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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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To Sit, To Listen: The Mind in Meditation
If sitting meditation is confined to the body, revolving endlessly within bodily concerns, it is a waste of time. We must apply ourselves to the mind, rather than attaching to the body.
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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.