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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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.
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2025 Spring Term Monastic Retreat—Phenomena Arising from Primordial Awareness, Boundless Compassion for All
To further explain this third level, it is the "original face" that has always been unchanging, even before our parents brought us into this world. This original state is what we must uncover.
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2025 Spring Term Monastic Retreat—Contemplative Awareness on Emptiness to Embrace Complete Ease
We often speak of letting go, but ignorance strengthens our attachments. That is why Buddhism teaches the solution of realizing the buddha-nature within every being.
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2025 Spring Term Monastic Retreat—Uncovering the Unchanging Primordial Awareness through Contemplation
Starting from February 17, 2025, LJM commenced the annual Spring Term Monastic Retreat. This year, we welcome returning students from Germany and Austria. Their journey from such distant lands is truly precious and commendable.
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The Four Steps of Chan Practice
Among the four steps of the Chan meditation that is also referred to as peace meditation, the first one is to deeply breathe in and out from the point under our navel (Jap. hara, Chin. dantian).
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Pith Instruction to Become Wealthy
Why do we feel deprived? Because the mind is.
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Gazing at the Wall
Student：Beginners in Chan practice seems to be quite agitated. How do we practice non-abidance, so that such a mind comes forth?
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Not Fixating on Notions
We need to apply hearing, contemplating, and practicing Dharma during peaceful meditation. Wherever we are, we'd be at ease.
