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The Light
of our Awakened Nature |
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| This physical body of ours exists,
and is at the same time empty (of self-existing substance).
As the Heart Sutra says: “Form is precisely emptiness, emptiness
precisely form. Form is no other than emptiness |
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Who is
in pain? |
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| The most important thing during
meditation, whether seated or walking, is concentration. During
walking meditation, be aware of each movement of your feet.
In this way, you will feel that you will start becoming familiar
with yourself, |
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Entering
the Gate of Emptiness |
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| Why do we practice Chan? The practice
of Chan is like a bridge that connects us with our essential
nature, which is totally empty. If we connect well and become
one with emptiness, we are liberated, free |
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Chan is Letting Go |
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| Our present life is tied to the world of form and thought, and therefore produces rebirth after rebirth in Samsara. If we want to return to the world of the spirit, we have to do the work of leaving behind form |
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Chan is Letting the Heart Come home |
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| The point of Chan practice is to let our heart return to its home. How do we do that? You have to let go of everything. It is only then that your heart can come home. |
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A Life of Total Liberation |
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| Life is constant change. Every new life is nothing but a chapter in the constant process in which we are born and die, over and over again. Death means that our present Karma has run its course. |
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Listening to the stillness inside and outside |
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| If we want to find our enlightened nature, that which is unborn and never dies, we have to start from seeing through the things in our outside environment. |
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