Archive for June, 2019

Old and new students heard a preliminary English translation of the second mind essence — “The Xiaman Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” — of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) as transmitted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in San Diego today at the Eye of Buddha Store at 4247 Park Blvd. Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche explained the origins and importance of this great work and how it is available in seven types of dharma practices at different ...

NEWS: new family of baby peachicks have just arrived (7-2-2019). Not so many peachicks this season, but it is always a joy to visit with the flora and fauna that share the home of Uma and Reba in Sonora. The four remaining chicks were busy being the delightful little bundles of fluff and feathers that they can be, but the males had mostly lost their tail feathers and were slinking around in disgrace like the one above heading for the ...

Zhaxi Zhuoma visited the Heartwood Refuge & Retreat Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina from May 18 through May 30. The group above represents the students from the current Kammanna Institute class and the local sangha who came to hear how the Four Immeasurable Minds or Brahma-viharas (that can cause you to be reborn in the heavens or Brahmaloka) can enable you to achieve bodhichitta in the highest sense and ultimate enlightenment and liberation. Most of those in these two ...