From CE 150’ish Nagarjuna, 500 years later to Chi-i to Miao-lo, Dengyo to the 13th century Japan scholar Nichiren and now to Jacqueline Stone, PhD, the awareness of the mind’s role in our Samsaric experience draws a straight line.

Samsara is a condition of mind (perception) something like a screened door. We tend to focus on the screen or what lies beyond. Enlightenment is like seeing the constructed within both.

www.LULU.com/spotlight/kwoon is a terrific resource for study and reference that also aids greatly to support and extend the continued efforts of this school and our Sangha.

Born Siddartha Gautama, and after 6-7 years of many Brahman practices, Siddhartha left the ascetic practices to find for himself the core truth of life to free sentient beings from the traumas and stress that plague human experience. Through much meditation, visions and dreams he found the fundamental nature of all phenomena.

The four stages of a thought moment. Karma, Formation, Identification, and ending.

The Stages of Bodhisattva

The Middle Path. How to course in the world of physical formations while maintaining the Buddha Mind. The Buddha-Nature is the Middle Path.

The mind of the practitioner coursing as Bodhisattva; the Buddha-mind in Samsara

Buddha-ness is Life energy. No one can give or take away your Buddhahood. Only you can invoke your all-seeing, all-being nature of all phenomena.

The Tenth chapter is a profound restatement of the Four Noble Truths.