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If you ask a child what he/she likes to be when he/she grows up. The answer varies. If you ask Zen practitioners what they like to be. All answers point to the same one: become an enlighten being and reach immortality. How to reach it with a right understanding?…

Student: Master, on a very down to the earth level, we create phenomena by decisions we make.  Is that correct?  For example, we are making a decision to…

The new book, "just use this mind", written by Rev. Master Miao Tsan (Jian Liao) will be available in October 2010. Starting from August, 2010, due to the popular demand, major key notes of the new book will be posted in the blog. You are very welcome to…

When you are feeling down, it is your magnificent true Self that accepts the mood, just like a wealthy person temporarily feeling poor. We are free by nature but we choose to accept thoughts that limit us. In this moment, you are limiting yourself in certain ways through some ideas that you hold near and dear to your heart. You forget that there is a different choice. Let us practice remembering this fact again and again…

A thought appears and disappears in an instant, as is true of everything. If you think everything is good right now, it is because everything is good at this moment. However, with each new moment you must continue to generate good thoughts. A better life begins…