2026 LAND OF ENLIGHTENED WISDOM    TEACHING PROGRAM and EVENTS

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	Geshe Sherap teaches Buddhist Philosophy classes at the center and on-line.

LETTER TO A FRIEND SATURDAY at 2:00pm PST Class on the 1rst, 3rd and 4th Saturdays    ENTERING THE MIDDLE WAY SUNDAY at 2:00pm PST    SIXTY STANZAS ON REASONING WEDNESDAY at 4:30pm PST FRIDAY at 4:30pm PST

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	MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA
	SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2026 at 11:00am Lead By Geshe Tenzin Sherap

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	Practioners chanting the Medicine Buddha Mantra.

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MEDITATIONS FOR ANAYLSIS

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Entering The Middle Way Therefore the Buddha declared that all phenomena are primordially tranquil and devoid of arising and that they transcend the bounds of sorrow. Thus things have no arising at any time. 6.112 Things such as vases do not exist in ultimate reality, yet they exist as well-known entities of the world. Since all entities are likewise the same, the consequence that they are like a barren woman’s son is not entailed. 6.113 Because entities do not arise from no cause, from causes such as Īśvara, from self, from other, or from both; they arise entirely through dependence. 6.114 In that things originate entirely through dependence, such concepts [as self-arising] cannot withstand analysis, so this reasoning of dependent origination rips to shreds the entire matrix of false views. 6.115 Such concepts would be in order if real entities did exist; that no such entity exists has already been analyzed. Without such an entity, those concepts would not come to be; for example, without fuel there can be no fire. 6.116 Ordinary beings are chained by conceptualization; yogis, who do not conceptualize, become free. The wise have said that the very cessation of conceptualization is the fruit of refined analysis. 6.117

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Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning Homage to the youthful Manjushri. Homage to the Able One Who taught dependent origination, The means by which are eliminated Arising and destruction. 1. Those whose mind has transcended Existence and non-existence and abides no more [in them], They’ve realized the meaning of conditioned existence, The profound absence of objectification. 2. First non-existence, the source of all faults, Had already been undone; Now listen to the reasoning That undoes existence itself as well.

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Homage That which originates dependently Does not cease and does not arise, Does not come and does not go, Is not annihilated and is not permanent, Is not different and not the same. To the true teacher who reveals this peace, The complete pacification of constructs, To the perfect Buddha I bow down