Best Meditation Center Victorville Near Me

4worldlovers: From left clockwise: Thich Tam Mung, Thich Tam Pho MInh, Thich Tam Vui Mung, Thich Tam Dat, Thich Tam Tri

The foundational teachings of Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are explained below.

Also called Sesshins, these Zazen retreats are focused on seated and walking meditation practice in the Zendo. Participants may have a private conversation with the Roshi (Dokusan). Please RSVP for all retreats.

Please contact us for support and assistance with marriages, blessings of children, dedications, funerals and memorial services.

In the Zendo starting at 7pm. Followed by tea and conversation.

The annual calendar of events and celebrations at the DZC includes: Vu Lan , Buddha’s Birthday, Temple Days, Reaffirming the Precepts, Bodhi Day and the Rains Season Retreats.

This important Buddhist ceremony takes place the last Sunday of every month at 11 am

Video of Roshi’s dharma talks (a sermon or public discourse on Buddhism) are archived on the DZC’s YouTube channel, and can be viewed at the bottom of this page. Also, Sunday services and dharma talks are live streamed on our Facebook page.

The center was purchased in 1976 and was used for monthly meditation retreats by the members of the Long Beach Zen Monastery and the International Buddhist Meditation Center.

In 1982, the Venerable Thich An Giao and his Senior Disciple, Thich Tam Hien moved to the desert to take up permanent residence at the Center. At that time the temple was named Monjuji. Since then, a number of buildings have been erected, a number of monks trained and the service to the local community expanded.

At the first Grand Ordination at our temple, held in December of 1999, the Temple was renamed Chua Thien An in remembrance of the Most Venerable Thich Thien An, Roshi’s Vietnamese Master.

Suffering - Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress are suffering. Being attached to the unloved is suffering, being separated from the loved is suffering, not getting what one wants is suffering. In short the five aggregates of grasping are suffering.

The Origin of Suffering - Craving gives rise to rebirth, bound up with pleasure and lust, finding fresh delight now here and now there, that is to say sensual craving, craving for existence, and craving for non-existence.

The Cessation of Suffering - It is the complete fading-away and extinction of this craving, the forsaking and abandonment of it, the liberation and detachment from it.

The Way of practice leading to the Cessation of Suffering - It is just this, the Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.

In each case below the first word used is “right”. The sanskrit word this based on is either “samyak” or “samyag”. This is normally translated as “right” but has a meaning of complete or wholesome. These words are also sometimes translated either as “correct” or “perfect”.

Refraining from taking life, taking what is not freely given, and sexual misconduct. Avoiding actions that conflict with moral discipline.

Contemplation of the body as body, feelings as feelings, mind as mind, and mind objects as mind objects. Clearly aware having put aside hankering and fretting for the world.