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All Three Great Hurdles Are Settled for Us Within This Single Thought
Let us look at the Eleventh Vow, the Vow that Right Samadhi Will Definitely Lead to Nirvana: "If, when I attain Buddhahood, the humans and devas in my land do not abide in the right samadhi group and do not ultimately reach nirvana, may ...
ReadProvisions Appear at the Mere Thought of Them — This Truly Inspires Our Longing
Let’s turn to the Thirty-Eighth Vow. The Thirty-Eighth Vow is "The Vow That Wonderful Garments Appear Spontaneously on One's Body." These ‘wonderful garments’ are the kāṣāya, the monastic robe worn by bhikkhus. If, when I attain buddhaho...
ReadWhen You Abandon the Mind of Seeking Gain, the Supreme Treasury of Jewels Is Opened
Right then, after Mahakashyapa had laid out a parable in prose, he turned to verse to make the same point: "Today, we have heard the Buddha's teaching." What does "today" point to? The Lotus Sutra assembly. Before the Lotus Sutra, the Bu...
ReadAppreciating a Chan Poem — The Mind Already Free of Dust, Why Wash It? The Body Without Illness, Why Seek a Doctor?
Chan Master Zhizhen of Guishan [Tang Dynasty]
ReadKnowing the Suffering Nature of This Five-Aggregate Body-Mind Is the Very Virtue of the Dharma Body
“With each passing thought, impermanence holds sway; deluded feelings grow ever coarser—this is what we call sudden collapse.” Once the wheel of rebirth turns with a single deluded thought, and that momentum carries forward unbroken over...
ReadVenerable Master Gangxiao: Zen Seven Lecture – Reciting the Buddha's Name with the Three Minds
Amitabha. Blessings to all the masters.
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Essentials of Śamatha and Vipaśyanā from the *Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra*, Śrāvakabhūmi — 5. The Sixteen Superior Practices of Mindfulness of Breathing
◎ The practice of breath meditation encompasses the complete path of śamatha and vipaśyanā.
ReadFor the vast majority of people, the heaviest thought is the thought of sexual desire
Only when you have a deep, abiding awareness of this body’s impurity—when you turn that awareness to yourself, and to all men and women, seeing that every one of us is exactly the same—can genuine revulsion and weariness well up from wit...
ReadChant the Buddha's Name with Single-Minded Sincerity, and Your Chan Practice Is Complete
So who is the one who chiefly investigates while reciting the Buddha's name? The inquiry "Who is reciting the Buddha's name?" was first raised by patriarchs such as Tianqi Benrui Chan Master, but why did they propose it? We need to explo...
ReadFocus and Awareness: Dharma in Daily Life from *Fundamentals of Buddhist Practice*
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ReadContinually Sweeping the Dust from the Mind
Zen Master Dingzhou was walking through the monastery courtyard with a young novice when a sudden gust of wind swept through, sending a flurry of leaves tumbling from the trees. The old master bent down, picked them up one by one, and tu...
ReadThe mind is originally unmoving — so who is it that moves?
How wondrous: the self-nature is free of all birth and death. The mind of an ordinary person is caught in ceaseless rise and fall, because we cling to the idea of a separate self. Once we latch onto this “I,” we start grasping at externa...
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