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Rediscovering the Light of Our Heart |
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| Our heart is originally the true
form without form, but it starts springing into action and taking
on forms in following the whims of outside things and human
emotions. Reacting to the happenings |
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Our Heart is like the Bright Moon |
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| Looking at the bright moon at
night always evokes deep feelings in us – its soft and quiet
inner quality together with its bright, pure and shining light.
The fact that we try to describe the moon in so many ways tells
us about the special feelings |
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Chan as grounding for a peaceful life |
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| Our lives in this contemporary world are filled with all kinds of explosive information, which assail our emotions as soon as we put on our TVs or computers, or read the newspapers. |
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A Chan life of simplicity |
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| Chan is not something mysterious or complicated; it is a simple and unencumbered life. The simpler our life is, the more we will experience the joy of sheer simplicity. Chan is a life of truth, goodness and beauty. |
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Treasury of the Eye of True Dharma |
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| Chan finds its origin in the Buddha’s lifting up of a golden Lotus flower on Vulture Peak without saying a word. The great assembly that was eagerly awaiting his sermon could not understand the meaning of the Buddha’s lifting up of the flower. |
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A Truly Happy Life |
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| Chan is learning to practice wisdom. What we call “Chan (Zen)” means not to be confused about cause and effect, to know the cause and to know the effect, and to know them in our own life. |
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Finding Your Own Heart |
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| Every one of us is originally endowed with a perfect spiritual nature, but regrettably we have covered it up through our grasping for things in the world of phenomena. Covering up our spirit, we cover up our heart. |
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