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Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
Buddhadharma is the one journal for serious practitioners of all Buddhist schools. It’s where you can deepen your practice, expand your knowledge of Buddhism, learn from other traditions, and connect with fellow practitioners to address all the important issues facing Buddhism today.
Dzogchen Explained
Roger Jackson reviews Heart of the Great Perfection: Dudjom Lingpa’s Visions of the Great Perfection, Vol. 1 by B. Alan Wallace. From the Spring 2017 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly.
Jackson, Roger R. "Dzogchen Explained". Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. April 13, 2017.
Jackson, Roger R. "Dzogchen Explained". Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. April 13, 2017.;Dzogchen Explained;Dzogchen Explained;Dzogchen;Bdud 'joms gling pa;Roger R. Jackson; 
Four Steps to Magical Powers
Before you fully embark on the path of the bodhisattvas and buddhas, says Chan master Sheng Yen, you must first practice the four steps to magical powers. What are these steps and what are the magical powers you need?
Sheng-Yen. "Four Steps to Magical Powers." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. (July 13, 2018).,Sheng-Yen. "Four Steps to Magical Powers." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. (July 13, 2018).
Sheng-Yen. "Four Steps to Magical Powers." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. (July 13, 2018).,Sheng-Yen. "Four Steps to Magical Powers." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. (July 13, 2018).;Four Steps to Magical Powers;Four Steps to Magical Powers;Meditation;Zen / Chan; Sheng Yen;Zhang Baokang;Chang Baokang
Mind Is Buddha
A simple three-word koan. Or just a one-word koan: buddhanature. So deceptively simple, so easy to leave in the realm of concept, yet it penetrates to the very heart of the matter. Here’s Geoffery Shugen Arnold, Sensei, on Case 30 of the Gateless Gate, “Mazu’s ‘Mind is buddha.'”
Arnold, Geoffrey Shugen. "Mind Is Buddha." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, March 1, 2005.
Arnold, Geoffrey Shugen. "Mind Is Buddha." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, March 1, 2005.;Mind Is Buddha;Mind Is Buddha;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Contemporary American Buddhist;Zen - Chan;Geoffrey Shugen Arnold; 
Pointing Out Ordinary Mind
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche presents the essential teachings of Mahamudra and its three main approaches to practice, each offering effective methods for directly pointing out mind’s true nature.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, (The 7th). "Pointing Out Ordinary Mind." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, August 15, 2018.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, (The 7th). "Pointing Out Ordinary Mind." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, August 15, 2018.;Pointing Out Ordinary Mind;Pointing Out Ordinary Mind;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;Vajrayana;nature of mind;Ordinary Mind;Tathāgatagarbhasūtra;Mahamudra;Kagyu;Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche; 
See the True Nature, Then Let Go and Relax in That
An interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche that turned into a Mahamudra teaching on the spot.
McLeod, Melvin. "See the True Nature, Then Let Go and Relax in That." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, March 1, 2004.
McLeod, Melvin. "See the True Nature, Then Let Go and Relax in That." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, March 1, 2004.;See the True Nature, Then Let Go and Relax in That;See the True Nature, Then Let Go and Relax in That;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;Buddha-nature as Emptiness;Mahamudra;mi la ras pa;Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra;Third Turning;Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim;Melvin McLeod;  
Spotless from the Start
In order to overcome the five main obstacles facing a bodhisattva, says Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, we must realize that all beings are primordially pure. He presents the essential teachings on buddhanature from Maitreya’s Uttaratantra Shastra.
Khyentse, Dzongsar. "Spotless from the Start." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, December 1, 2008.
Khyentse, Dzongsar. "Spotless from the Start." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, December 1, 2008.;Spotless from the Start;Spotless from the Start;Defining buddha-nature;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;prajñā;Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra;Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche;རྫོང་གསར་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་;rdzong gsar mkhyen brtse; 
The Clarity Aspect
When the Buddha taught that all beings have buddhanature, says Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, he wasn’t contradicting the teachings on emptiness—he was clarifying them.
Khyentse, Dzongsar. "The Clarity Aspect." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, June 17, 2017.
Khyentse, Dzongsar. "The Clarity Aspect." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, June 17, 2017.;The Clarity Aspect;The Clarity Aspect;Defining buddha-nature;Metaphors for buddha-nature;Disclosure model;Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra;pratītyasamutpāda;Contemporary;Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche;རྫོང་གསར་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་;rdzong gsar mkhyen brtse; 
The Lamp of Zazen
The point of zazen, says Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, is to live each moment in complete combustion, like a clean-burning kerosene lamp. In this talk at the Tassajara sesshin in the summer of 1969, the great Zen master explains Dogen’s teaching on practicing within imperfection and warns against the arrogance of the false self.
Suzuki, Shunryu. "The Lamp of Zazen." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, June, 1, 2006.
Suzuki, Shunryu. "The Lamp of Zazen." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, June, 1, 2006.;The Lamp of Zazen;The Lamp of Zazen;Contemporary;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Meditation;Zen - Chan;Shunryu Suzuki; 
The Path of Gratitude
The goal of Shin Buddhism’s central practice, nembutsu, is not to attain buddhahood for ourselves, says Jeff Wilson, but to express gratitude for all we have received.
Wilson, Jeff. "The Path of Gratitude." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, November 1, 2019.
Wilson, Jeff. "The Path of Gratitude." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, November 1, 2019.;The Path of Gratitude;The Path of Gratitude;Pure Land;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Hōnen;Shinran;Jeff Wilson; 
Trust Practice, Practice Trust
When we truly give ourselves over to practice, explains Roko Sherry Chayat, we let go of our dependence on outcomes and begin to trust just being what we are, buddhanature, revealed right here, right now, in this very body and place.
Chayat, Sherry. "Trust Practice, Practice Trust." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, February 2, 2018.
Chayat, Sherry. "Trust Practice, Practice Trust." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, February 2, 2018.;Trust Practice, Practice Trust;Trust Practice, Practice Trust;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;Zen - Chan;Sherry Chayat; 
Vajrayana Explained
Many people find the Vajrayana teachings strange and confusing, but they offer a direct path to enlightenment. In this teaching, the late Karma Kagyu master Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche — who died on October 6, 2019 — presents a clear explanation of Vajrayana and its main practices of generation and completion, based on a song by the great seventeenth-century yogi, Karma Chakme Rinpoche.
Karthar, Khenpo. "Vajrayana Explained." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, October 21, 2019.
Karthar, Khenpo. "Vajrayana Explained." Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, October 21, 2019.;Vajrayana Explained;Vajrayana Explained;Metaphors for buddha-nature;Vajrayana;Khenpo Karthar; 
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