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What Is a Koan (Part 2)
files for cases with no prior precedent. In the Chan (Zen) tradition, by contrast, the term refers to the individual awakening cases of ancient Chan masters. They are stories of exchanges between Chan lineage patriarchs and their discipl...
ReadThe Zen Master's Throne
When Master Foguang gave teachings, held discourses, or met with students in mind-to-mind encounter, he always sat on a throne in the Dharma Hall. To everyone in the monastery, the throne was a symbol of the Dharma and a mark of awakenin...
ReadAppreciating a Chan Verse — When Patience Immortal Sat in Meditation Beneath the Trees, King Kali Once Dismembered His Limbs
Chan Master Guishan Zhizhen of the Tang Dynasty
ReadAppreciating Chan Verse — Who Says Living in the World Hinders the Way? The Golden Grain Tathāgata Once Took the Form of an Elder
By Chan Master Zhizhen of Guishan, Tang Dynasty
ReadChan Meditation | Deep Faith in Cause and Effect
Chan meditation is the proper practice and the direct path for those who cultivate the Way. Yet speaking of it is easy: it only takes a single pure thought, constant self-reflection and inner illumination, and keeping a clear, luminous a...
ReadVenerable Gangxiao: Lecture on the Chan Seven Retreat, What Is "Seven"?
Venerable masters, with your great compassion, I'll continue from where I left off yesterday. We covered the reasons for holding a seven-day Chan retreat. There are two.
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Chan Seven Talk – Why Do a Seven
Venerable masters, to be honest, I've always been a layman when it comes to doing a Seven—whether a Chan Seven or a Buddha-recitation Seven. As for practice, I've never been able to get a grip on it, and I feel deeply ashamed. Thanks to ...
ReadProfessor Lin Ch'ung-an: Theory and Practice of Chan Meditation, Lecture 5: Observing Dependent Origination
After cultivating calm (samatha), observe the arising and cessation of dependent origination. Only when calm and insight (vipassanā) are practiced together can suffering come to an end.
ReadChan Practice | Samadhi and Prajñā Held in Balance (II)
"According to your judgment, within the gate of cultivation after awakening, the meaning of samādhi and prajñā held in balance has two kinds: one, the samādhi and prajñā of self-nature; two, the samādhi and prajñā that follow characteris...
ReadYou Can't Change Others — Stop Trying
In the esoteric tradition there is a koan worth pondering deeply. Two young disciples were caring for an old master who was gravely ill — he could no longer even walk, and every day someone had to help him bathe and attend to his basic n...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Channa's Doubts
Lin Chong'an
ReadGoing Along with Conditions All Day While Remaining Unchanged
From the perspective of our single-thought mind-nature, though our present mind is a grasping, discriminative consciousness: a single instant of ignorance gives rise to the three subtle marks of existence; when the phenomenal realm, whic...
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