Chan
What is Chan?
Chan is our very mind,
Chan practice is rediscovering ourself, bring the mind back home.
The Peace Meditation of
Master Hsin Tao
Peace Meditation is based on Master Hsin Tao’s Chan practice for years,
Based on Guan Yin’s Method of Listening to Sound
Four steps of Peace Meditation
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Step.1Regulate your breath -
Step.2Calm your mind and contemplate -
Step.3Be aware of your breathing in and breathing out -
Step.4Listen to the silence
Come and experience
One Minute Peace Meditation
Play the Music
One Minute Peace Meditation
Play the Music
Chan is all-pervasive everywhere
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Chan Practice Q&A: A Leaf Untouched
Our lives are often dominated by attachment; whatever we do, we tend to become attached. The most important thing is to learn how to free ourselves from attachment.
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2026 Spring Term Monastic Retreat: The Mind Abides in Notionlessness, and Mental Activity is in Accord with Essencelessness
On March 11, 2026, our Spring Term Monastic Retreat had already completed its first week successfully.
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Sitting Meditation: The Silence Where Afflictions Cease
During Chan practice, meditating on primordial awareness engenders a sense of stability. This is because primordial awareness is not something newly acquired, but rather what has been inherently within each of us.
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Sitting Meditation as a Return to the Mind
Why, then, is the mind unchanging and of infinite life? Because all notions characterized by form are subject to decline, whereas the mind, being without notions, is not subject to decline.
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Listening to the Silence of the Primordial Awareness
In Chan practice, the mind must strive to remain free of attachment and entanglement. Should these arise, we should contemplate emptiness: all things arise when causes and conditions converge, and cease in the same manner.
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Chan Practice: Refine to Uncover the Awareness
Every one of us possesses an innate ability for learning, referred to as “awareness.” It is through this awareness that acquiring knowledge or even wisdom becomes possible. This awareness is inherently present in both sentient beings and Buddhas alike.
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2025 Spring Term Monastic Retreat—Luminosity and Emptiness, Manifesting the Trikaya
Padmasambhava taught extensively about the nature of the mind. One teaching points out that failing to realize this nature is a grave fault and great shame. It has always been present, yet we perceive it only as phenomena.
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2025 Spring Term Monastic Retreat—Selflessness of Primordial Awareness, Enacting Compassion Beyond Self-concern
Without contemplation, Dharma practice becomes impossible, leaving merely intellectual knowledge. However, knowledge itself is a conceptual mind that discriminates and attaches.
