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Practice
is Becoming One with Buddha |
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| What is most important in our
study and practice of Buddhism is letting our heart/mind become
one with the Buddha. This means letting it become pure and free
from troubles. |
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Learning
Prajna Wisdom that Transcends all Forms |
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| As long as we have not yet studied
Buddhism, we are not clear about the essence of life. Following
our own desires, whims and habits, we get lost in the Karma
that we have created ourselves. |
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Honoring
the Dharma, the Teacher, and the Practice |
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| When we learn Buddhism, we first
have to get clear ideas. Once our ideas and ways of thinking
are clear, our views will be right. When everything is unclear,
we produce a lot of problems that are caused by our delusions. |
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The goose
in the bottle |
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| There was once a Chan Master who
asked his disciple: “A live goose was raised in a bottle ever
since it was a gosling. Without breaking the bottle, how can
you get the goose out of the bottle?” |
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Breathing
Chan |
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| Among the four steps of the Chan
method used at our Ling Jiou Mountain monastery, every single
step has its own approach and benefit. The first two, as described
earlier. |
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The Sound
of One Hand |
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| The fourth step is the most important
one – Listening to silence, or listening to the sound of no
sound. This is also called “listening to the sound of One Hand.”
What is the sound of One Hand? There is a Chan story that can
give you a hint about this. |
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Changing
the way we look at things |
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| In this age of information explosion
we are amassing a lot of knowledge, thinking that all these
things that we see, hear and learn about are real. But truly,
this kind of knowledge is illusory. |
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