The buddhahood Podcast

The buddhahood Podcast

Advanced Mahayana Buddhist practice in plain language from the Threefold Lotus Kwoon. Scholarship from Shakyamuni through to Nichiren and today. This is Quantum Life Buddhism!

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May 5, 2025 34 mins

Chapter 6 on the Virtue of the Name is a detailed reminder of the teachings of the Lotus Bodhisattva Mahasattva through the concepts of the “Maha” (Eternal), “Pari” (final or ultimate), Nirvana (cessation of Samsara).

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In closing, the expression of Tathagata-field Potential, the “adamantine body” is the enduring influence of your Buddha-hood in the community of mankind. Unbound by physical survival, influence reverberates through the minds of encounters without end. This is especially manifest as the reward of protection and promulgation of the Wonderful Dharma (Lotus Teaching).

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April 26, 2025 40 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 20. The “adamantine body” is the enduring influence of your Buddha-hood in the community of mankind. Unbound by physical survival, influence reverberates through the minds of encounters without end.

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April 8, 2025 52 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 19. We close chapter four with the reminder that the Engine of Life is the process of all phenomena, that formations are karma, and that this understanding comes with the 9th consciousness.

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April 6, 2025 37 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 18. Who is the “Teacher” and to whom is the “Student? Ultimately it is we, in our own minds, to whom the experience of the world, life, is the teacher and student. This is an a priori mind-shift, a transcendence of “reality” as the illusion of “things” to the awakening of the “reality” of thought as experience.

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March 29, 2025 44 mins

A lesson on parenting to all those students and people whose lives we touch. Always be the exemplar, the teacher, the maintenance of the aspiration to Buddhahood. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available in the TLK Bookstore;   www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon  How to use this study resource :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : http://threefoldlotus.com    www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon  www.cafepress.com/shop/...

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March 27, 2025 46 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 16. “On Long Life” begins with Shakyamuni asking for questions to resolve any and all doubts remaining in the collected students of this congregation prior to his parinirvana.

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March 27, 2025 41 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 15. We close this chapter with a description of “Realms”. A list could be made of these descriptions to add to the discussions of later centuries about the 3000 Realms of Samsaric influence acting on our moment to moment consciousnesses to impede or support our resolve in the practice of enlightenment.

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March 2, 2025 38 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 14. Once again, Shakyamunibuddha is determined to have these monks understand that they have taken their understanding to be complete truth, when in fact, it is only superficial and not yet complete and profound. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm How to use this study resource : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : http://threefoldlotus....

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February 28, 2025 46 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 13. In this portion of the chapter, Shakyamunibuddha impresses on the monks the importance of transcending the language of practice to attain the intent and meaning of the stories and words of teaching for the “experience” of perception. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available   Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm  How to use this study resource :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : ht...

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January 29, 2025 43 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 12. In this chapter “On Grief”, we may well ask if it is the grief of Shakyamuni that he must bare the unwavering clinging to illusions of the Semblance Dharma in the monks assembled. “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available   Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm  How to use this study resource :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : http://threefoldlotus.com    www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoo...

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January 20, 2025 45 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 11. Cunda makes his leave, and no sooner do the crowds commence with the whining. How must Shakyamuni get through to them before departing? “Buddhism Reference” – Now Available   Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm  How to use this study resource :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : http://threefoldlotus.com    www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon  www.cafepress.com/shop/gohonzon/products ...

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January 14, 2025 22 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 10. Shakyamunibuddha finally reaches Cunda. The nature of Tathagata as potential is established and the experience of Buddha built into the framework of the sentient mind.

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January 12, 2025 48 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 9. Manjushri aids in Cunda’s realizations, and yet Cunda continues to struggle in confidence of his own ability to awaken.

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January 8, 2025 44 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 8. Cunda argues with Manjushri on the central point of Shakyamuni’s Lotus teaching.

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January 6, 2025 40 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 7. Cunda discovers his Buddha Consciousness and Shakyamuni exhorts him to teach and support all those he can.

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January 3, 2025 47 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 6. Chapter 2 introduces the upasaka Cunda to us for the first time. And with him we begin the long back and forth of many questioners of Shakyamuni to resolve their capacity to understand.

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January 1, 2025 59 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 5. We close this first chapter prepared for some big revelations to come to the whole of the sentient community.

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December 31, 2024 37 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 4. The procession continues as more and more offerings are offered while Shakyamunibuddha remains silent.

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December 23, 2024 47 mins

MahaPariNirvana Part 3. As the Assembly grows to include varied levels of monks, men and women, with their incalculable offerings, we find Shakyamunibuddha nonplussed and unaccepted of the huge gifts being offered.

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