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Date: Saturday, July 06, 2019
Album: Saturday Chan Class
Location: WMT
Ref ID: 2Myd2-YuzIQ
 Highlights​​​
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Date: Sunday, July 07, 2019
Album: Sunday Dharma Talk
Location: WMT
Ref ID: JcF8F6l4GuU
 Highlights​​​
  • Ven. XC speaks about his fasting experience.
    • Heart condition
    • * Diabetes threshold
 
  • Arhats: Suppress thoughts
  • Bodhisattvas: No thoughts can arise.
 
  • Question (Qun from San Jose): Difference between suppressing thoughts and dropping thoughts.
  • Question (Dinh Thai from Iowa): What is Master's thought on a whole food plant based diet meaning no meat, no oil, no diary.  Eating only vegetable and fruit?

  • Have a balanced diet. 
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Date: Sunday, July 07, 2019
Album: The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra (#85)
Location: WMT
Ref ID: hTZxXURTB9U
​Highlights​​​
  • ​Chapter 5, Slide #1
  • Thinking mind (the mind that differentiates)
  • Don't be so proud of your discriminating mind.
  • What is purity?
Outstanding Chatroom question
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From (Pan Pan)
  1. Can you not have anger, stupidity, and greed and still have discrimination? (Yes)
  2. Is the person impure or the world impure who is the root of impurity (You)

From (Chicken2u)
  1. Can’t duality be transcend by practicing the middle way? (Yes, in theory)

​From (Dinh Thai)
  1. Technically question is the unmoving state the same as 8th ground bodhisattva (Not only limited to them)