A short Dharma talk about the ordination process and some of the lessons that come from becoming a Buddhist monk. Sometimes its the small things, the things we take for granted, from which the most important lessons can be found.Af Arizona Buddhist Temple

Suffering is part of our shared human experience, and while that can be alienating, it can also be an opportunity to come together. The fact that we are not alone in these experiences is an opportunity for gratitude and joy. In this talk, Sensei Vonn Magnin discusses some of the perspectives that we can adopt during times of stress and strife. Simp…

Today’s topic is extinction! When we think about this word we usually associate it with dinosaurs, animals, but in a Buddhist sense, nothing lasts forever and not even the Dharma is impervious to this truth. Today Rev. Lynn discusses our ideas of extinction and impermanence, especially as they pertain to the last dharma age. The last dharma age is …

Sensei Vonn is a currently a tokudo minister at the Arizona Buddhist Temple, where he has been serving for the past two years. As a former military man he brings a lot of really different insights that many of us don’t get to see on a daily basis and therefore brings a really unique and interesting perspective to his interpretations of Buddhism. He…

There is that old Buddhist saying that “you can’t step into the same river twice.” A simple saying, but still a profound one, while we might call it the same river, while we might give it a name that does not change, it’s never the same water, and more than that, the causes and conditions surrounding the river are always different from moment to mo…