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Zen Poetry: If the Mind is Like a Tree, It Accords with the Way
The Tree Before the Gate — Tang Dynasty, Chan Master Longya Judong
ReadMaster Xuyun: The Mind is Like the Void
Long ago there was an elder practitioner who had lived for many years within a large monastic community. He was even-tempered and broad by nature, and always treated others with kindness. He often urged people to “let go, let go.” Someon...
ReadLuangpor Teean Mindfulness (Sati) in Motion: A Collection of Links
[http://www.mahasati.org.tw](http://www.mahasati.org.tw/) — Taiwan Mahasati Meditation Society [http://blog.sina.com.cn/mahasati](https://www.douban.com/link2/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.sina.com.cn%2Fmahasati) — Luangpor Teean Dynamic Medita...
ReadMaster Gang Xiao on the Twenty Verses on Consciousness-Only: The Nineteenth Verse
dān zhà jiā děng kōng yún hé yóu xiān fèn yì fá wéi dà zuì cǐ fù yún hé chéng
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Interpreting the Ancient Commentaries on Xuanzang's *True Consciousness-Only Syllogism*
Master Gangxiao: Interpreting the Ancient Commentaries on Xuanzang's True Consciousness-Only Syllogism
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...
ReadVenerable Gangxiao Explains the Sixth Gatha of the Twenty Verses on Consciousness-Only
Sixth Gatha
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...
ReadLay Practitioner Zhuang Chunjiang: A Study of Tathāgatagarbha — Chapter 3: The Development of the Teaching on the Mind's Innate Purity
According to the Mahāvibhāṣā and the Abhidharmakośa, "mind" (citta) carries the sense of "growing, accumulating, and lineage"—it's a broad, general term that doesn't denote a singular nature (which is why investigating its "substance" is...
ReadDo you really need a pure mind to be reborn in the Western Pure Land?
After learning about the supremely efficacious practice of nianfo (the continual recitation of the Buddha’s name to seek rebirth in the Pure Land), I feel the threshold for rebirth in the Western Pure Land is very low, and that one can b...
ReadHow to Tell If You Are Abiding in the Mind of Birth and Death or the Mind Beyond Birth and Death
Ananda addressed the Buddha, saying: "World-Honored One! I have been blessed with the Tathagata’s supreme compassionate teachings, and my mind has now opened and awakened. I know that through my own practice and realization, I can attain...
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