In this comprehensive 120-minute lecture, Master Yang Ning provides a guide to Cultivation & Realization, bridging the gap between theoretical study and the personal experience of perfect enlightenment.
Chapter 1. The differences between Believing in Buddhism, Learning Buddhism and Cultivating Buddhism Chapter 2. The Truth of Cultivating and Realizing Buddhism Chapter 3. How to cultivate and realize Buddhist Dharma？
Now let’s introduce some important principles of Buddhism. When we start to learn Buddhism, there are some fundamental concepts we need to know. How does Buddhism explain the formation of the universe? It uses the concept of “the interdependent origination is empty in nature” to explain everything created in the universe. At Buddha’s time, he … Read more
The 3rd. accumulation of merits The third method is called the accumulation of merits. How does the accumulation of merits help us? During cultivation, only when our power of concentration enters the state of “forgetting self” can our energy be transformed into light and can we attain Samadhi. Thus, we can cross these three areas. … Read more
How to break and go beyond emotional and sexual desire There is a sequence on the path of breaking and going beyond emotional and sexual desire. How can we break and go beyond the exterior temptation of our body and mind? First, we start to cultivate “being aware but unaffected and immovable”. This means that … Read more
2. watching over your breathing Another method is “watching over your breathing”. “Watching over your breathing” and counting your breath are two different methods. “Watching over your breathing” is called the Ānāpānasati Sutta. This means that you are very clearly aware of your breathing state. This is called “watching over breathing”. For example, now you … Read more
Before the break, I was explaining how to enter the area of true vacuum space from the area of matter. How can we cultivate to detach from all the traps and attachments of the area of matter, the area of light and sound, and the area of undulation? Because our current position is in the … Read more
Chapter 3. How to cultivate and realize Buddhist Dharma Up to now, I have explained mainly the true form of cultivating Buddhism. Indeed, what is cultivating and realizing Buddhist Dharma? It’s a movement from not being attached to anything, to attaining the area of true vacuum space. We also mentioned “go beyond and breaking”. The … Read more
Chapter 2. The Truth of Cultivating and Realizing Buddhism Today, we will mainly talk about cultivating Buddhism. The highest principle of Buddhism is that we need to become a Buddha ourselves. It’s very difficult to teach cultivating and realizing Buddhism, because some theories are the explanations of the states we will attain during our cultivation, … Read more
Chapter 1. The differences between believing in Buddhism, learning Buddhism and cultivating Buddhism Now let’s start our afternoon conference. Since many among us just began to enter the door of Buddhism, to learn Buddhist Dharma, and others have been cultivating for a few decades. Thus, there is a big discrepancy between your experiences of … Read more