Shop – Books https://books.lymtcanada.com LYMT Canada Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:35:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://books.lymtcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Shop – Books https://books.lymtcanada.com 32 32 Reconnecting with Inner Tranquility https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/reconnecting-with-inner-tranquility/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=83 This book is divided into four sections: Right Views, the Mundane Way, Practice, and Buddha Recitation. Each section provides valuable insight into our lives, as well as practical guidance on how we can address the root causes of suffering and reconnect with our inherent, inner state of tranquility and happiness.

]]> Complex Questions Simple Answers – Family, Relationships, and Other Questions of Life https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/complex-questions-simple-answers-family-relationships-and-other-questions-of-life/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=81 This book is a translated compilation of answers provided at public events by the Venerable Master in his native Mandarin Language.

You will notice that the Venerable Master’s answers in this book are simple. Based on his in-depth study of Buddhism, he could have given us highly complicated and philosophical answers to the questions of life; he had all the intellectual knowledge to do this. Instead, he spared us the trouble and told us in a few sentences what we should do to live meaningful lives starting today and to prepare ourselves for the hereafter.

]]> Dispelling Doubt in the Sea of Dharma https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/dispelling-doubt-in-the-sea-of-dharma/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=82 Through a question and answer series, Venerable Master Miao Lien describes the practices and methods necessary to create beneficial causal conditions that eventually lead to superior conditions for existing within, up to and including emancipation from suffering and becoming a Buddha. They are disarmingly simple, requiring no special talent or ability beyond the simple intention to perform them earnestly. The hardest part is faith in the method, a stumbling block that impeded some of the greatest Dharma Masters of the past. Even though the ability of past Dharma Masters may have been far in excess of our own, being able to accept and practice the Pure Land teachings is no more difficult to grasp for ourselves than it was for them. It is the most egalitarian of all the Buddhist schools by being equally within reach for all people regardless of whether they are of high or low capacity. So, it is in the spirit of accessibility and inclusiveness that it is being presented to you here in this short book.

]]> Pure Land for all 2 https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/pure-land-for-all-2/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=85 Pure Land for All contains Dharma lectures delivered by Venerable Master Miao Lien. How do we cultivate Buddhism? What causes and conditions that will allow us to reach the so-called Western Pure Land? What is Pure Land?

]]> 20 Difficulties to Leading a Spiritual Life https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/20-difficulties-to-leading-a-spiritual-life/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=84 The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha was the first sutra to be translated into Chinese and brought from India by the Venerable Elders Kashyapa-matanga and Gobharana around 67CE, during the reign of the Han dynasty emperor Han Ming Di.
This publication of Section 12 of the Sutra seeks to make Venerable Master Miao Lien’s guidance on the Buddha’s list of twenty difficulties more widely available. These twenty difficulties, while pertinent to all people, can be organized into two categories. Difficulties one to three describe the obstacles to secular cultivation while the rest explain the challenges of non-secular cultivation. Within the latter category, difficulties four to seventeen focus on the hindrances to self-cultivation, and the final three difficulties delve into the arduous task of delivering sentient beings.

]]> Buddhism Works https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/buddhism-works/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=73 The Venerable Master often used stories and parables to present the Dharma in a lively and easy-to-understand way. This book is a collection of stories from the Venerable Master’s daily lectures. They allow you to know the truth of life, understand cause and effect, and become aware of impermanence from different perspectives. As the book has something for everyone, people of all ages will enjoy reading these wonderful stories. This is the best book for those who want to learn about Buddhism but do not know where to start.

]]> Immigration in Buddhism https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/immigration-in-buddhism/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=70 This book is a collection of Venerable Master Miao Lien’s Dharma lectures in 1997, in which the Venerable Master connected with thousands of Dharma-seeking attendees, planting the cause of their future rebirth in the Western Pure Land. In his Dharma lectures, the Venerable Master painted a picture of the ultimate, most tranquil and peaceful land, urging everyone to immigrate to this truly peaceful home—the Western Pure Land. Through the publication of this book, we wish to share this Dharma joy with the public. May we all immigrate to the Western Pure Land in the future and attain Buddhahood soon.

]]> Pure Land for all https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/pure-land-for-all/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=69 This book is a compilation of some of the quintessential Dharma lectures of Venerable Master Miao Lien that he addressed to retreat participants. The Venerable Master often said, “To fully comprehend why one must seek rebirth in the Western Pure Land, one must read Pure Land for All!”
Such is the brilliant guidance of one of the greatest Pure Land Masters who attained his profound understanding through actual practice. Herein lie not only the elements of study and practice, but also aspects of both the phenom¬enal and noumenal worlds, as well as the vast, compas¬sionate vows of the Venerable Master. May all who read this book attain rebirth in the Western Pure Land.

]]> One Minute Wisdom – Pure Words for the Pure Mind https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/one-minute-wisdom-pure-words-for-the-pure-mind/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=78 Ancient mariners had a problem. After leaving land for months at a time, sailors often became very ill and their teeth began to fall out. Many men died from this. As we know today, this problem is called scurvy and it is caused by not getting enough vitamin C in one’s diet. The first navy doctor to discover the cause and cure for this condition helped many people in his lifetime and wrote down this knowledge in a book for future generations. Despite this, with the passing of time after his death, the knowledge was lost since nobody bothered reading his book. It
sat in some library archive while sailors once again continued to suffer and die from this preventable affliction, until the knowledge was once again “discovered.”
The Dharma is the body of knowledge compassionately given to us by the Buddha. In his wisdom, the Buddha understood the causes and conditions of our afflictions which are the roots of suffering. Although some texts of the Buddha’s teachings have been lost or forgotten, many still remain. However, without an audience to receive this knowledge it will serve no benefit. Just as the cure for scurvy existing as information in a library archive didn’t prevent sailors from losing their teeth and dying, the Dharma will not prevent afflictions and suffering if people don’t know about it and apply it to their lives.
It is in that spirit that we present you with this catalog of excerpts from Master Miao Lien’s teachings. This book is not linear. It does not need to be read in order from front to back. You can open any page and read any paragraph you want. By presenting the information this way it requires very little commitment. There is value even if you read it for only one minute. All the teachings tie together yet are independent unto themselves. We hope this makes the book easy to read and the teachings more accessible to the reader.

]]> Venerable “Not Poor” Aniruddha https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/venerable-not-poor-aniruddha/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=76 The Venerable Master often used stories and parables to present the Dharma in a lively and easy-to-understand way. This book is a collection of stories from the Venerable Master’s daily lectures. They allow you to know the truth of life, understand cause and effect, and become aware of impermanence from different perspectives. As the book has something for everyone, people of all ages will enjoy reading these wonderful stories. This is the best book for those who want to learn about Buddhism but do not know where to start.

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