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Everything You Do in a Day Is Working Against Your Longevity
These conditions come in two kinds of assistance. Which two? One is the proximate condition—liberation comes quickly, attainment is swift. The other is the distant cause and condition; one attains liberation only after a long time. Speed...
ReadThe Practice of Samadhi Requires Both Cessation and Insight
There are many forms of the "perfection of samadhi," too many to cover completely here. Instead, I'll briefly outline three: first, worldly samadhi; second, trans-worldly samadhi; and third, supreme trans-worldly samadhi.
ReadVen. Gang Xiao: ECT Therapy for Difficult Conditions — Chapter 3: Conditions Recognized by Modern Psychiatry
Conditions Recognized by Modern Psychiatry
ReadVenerable Master Gangxiao: ECT Therapy for Intractable and Complicated Diseases, Chapter 2: Inspirations from Morita Theory
Inspirations from Morita Theory
ReadVen. Gangxiao: ECT Therapy for Intractable Illnesses — Chapter 1: Raising the Question
There is a class of illnesses rooted in psychological causes. When treated with standard physiological medicine, they often respond poorly, becoming what we call intractable conditions. ECT counts as both a device-based therapy and, at t...
ReadJiufeng Mountain: Entertainment Consumerism and AI-ism: A Hidden Prelude to the Decline of Human Civilization
Throughout the long arc of human history, a warning echoes again and again: when a society places entertainment and consumption at the pinnacle of its values, surrendering to the senses’ immediate gratification while abandoning the pursu...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Essentials of Śamatha and Vipaśyanā from the *Yogācārabhūmi Śāstra*, Śrāvakabhūmi — 5. The Sixteen Superior Practices of Mindfulness of Breathing
◎ The practice of breath meditation encompasses the complete path of śamatha and vipaśyanā.
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: *Essential Points of Samatha and Vipassanā in the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra, Śrāvakabhūmi* Part 4: Seven Types of Mental Engagement and the Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths
(4) Seven Types of Mental Engagement and the Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths
ReadMaster Xuyun: The Way Is Never Apart from Walking, Standing, Sitting, and Lying
you plant grain, which sprouts into seedlings, then transplant those seedlings to grow rice stalks, harvest the stalks for grain, and cook that grain into a meal. Buddha-nature is like a seed: the fundamental nature of all sentient being...
ReadThe Ten Kinds of Spiritual Freedom Possessed by the Buddhas
Let's look to the Avatamsaka Sūtra, the "Chapter on Inconceivable Dharma," in its thirty-third fascicle. Some of our fellow practitioners are currently reciting the Avatamsaka Sūtra, and in this passage we learn that the Buddhas, the Wor...
ReadFor the vast majority of people, the heaviest thought is the thought of sexual desire
Only when you have a deep, abiding awareness of this body’s impurity—when you turn that awareness to yourself, and to all men and women, seeing that every one of us is exactly the same—can genuine revulsion and weariness well up from wit...
ReadProf. Lin Chong-an: Essentials of Śamatha and Vipaśyanā in the *Yogācārabhūmi·Śrāvakabhūmi*, Part 2 — The Four Types of Vipaśyanā (Insight)
(2) The Four Types of Vipaśyanā (Insight)
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