I was asked this question by a well-respected colleague at the University.  He was a prominent instructor of marketing and business who had experience in Malaysia, which has many popular religions, including Islam and Buddhism, and had quite a bit…

​I hardly feel qualified enough to discuss this topic, but it’s due to my lack of ability to practice it that I study the concept so much.  However, that itself is contradictory to the topic itself: Wu Wei, or 無為.I see Wu Wei (無為) in some…

As we have learned in previous articles, to walk the noble eight-fold path, we must first purify our body, speech and mind, and repent all our transgressions. This is my regular cultivation practice that Grandmaster recommends that all lay practitioners cultivate at least once…

As an elementary practitioner, I originally started cultivating without the knowledge of why a Buddhist practitioner would cultivate.  However, after a few years, I realized that many of the effects of regular cultivation, such as reduction of anxiety and depression,…

As a child, I was exposed to western shows like “Unsolved Mysteries” and eastern movies like “A Chinese Ghost Story” (“倩女幽魂”, 1987) which terrified me. I had no experience in anything spiritual. I continued exploring the world of fictional demons,…