Words on
the way of Zen
Reflections on practice, tradition, and the everyday path of Zen.
Appreciating a Zen Poem: Being Buddha, No Need to Seek Buddha—Only Thus Are Bonds Forgotten
[Tang Dynasty] Chan Master Guishan Zhengyuan
ReadGangxiao: Why the Definitions of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Instances in Buddhist Logic Omit "Exclusion of the Thesis Subject"
Gang Xiao
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: The Essential Meaning of SA 334
Lin Chongan
ReadTrue Records of Guanyin Bodhisattva's Miraculous Responses
Linyuan Buddhist Hall
ReadRecord of Guanyin Bodhisattva's Miraculous Responses
Lay devotee Lin Cichao
ReadGuanyin's Dharma Gate
Venerable Wenzhu
ReadLecture Notes on the Upper Grade Supreme Birth Chapter in Master Shandao’s Fourfold Commentary on the Contemplation Sūtra
Master Jingkong
ReadTide-Watching Notes
Author: Mr. Geng Yun
ReadCommentary on the Contemplation Sutra in Four Sections
I begin by urging all gathered here, monastics and laypeople alike: Bring forth the supreme resolve and take refuge in the Three Jewels. Birth and death are so hard to tire of, And the Dharma so hard to rejoice in. Together, let us give ...
ReadA Brief Explanation of the Gatha of Praise to Amitabha Buddha
Author: Venerable Huixing
ReadGiving Brings Immeasurable Merit
The Venerable Maudgalyāyana’s younger brother was a wealthy elder of the city, with gold, silver, treasures, servants, and maidservants too numerous to count. One day, the Venerable visited his home to guide him toward the Dharma: “Young...
ReadBudai Monk
```markdown In Mingzhou Fenghua County lived a Cloth Bag Monk: short and stout, with a belly remarkably large. His speech was quirky, jumping from one offhand comment to the next, and he slept wherever he laid his head.
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