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10 Jun 2019

Saga Dawa Düchen (Vesak) 2019

Dear Sunray Community, Happy Saga Dawa and Vesak Day! Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo is inviting the community to gather at the Adawee Temple for a group meditation and contemplation of the Heart Sutra for Saga Dawa Düchen (Vesak): Monday, June 17th, 2019 7:00 pm Sunray Peace Village Lincoln, Vermont Saga Dawa Düchen commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana … Read More

13 Sep 2016

Heart Sutra Teaching

The Heart Sutra is chanted around the world by many Buddhist practitioners, and is the heart essence of Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings. Prajna means supreme wisdom, our true nature. Paramita means beyond or the other shore beyond extremes. Hyrdaya means heart of distilled teachings meaning essence of view, supreme wisdom recognizing the great emptiness. As such it reveals the dream like … Read More

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Quotations

Each of us is a battery, a resonator, a musical instrument, and we are setting waves of many patterns and many possible futures in the sea of life. Let us be discriminating in the futures that we shape forth. (p. 157)

Voices of Our Ancestors

Ceremony is the opportunity to say thank you. It is the gift of our life force and our thought to explore the potential. Ceremony honors the cycles of the moon, the sun, and even more subtle cycles that connect our solar system with other galaxies and the very heart of this and all universes.

Learning Cherokee Ways

Often as people come closer and closer to understanding their true nature, they find themselves distracted and annoyed by things, or deep fears come up that they had not known were there. When these fears and other uncertainties of the mind arise, it is a great opportunity to see them as they are, just thought patterns, and have no attachment to them. (p. 258)

Voices of Our Ancestors

As human beings we have a significant responsibility in this time. It is to relate to those patterns in ourselves that lead to fear, doubt, and aggression in such a way that they are transmuted. You never deny what is, but simply acknowledge, “Oh, that feeling is there.” Is it really you? No, it is feeling arising from emotion. Generate the antidote.

Voices of our Ancestors

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