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Chan Practice | Samadhi and Prajñā Held in Balance (II)
"According to your judgment, within the gate of cultivation after awakening, the meaning of samādhi and prajñā held in balance has two kinds: one, the samādhi and prajñā of self-nature; two, the samādhi and prajñā that follow characteris...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture 3: The Sutra of the Six Similes of Life
Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture 3: The Parable of the Six Creatures Sūtra 【Key Point】: Mindfulness of the Body 【Scriptural Basis】: Sūtra 1171 from the Saṃyukta Āgama
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
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...
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...
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...
ReadThe Great Mengshan Food Offering — A Buddhist Ceremony for the Benefit and Liberation of Beings Across the Six Realms
The Mengshan food offering is aimed at relieving wandering hungry ghosts. In the Song dynasty, there was a master known as Budong (also called the Ganlu, "Sweet Dew," Great Master), who lived on Meng Mountain in Sichuan. Moved by compass...
ReadGuanyin Bodhisattva Is in Your Home
Buddhas and bodhisattvas appear in this world to teach in countless ways, and they very often ground their teaching in filial piety. There is a well-known parable from mainland China about a mother and her son. The mother was widowed you...
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
ReadProf. Lin Chong'an: The Rope and the Snake Analogy
Lin Chong-an, 2007
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