Fo Guang Shan St. Louis Buddhist Center

English Dharma Service For April 4 1. Today's Service: https://youtu.be/EihIhJivcyo 2. Dharma Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di2K--ZfPuI English Chanting Sheet: https://bit.ly/3eAjTvo THIS WEEK'S DHARMA TEACHING: BBuddhism & Daily Life: Building Our Spiritual HabitsChanging the Mind... Speaker: Venerable Jue JI Change your mind! What is the correlation between changing our minds and practicing Buddhism? To cultivate is to change ourselves to be a better person. In this episode on Building Our Spiritual Practice, Venerable Jue Ji discusses three ways we can cultivate our mind: be a Dharma instrument, find a spiritual guide, and witness the magic work. Changing the mind is a process to manifest the generous, compassionate, wise, and diligent perspectives of the mind. It is an ongoing process that is entirely dependent on ourselves.

- Fo Guang Shan St Louis Buddhist Center is going to hosting a special Dharma function to commemorate the Qing Ming Festival on April 4th. The ceremony is an opportunity to transfer merits to your ancestors, wishing them rebirth into the Western Pureland. Chanting Book : https://drive.google.com//1XgDuuX7wV3O2A6VcfCFlENg61/view... Date of the Service: Sunday, April 4, 2021 Time: 10:00am~4:00pm Stream Live on Facebook Page and YouTube Channel

English Dharma Service For March 28 1. Today's Service: https://youtu.be/EihIhJivcyo 2. Dharma Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWCTg8NJjmQ English Chanting Sheet: https://bit.ly/3eAjTvo... THIS WEEK'S DHARMA TEACHING: Buddhist Meditation ((5): The Four Bases of Mindfulness Speaker: Venerable Hui Cheng As we learn to be mindful, we are training ourselves to set and reset the mind on the everchanging physical and mental phenomena. In this final episode on Buddhist meditation, Venerable Hui Cheng discusses the practice of the Four Bases of Mindfulness. The Four Bases of Mindfulness serves as the framework for mindfulness in all areas of one’s moment-by-moment life. It breaks up the practice of developing clear comprehension into a progression from coarser or more apparent objects of meditation to finer, more subtle objects of meditation, and finally to latent mental objects, which are the causes of all afflictions if unwholesome, and the causes of spiritual awakening and joy if wholesome. Meditation is not confined to the meditation cushion. Rather, it is an attitude of life to be maintained at all times.

Sunday Dharma Service in Chinese Language, Mar 21

English Dharma Service For March 21 1. Welcoming Words by Ven. Jue Huang: https://youtu.be/jOzvJPhseXE 2. Today's Service: https://youtu.be/EihIhJivcyo 3. Dharma Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwyhM7WQXRQ ... English Chanting Sheet: https://bit.ly/3eAjTvo THIS WEEK'S DHARMA TEACHING: Buddhist Meditation (4): Requisite understandings for practicing vipayan or insight meditation Speaker: Venerable Hui Cheng Continuing from last week's discussion on amatha meditation, this week's video on Buddhist meditation focuses on Vipayan meditation. Vipayan aims at purification of mind by gaining insight into the real nature of all phenomena. But the prerequisite of this practice is to establish an understanding of the human subjective world experience, or in Buddhist terms, understand the Five Aggregates. Tune in to Venerable Hui Cheng's detailed guide on the definition and function of the Five Aggregates.

Sunday Service in Chinese Language, Jan 24 https://www.fgsitc.org///Universal-Gate-Chapter_ChiEng.pdf

Pre-Recorded English Sunday Service for Jan 24 How Buddhism views the mind? https://youtu.be/8JqGqhNvCCU

Sunday Service in Chinese Language, Jan 17 Chinese Chanting Book https://www.fgsitc.org///Universal-Gate-Chapter_ChiEng.pdf

Pre-recorded English Sunday Service for Jan 17 Good morning fellow Dharma friends. Please join us for the short service and an inspiring talk on how to practice mindfulness. https://youtu.be/ru_PIUegqCM

*Bodhi Light Tales Podcast* *Short Stories of Buddhism by Ven. Master Hsing Yun* Storyteller: Venerable Miao Guang ... ```#83 - Sandalwood``` How can we make the best use of everything around us and make them valuable and precious? A sandalwood merchant had difficulties selling his high-quality sandalwood. A charcoal merchant came by to give him some ideas... Find out what happened in this podcast episode: http://bit.ly/3seLnLp Read the full story here: https://bodhilightfgs.blogspot.com/2021//83-sandalwood.html : http://bit.ly/3seLnLp : https://bodhilightfgs.blogspot.com/2021//83-sandalwood.html

Sunday Chanting Service in Chinese Language, Nov 8 Chinese Chanting Book https://www.fgsitc.org///Universal-Gate-Chapter_ChiEng.pdf

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English Chanting Service, Nov 1

Sunday Chanting Service in Chinese Language, Nov 1

Let us connect one another with faith and compassion.