The Way of Liberation – A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is a free ebook from Adyashantis website. I am very happy to be able to post the words of Adyashanti here on the site for the first time. I know from experience that his words can have a huge impact. From the intro: Many […]
]]>Zen – A Cognition to the Mind by Pho Nguyet is a guide to the practice of Sudden Enlightened Zen and the steps that will lead there. This is also recognized as the “Purification of Mind”. This is explained in the foreword by Bhikku Bodhi: “Purification of mind as understood in the Buddha’s teaching is the sustained endeavor to cleanse [...]
]]>A Day in the Life of a Zen Monk – EmptyMind Films – YouTube.
]]>After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:There is only one teaching, that is, the One VehicleIn the Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters.There is not a second or third vehicleExcept when the Buddhas t...
]]>Chapter 2(All references are to the Senchu Murano translation)Buddha Shakyamuni then discourses at some length on the virtues and wisdom of the Buddhas, which are inconceivable to thought and indescribable in words. This confuses the devotees in ...
]]>After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:Therefore, individual beings create their own karma by their own acts, but if their karma is the same as other beings' karma, they will all fall into the sa...
]]>Chapter One(All citations refer to the Senchu Murano translation)This chapter introduces the sutra. In it, the Buddha remains silent, but demonstrates a supernatural feat that sets the assembly of gathered disciples astir with questions: "T...
]]>In the coming weeks, we will study and discuss the Lotus Sutra after our meetings for meditation. The Lotus Sutra gives the central, fundamental teaching of our school, Tendai. It is among the most popular Buddhist texts in the world, parti...
]]>After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:"Neither what comes into being nor what it comes into being from are based in anything, nor are they a basis for anything. Beings and the worlds they ...
]]>After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation: The Matrix of the Thus-Come One is itself the wondrous, enlightened, luminous understanding, which illuminates he entire Dharma-Realm. Within it...
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