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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.
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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).