Podcasts about avatamsaka sutra

Norman gives the first talk of the Gandavyuha Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra Chapter 39) to the Everyday Zen Dharma Seminar. The Gandavyuha Sutra is the story of the spiritual pilgrimage of the monk Sudhana, who visits and learns from many spiritual masters. This is the final chapter 39 of the much larger Avatamsaka Sutra. Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without it. Thank you! https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Gandavyuha-Sutra-Avatamsaka-Sutra-Chapter-39-Talk-3.mp3

Norman gives the first talk of the Gandavyuha Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra Chapter 39) to the Everyday Zen Dharma Seminar. The Gandavyuha Sutra is the story of the spiritual pilgrimage of the monk Sudhana, who visits and learns from many spiritual masters. This is the final chapter 39 of the much larger Avatamsaka Sutra. Suggested donation: $7 https://bit.ly/donate-edz-online-teachings We cannot continue offering teachings online without it. Thank you! https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Gandavyuha-Sutra-Avatamsaka-Sutra-Chapter-39-Talk-1.mp3

Norman gives the second talk of the Gandavyuha Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra Chapter 39) to the Everyday Zen August 2025 All Day Sitting at Green Gulch Farm. The Gandavyuha Sutra is the story of the spiritual pilgrimage of the monk Sudhana, who visits and learns from many spiritual masters. This is the final chapter 39 of the much larger Avatamsaka Sutra. https://s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/edz.assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Gandavyuha-Sutra-Avatamsaka-Sutra-Chapter-39-Talk-2-All-Day-Sitting-August-2025.mp3

Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to do the meditation with the requesting prayer. The way to meditate is to realize Guru Vajradhara, the Dharmakaya Buddha, as the root virtuous friend that embodies and pervades all the manifested billions of mandalas or deities.Rinpoche highlights that the purpose of our life is to free all sentient beings from suffering and cause them happiness. He says that working for others accomplishes two purposes: others' happiness and our own happiness. Thus, working for others' happiness has limitless skies of benefit. To illustrate this, Rinpoche gives an example from the Avatamsaka Sutra, which describes how one person with bodhicitta offering a tiny flower to the Buddha collects far greater merit than if all sentient beings living in the great three thousand universes built stupas made of jewels that covered the entire universe. From this example, you can understand how bodhicitta is the treasure of merit.Rinpoche says that all the infinite qualities of Buddha's holy body, speech, and mind came from bodhicitta. The Buddha came from a bodhisattva, and bodhisattvas come from bodhicitta. Thus, all one's past, present, and future happiness come from bodhicitta.Rinpoche also explains how the development of bodhicitta depends on suffering sentient beings. He says that bodhicitta came from great compassion and great compassion is generated by depending on the existence of suffering beings. Therefore, these sentient beings are unbelievably precious.From April 10 to May 10, 2004, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave extensive teachings during the Mahamudra Retreat at Buddha House in Australia. While the retreat focused on Mahamudra, Rinpoche also taught on a wide range of Lamrim topics. This retreat marked the beginning of a series of month-long retreats in Australia. Subsequent retreats were held in 2011, 2014, and 2018, hosted by the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo.Find out more about Lama Zopa Rinpoche, his teachings and projects at https://fpmt.org/

On the fifth full day of Rohatsu, Sensei Kaz and Wendy Lau explore the roots of Buddhist teachings. Kaz reflects on an excerpt from the Avatamsaka Sutra, and discusses themes of spiritual beliefs and practices in the […]