Hi Ed,
Valid comment. Sorry that I sound like an old hippie parrot.
Chan is all about doing and not talking. After all, it was "without
words and outside of religion." My Teacher teaches Four simple
practices....
1. Purity - purity of body and mind. Meaning meditate. Chan
meditation detoxes our body and rid off dirty chi, tune up our
internal organs and their interaction, de-stresses and energizes.
As we focus on our chakras, we detox our habitual thinking mind,
enhances "total" awareness, not mental awareness.
2. Wisdom - as we are purified through Chan meditation, we
gradually learn to detach from all forms in our daily life. All
forms includes events, opinions, logic, theories, people, etc.
Our heart begins to shine through. Compassion rises. Notion of
self drops away. Four Noble Truth and Twelve Causality could be
witness. Reaching Nirvana, or end of our own sufferings. (Do
ignore any Buddhist labels, if you prefer.)
3. Perfection - we learn to harmonize the world, using other people's
values and dictionaries to solve their issues and not imposing our
own. This is the Bodhisattva practice of Six Perfection. We will
then realize at the end of day, it is us who benefits also. This
is the stage of growing our lotus from mud. Buddhist call this
stage accumulation of merits, or just living Chan.
4. Enlightenment - We are then on our way to reach Buddhahood through
our willful efforts in ferry all sentient beings by
physiologically bear their karma and process away.
Now back to #1. Our body is an illusion. It is composed of about 6
billion cells, each a living being. We begin this journey, by ferrying
all our body cells to Buddhaland first, before we are able to help
others. Therefore Chan meditation begins by humbling our ego, our
physical body and meditate with the intention of helping every body
cells. Meditate not for "our" health, not for "our" wisdom, not for
"our" gain.
Let me know if any of this is not clear to you.
Thank you for granting me this opportunity to share.
JMJM
Head Teacher
Order of Chan
Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can
http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com
http://www.heartchan.org
On 2/25/2011 8:14 AM, ED wrote:
JMJM,
We have all heard these sorts of statements over and over and over again.
So, what do you recommend we do (other than do more zazen) to get the
message to really stick?
~ED
--- In [email protected], Jue Miao Jing Ming wrote:
>
> True. Thank you for your reminder, Mel.
>
> "Dharma is in every moment in life. Buddhahood is accomplished
in everyday life."
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