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The Eight-Year-Old Dragon Girl Attains Buddhahood in This Very Body
The Devadatta Chapter of the Lotus Sutra recounts the story of the eight-year-old Dragon Girl attaining Buddhahood in this very body. Sagara the Dragon King, whose might shakes the four seas, had a youngest princess who was bright, cleve...
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...
ReadTaoist Health Cultivation Methods
A core principle of Chinese Taoist thought is the pursuit of immortality and agelessness. From this core idea emerged Taoism’s systematic study of health cultivation and its dedicated practice of cultivation techniques.
Read4 Most Overlooked Signs of Kidney Deficiency: 2 Simple Tips to Keep Your Kidneys Healthy
The kidney is the body’s innate root. If we picture the human body as a tall tree, the kidney is its foundation: only when the root absorbs and passes along enough nourishment can the tree grow full and lush. Kidney deficiency can cause ...
ReadInsights from Daoist Alchemical Inner Nature Cultivation Practice for Human Health
‘Dual cultivation of life and innate nature’ is a specialized term in Daoist practice. However, many people misunderstand this phrase, mistaking it for a practice involving joint cultivation by men and women. In fact, what sets ‘dual cul...
ReadThe Six Syllables Qi Formula
Tuna refers to expelling stale, turbid qi from the chest through the mouth, then slowly drawing in fresh qi through the nose. The term appears in the Zhuangzi · Deliberations: "Blowing and breathing, exhaling the stale and inhaling the f...
ReadThe Secret Taoist Method of Cultivating Qi
Posture is also called body regulation, body method, and similar terms. For anyone new to static or dynamic gongfu practice, mastering proper posture is absolutely essential.
ReadDragon-Subduing Post: Training the Meridians and Fascia (Spirit Snake Startles Awake, Spiral Surge of Whole-Body Energy!)
The name Dragon-Subduing Post (降龙桩) is taken from the Xìngmìng Guīzhǐ Quánshū (《性命圭旨全书》, The Complete Book of Life and Destiny), specifically the section "Discourse on Subduing the Dragon" (《降龙说》):
ReadMaster Chushi Fanqi and His West Studio Pure Land Poems
In the history of our Pure Land tradition, there is one ancestral master we would do well to remember. Though he is not formally counted among the Pure Land patriarchs, he was a Chan master with a deep karmic affinity for Pure Land pract...
ReadAs soon as the eighth consciousness of those who recite the Buddha’s name departs the body, they immediately arrive at the lotus dais
First, let's discuss why we ordinary beings artificially separate what is inherently undivided between the two lands [the defiled Saha world of samsara and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss]. What's the root cause of this self-created divi...
ReadWho Is the Qielan Bodhisattva?
"Sangharama" is a general term for a monastery or Buddhist practice center, and it also refers to the protective deities associated with these places. In a narrow sense, it means the guardian spirit of a monastery's land. More broadly, i...
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