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15Apr/21

Editing the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 4

04/15/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

“Enlightening beings who strengthen their commitment to enlightenment must do so by helping beings become committed to enlightenment. This state of mind is neither form nor perspective; such a Dharma is unattainable. Why? It is because beings are empty.”

05Apr/21

Reviewing the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 3

04/05/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

1. Read over your work for the second, third, or more times. However, immediately after you finish translating may not be most helpful. Give it a day to a week, and after more meditating, before you re-read your draft translation. You will have changes you will want to make.

22Mar/21

Drafting the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 2

03/22/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

2. Get ready to be creative and focused. For the first draft, be ready to be a writer more than anything else. Don’t stop. Keep going. When you encounter a hurdle, enter the Chinese, add your questions, comments, and/or alternative translations. Come back to these later though -- during the review and editing stages.

18Mar/21

Preparing to Translate: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 1

03/18/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

Preparation before translating: 1. Meditate, access inherent nature of wisdom and compassion. Allow your inner guide to lead you to the right text and words. And meditate whenever you need some guidance and help anywhere along the way.

17Mar/21

Dear My Girl Me,

03/17/2021dominance, girl, males, power, sexual misconduct, sexual prowess, womendominance, girl, males, sexual misconduct, sexual prowess, womenTCN

Girl, I so want to see you be a happy, healthy, and strong woman that you are meant to be. I see how both women and men, along with our culture in general, treat you like the weaker sex, expecting and unconsciously molding you into a feeble someone who uses her feminine wiles, and indirectly or underhandedly, to get her way while waiting for her savior.

16Oct/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go: 10 on Consciousness — the Shurangama Sutra XX

10/16/2018buddhism, meditation, shurangamabuddhism, enlightenment, mantra, meditation, mind, sage, shurangama, sourceTCN

Conscious thinking is the root of illusions. Breakthrough with the consciousness aggregate means that you are the master of your senses. The sense stimulants and your six senses no longer control you. This is the 20th and final lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.

15Oct/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go: 10 on Volition — the Shurangama Sutra XIX

10/15/2018buddhism, meditation, shurangamabuddhism, enlightenment, mantra, meditation, mind, sage, shurangama, sourceTCN

To leap out from the cycle of birth and death, to avoid continual incarnations in different realms, to become a being who transmigrates to a certain place and time only by your vows – the cessation of volition is a must. This is the 19th lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.

08Oct/18

Meditation States around the Thought Aggregate to Let Go — the Shurangama Sutra XVIII

10/08/2018buddhism, meditation, shurangamabuddhism, enlightenment, mantra, meditation, mind, sage, shurangama, sourceTCN

When thoughts cease, when the thinking aggregate rests, you may speak like talking in your sleep. You claim to be enlightened and make things happen for your admirers that appear out of this world. While all this is progress, it’s also a danger zone. More on what to be cautious of here. This is the 18th lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.

04Oct/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go: 10 on Feeling — the Shurangama Sutra XVII

10/04/2018buddhism, meditation, shurangamabuddhism, enlightenment, mantra, meditation, mind, sage, shurangama, sourceTCN

We take our feelings too seriously sometimes. We either hold them too dear or resist them too hard. To an advanced meditator, emotions come and go, ephemeral like clouds. This is the 17th lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.

03Oct/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go: 10 on Form — the Shurangama Sutra XVI

10/03/2018buddhism, meditation, shurangamabuddhism, enlightenment, mantra, meditation, mind, sage, shurangama, sourceTCN

Walk through walls, burned but unharmed. . . these are just trivial states a meditator might experience. Not a big deal. And don’t make a big deal of it. This is the 16th lesson to the 2018 Teaching Series on the Buddhist text that teaches listening as a form of meditation and a most powerful mantra for those interested in enlightenment for themselves and others.