Pure Mind, Pure Land

Pure Mind, Pure Land

- Presented by Ven. Jian Hu, the abbot of Chung Tai Chan Center of Sunnyvale, at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Melbourne.

A great presentation that integrates the environmental issues

with the Buddhist practice.

http://ctzen.org/sunnyvale/enUS/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Quotes in the class

This is here because that is here. This exists because that exists. When that is gone, this is gone. When that perishes, this perishes.

-- Buddha's words on inter-dependence ~ Agama Sutra

Mind precedes all mental state, mind is the chief; they’re all mind-wrought. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow

~ Dharmapada

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments is the scroll,

I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

~ Invictus,William Ernest Henley