Thank you, Joe for placing me in your heart. jm
On 6/13/2012 9:27 PM, Joe wrote:
JM,
You would have liked practicing with my shifu, Sheng Yen. His physical
practices helped us all, very much. I practice them and teach them to
this day, and have dome so since 1980. His way is truly compassionate,
and exceptionally wise. I have seen so many students awaken under his
care. He is gone, now, but he has many disciples who embody his ways.
I hope you meet them! Some are monastics, some are lay teachers.
What you write, about stars at night, is especially poignant to me,
because I am an Astronomer, and because I am Sheng Yen's disciple #13
in the West. Lucky me. ;-) Seriously, his physical practices are an
amazing aid to all practitioners. I teach them to whoever can use
them. But that was my arrangement with Shih-fu: we had to promise to
pass them on, if he was to teach them to us, and to teach us how to
teach. I promised. He trusted me. Long time, now. Still going
pretty strong.
Purification is so important, and allows everything that follows.
Almost no one knows about purification!
And so, we teach.
--Joe
> JMJM <chan.jmjm@...> wrote:
> When we notice that every cell in our body shines, like stars at
night, then we have purified our body.
