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Venerable Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture on Contemplating Life
Today I'm going to ramble on a bit about life. Of course, life is a huge topic, so for a little monk like me to ramble on about it feels a bit out of place. And in front of all of you, it feels even more absurd—many of you are my parents...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: The Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Part 4 — Observing Sensations as Wind
Mindfulness of feelings (vedanā-upassanā).
ReadAppreciating a Zen Verse: Countless as Sands, None Attains Awakening — The Fault Lies in Seeking the Path of Words
Chan Master Dongshan Liangjie (Tang Dynasty)
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Lectures on the Mahāyāna One Hundred Dharmas Treatise, Part 7
Now, the sixth consciousness. What is it exactly? It's the function of discerning mental objects, and it depends on the faculty of manas. Note: the root the sixth consciousness relies on is the seventh consciousness, manas. Take this era...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation — Lecture 2: Principles and a Method of Practice
The Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture Two Principles and a Method of Practice
ReadContinued Records of Guanyin's Spiritual Inspiration
Lay follower Mao Lingyun
ReadVenerable Master Gangxiao: Lecture Notes on the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas, Part 5
Lecture Notes on the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas, Part 5
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture 1: Cultivating Awakened Nature
These days, stress and sorrow seem to be everywhere. Almost everyone falls into one of two camps: those riding high on the four worldly fortunes—gain, honor, praise, pleasure—and those weighed down by their opposites—loss, disrepute, bla...
ReadThe Ascetic's Revenge
This story appears in the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra. There was once a king who kept company with a scholar of great renown and high social standing, though he never gave the man any official title—in today’s terms, he might have func...
ReadRealizing That All Dharmas Are False Distinctions and Unreal
Like a heat-haze mirage—"heat-haze mirage"—not in the cold season, but in spring and summer when the weather warms up, that's when you see this "mirage." What is it? When the sun beats down on the earth, moisture rises from the ground. W...
ReadYan Poluo, the Man Who Looked Like a Hungry Ghost
Any Buddhist practitioner—including every disciple of the Buddha—who fails to understand how good and evil deeds ripen into their results, and who goes on committing verbal wrongs while practicing the Dharma, becomes the most pitiful of ...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: An Inquiry into the *Madhyamakāvatāra*'s Refutation of a Substantively Existent Self
Lin Chong'an
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