Master YongHua (Bodhi Light International)

Master YongHua (Bodhi Light International) Master YongHua is a Buddhist monk who propogates Mahayana Buddhism.

Master YongHua is the founder of Bodhi Light International (BLI) – a non-profit religious organization dedicated by benefitting all living beings through the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism. He is the head of Bodhi Light International, Inc., and abbot of Lu Mountain Temple in Rosemead, California 91770, USA.

✨ Why Are We Afraid to Die? The Fourth SkandhaThe Fourth Skandha is mental formations—the intentions, habits, impulses, ...
09/14/2026

✨ Why Are We Afraid to Die? The Fourth Skandha

The Fourth Skandha is mental formations—the intentions, habits, impulses, reactions, and conditioned patterns that shape our lives.

Over time, these patterns help construct the person we call “me.”

My identity.
My relationships.
My plans.
My accomplishments.
My future.

We become deeply attached to this story and expect it to continue.

Death frightens us because it threatens everything familiar. It challenges our sense of control and the identity we have spent a lifetime constructing.

The conditioned self struggles to survive.

But our habits, reactions, and personal stories are always changing. They are formations—things that arise because of causes and conditions.

They are not permanent.

When we begin observing our intentions and reactions without automatically following them, our attachment to the constructed self gradually loosens.

And when attachment softens, fear can soften too.

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🌿 Saturday at Bodhi Light International 🌿Spend your Saturday cultivating wisdom, clarity, and compassion through meditat...
09/12/2026

🌿 Saturday at Bodhi Light International 🌿
Spend your Saturday cultivating wisdom, clarity, and compassion through meditation, Dharma instruction, and Sutra study.
Join us for a full day of practice and learning with Master YongHua and the Sangha.
🧘 10:00 AM — Meditation with Master
🎙️ 11:00 AM — Dharma Talk
🥗 12:00 PM — Free Vegetarian Lunch
📖 1:30 PM — Vimalakirti Sutra Lecture
Whether you are new to Buddhism or a longtime cultivator, everyone is welcome to attend and learn together.
📍 In Person & Online
▶️ Watch Live on YouTube:
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May we deepen our understanding of the Dharma and bring greater wisdom into our daily lives.

Join us at **7:20 PM for a Dharma Talk with Master YongHua**, offered during the Emperor Liang Repentance.The Emperor Li...
09/10/2026

Join us at **7:20 PM for a Dharma Talk with Master YongHua**, offered during the Emperor Liang Repentance.

The Emperor Liang Repentance invites us to reflect sincerely, recognize the causes of suffering, and begin releasing the burdens created through our actions, words, and thoughts. Master YongHua’s Dharma instruction will help deepen our understanding of repentance and guide us in applying the teachings to our cultivation and daily lives.

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✨ You Are Addicted to Thinking: The Third SkandhaThe Third Skandha is perception—the part of the mind that recognizes, l...
09/09/2026

✨ You Are Addicted to Thinking: The Third Skandha

The Third Skandha is perception—the part of the mind that recognizes, labels, compares, and organizes everything we experience.

We see something, and the mind immediately decides:

Good or bad.
Pleasant or unpleasant.
Friend or enemy.
Success or failure.

Before we realize it, the direct experience has disappeared beneath a story about what it means.

We replay the past.

We imagine the future.

We analyze conversations, defend opinions, predict problems, and become trapped inside conclusions created by our own minds.

Thinking is useful—but when we cannot stop thinking, we lose contact with what is actually here.

Chan practice helps us notice thoughts without chasing them.

We can pause before labeling.

We can observe without immediately judging.

And we can return to the direct experience of this moment—before the mind turns it into another story.

🎥 Watch this short teaching:

[Watch here](https://youtube.com/shorts/0GUZ-u1gjtk?si=yMsKg1ZirZjCAU-J)

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✨ The Foundation of True HappinessEducation can teach us many valuable things.It can teach us technology, professional s...
09/08/2026

✨ The Foundation of True Happiness

Education can teach us many valuable things.

It can teach us technology, professional skills, and how to succeed in the external world.

But if education fails to provide a foundation for our inner lives, it cannot show us how to be truly happy.

Happiness does not come from outside of us.

External things may reinforce or stimulate happiness temporarily—but they cannot sustain it.

True happiness keeps rising from within.

That is why we must care for the inside of the mind and cultivate goodness in the heart.

Without goodness, lasting happiness is impossible.

And the foundation of goodness begins with something very simple:

Resist the temptation to hurt or harm others.

Pause before speaking cruelly.
Choose not to retaliate.
Let go of the desire to cause pain.
Practice kindness even when it is difficult.

This is how we build a strong inner foundation.

Become gooder and gooder and gooder.

And allow true happiness to grow from there.

🎥 Watch this short teaching:

[Watch here](https://youtube.com/shorts/nTe2nMy1TP8?si=JlRvXYLDLq5btyLf)

🙏 Be a Gooder Person

✨ The Second Skandha: Attachment to FeelingsEvery experience carries a feeling tone.It may feel pleasant, unpleasant, or...
09/07/2026

✨ The Second Skandha: Attachment to Feelings

Every experience carries a feeling tone.

It may feel pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.

The feeling itself is not the problem. Our attachment to it is what creates suffering.

We chase pleasant feelings because we want them to continue.

We resist unpleasant feelings because we want them to disappear.

And we often ignore neutral feelings because they do not seem interesting enough to hold our attention.

But feelings are always changing.

Joy changes.
Sadness changes.
Pain changes.
Excitement changes.
Even the strongest emotions arise, remain for a while, and eventually pass.

When we identify with a feeling—“I am angry,” “I am afraid,” or “I must keep feeling happy”—we give it power over us.

Chan practice teaches us to experience feelings clearly without grasping, resisting, or immediately reacting.

Feel the feeling.

Observe it.

But remember: you do not have to follow it.

🎥 Watch this short teaching:

[Watch here](https://youtube.com/shorts/xxFMohpfe2I?si=8YFPBmt2EfHBw29C)

🙏 Be a Gooder Person

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