Practice
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Lay Buddhist Zhuang Chunjiang: Basic Understanding of Buddhist Practice, Chapter 5: Buddhism in Everyday Life, Section 2: Counteracting and Taming
As the six sense bases engage with their corresponding objects, we ordinary beings can't even stay in the state of "lucid contact" — letting contact remain just contact, without spiraling into defilement. Even stopping at the stage of "f...
ReadGuanyin Bodhisattva's Fourteen Kinds of Fearlessness
【World-Honored One! Through this hearing-refined, hearing-cultivated vajra samādhi and its unconditioned wondrous power, I share the same grief and longing for joy as all sentient beings across the six realms, ten directions, and three t...
ReadGe Ming: Why the Three Refuges Are Essential for Dharma Practitioners
The Three Refuges—taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha—are the most basic and essential gateway into Buddhist study and practice. Though outwardly a formal act, they reflect an inner transformation of heart, turning sc...
ReadVenerable Master Yicheng: A Brief Biography
Venerable Master Yicheng (1926 – December 21, 2017), lay surname Zhou, given name Yunsheng, was a native of Wangcheng, Hunan. He lived to the age of 91, and following his cremation, more than 600 sacred relics (śarīra) were recovered. Ma...
ReadSuzuki Roshi's 12 Guidelines for Zen in Everyday Life
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi was one of the pioneers who carried Buddhism and Zen practice into the Western world. The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche respectfully called Suzuki Roshi his "spiritual father."
ReadOnce Across, Let Go of the Raft; Not Yet Across, You Still Need the Boat
Verse One: Given to His Students
ReadWhy We Often Feel Lonely
Why Do We Often Feel Lonely?
ReadProf. Lin Chong'an: A Q&A on Insight Meditation
A: Vipassana—Chinese 内观 (nèiguān), "inner observation"—is what in English we usually call "insight."
ReadZen Practice Helps Us Learn How to Live (Akapa Rinpoche)
After attaining enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha realized that beyond the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death that defines human existence lies what we call life itself: seemingly vast, boundless, and infinite. From that m...
ReadAppreciating Chan Poetry: Every Green Mountain Is a Dharma Hall
A Farewell Verse
ReadA Brief Introduction to Master Mingzhe
Elder Mingzhe, courtesy name Rijing, secular name Zhang Yuxiang, monastic name Yunxiang, was born in March 1925 in Jining, Shandong Province. He began studying at a private school at the age of seven, practicing vegetarianism and learnin...
ReadInvesting in Solitude
Selected from: Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche's Not for Happiness
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