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Able to Learn Zen is a blessing. Start to Apply Zen's teaching in daily life is double of the blessing. The teaching seems so direct and simple. But yet to be able…
Every difficult situation always leads you to a single thought that you cannot go beyond. "I can't do this." "There is not enough time." "He is so controlling." "I have to ....." " I can't..... " "I should..... shouldn't......" "It's impossible to ...." "I don't care....." "Why can't he understand?" "People are just lazy.".... Whatever the thought is, it is like a gate keeper. No matter what you try, you will always come…
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Master Ling Shun visits Master Gue-Zhun and ask him:
"What is the Buddha?"
"If I tell you, would you believe it?"
"How can I not trust master's words?"
"You are the Buddha!"
"How can I maintain this?"
"Once…
The way we see is the way we go blind.
Seeing always involves some evaluation, and any evaluation one makes can never be one hundred percent accurate and it always changes with time. The perfect evaluation, if there is such thing, is to make no evaluation, to have no opinion other than accepting the way things manifest right now. This is not yet the truth but at least the best approximation our ego can manage. To let go the…
Everyone is looking for happiness. But do we really know what is happiness and/or how to find it? The new book, just use this mind, written by Zen Master Miao Tsan has a sounding explanation for it. "The most important issue today is the over-emphasis of materialistic pursuits. The thought that brings…
