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While we approach the end of 2010, many thanks to you all who visit the site/blog and/or provide valuable comments/suggestions. We value and enjoy your visits. Please join us again the coming new year. We would like to share a Zen story taught…

Someone asked Elder Zhao-Zhou (Joshu) how he practiced, and he said "For thirty years my mind remains undistracted, except perhaps when eating and putting on robes. Most people dwell on what they know, I alone remain in the not-knowing." I find the idea of being un-distracted really intriguing. Some distractions are obvious, we become fidgety and chatty in social situations. Less…

  Student: Master, you mentioned about opening your mind in order to open the realm.  How do we open our mind?" Master: The understanding…

Student: What is the right way to uplift myself? Master: First, set the right goal.  Second, you need motivation.…

Soldiers guarding the border at the order of an ignorant emperor, Holding their ground with determination and bloodshed; Guns ring and the sound of thunderous explosions filling the sky, Killing one another, not recognizing that all belonged to the same clan.