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Be Clear-minded When Dying
At the last moment of death, how can we return to a spiritual base and not be afraid of death? Dharma practice is the answer.
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Lecture at the Henan Buddhist College
The Buddha had already expounded that the purpose of Dharma practice is to be free from suffering and to obtain the ultimate happiness.
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Pandemic Prevention through Contemplation
I hope that we could cherish our role as monastics. Think, we haven’t had the chance to propagate Dharma nor have we cultivated our practice properly. I hope that you could be mindful at all times.
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NEPL – Live with faith, aspiration, and abilities (II)
The senior students of the NEPL led and encouraged the new participants to embrace Dharma by starting with the six fundamental principles.
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The Luminosity of the Mind
The 19th anniversary of the Museum of World Religions
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Birth A Reminder of Death
With birth, there comes death. Birth is an alert of death. It is a calling for diligent practice. Other celebrations for birthday are insignificant.
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The Peace of Folding Palms
As a matter of fact, folding palms is a way to stabilize our monkey mind so it returns to purity and stabilization. With a simple gesture like this, we start from ourselves to offer peace and stability to others.
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Light Up Our Mind and the World
What is the primary purpose of Dharma practice? It is to be free from cyclic existence.
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Compassion and Chan
Some wondered: What are the Ling Jiou Mountain’s spirit and essence?
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Moonlight on the Lake
What is the "present"? It is the state free from conceptual activity. Should you think and fabricate anything, it is unreal and imaginary.
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The Principle of Changes
Everything that's happening outside has nothing to do with our nature of mind.
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My Initial Aspiration
The idea of the Water, Land, Air Dharma Assembly emerged. It is a grand puja for the liberation of ghost beings. It went from a small puja to the annual assembly at the Taoyuan Arena.
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Year of Rat - Suchness without Delusions
The Lunar New Year Eve. Together, all the disciples gathered in the Hall of the Patriarchs and offered incense. We prayed to the lineage masters for the blessing so we can travel the path steadily.
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Chan Practice to Primordial Awareness
We held a three-day meditation program at the Chientan Youth Activity Center in Taipei.
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Starting from Good Connections
Learn the loving-kindness of Buddha cultivates our wisdom and compassion. Which our wisdom and compassion grow.
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2019 NYE - Practice Moment by Moment
February 4th, 2019 was the Lunar New Years Eve of Pig. Monastic and lay sanghas gathered at Ling Jiou Mountain to celebrate. By welcoming a new year, we can’t stop to work hard on our practice.
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Food Offering Ritual in New York
We held a Food Offering Ritual at Ling Jiou Mountain’s U. S. Head Center in Manhattan, New York. This office will focus on the development of the University for Life and Peace and the promotion on Peace Meditation.
Chan Practice
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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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2021 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – Realizing with the Mind
Spring Term Monastic Retreat –with Chan practice, we can realize our mind or our original face.
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2021 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – The Awakening Bodhicitta
As long as we exert in practicing Chan and observe precepts vigilantly, we can return to our origin through Chan.
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2021 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – The Original Face of Awareness
Chan practice is all about returning to our original face.
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The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Keep in mind that every being possesses the treasury of the true Dharma eye.
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See the Mind in Sitting Meditation
Sitting meditation is to see our minds. It isn't about entering any specific samadhi as there are no samadhis to enter.
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A Restful Mind through Chan Practice
In recent years, I’ve been trying to share the bliss of Chan practice to as many as possible worldwide.
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Chan Practice for a Peaceful Mind
Chan practice is a way to guide our way home. For too long, our minds wander around because of greed.
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The Mind Transmission
The spirit and essence of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) is none other than “Chan”
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Stay Happy
How can we maintain a positive attitude in a busy life? Well, there's an excellent method, which is Chan practice.
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Tea Chan Q & A (II)
Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) is accentuated with our essence and spirit. “Compassion” is the attitude that we offer to all beings. “Chan” is the original taste of all. If we could return to the point of origin, we can get an original taste of life.
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The Luminosity of the Mind
ThroughChan practice, we can return to our essence of luminous awareness. Call it the beautiful place of origin if you like, it is none other than our original face.
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The Face of Chan
Settle down our afflictions through Chan practice. Learn to let go of the compounded and fabricated thinking process.
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Summer Term Monastic Retreat – Abiding in the Original Face
Ten-day of Summer Term Monastic Retreat was concluded on June 17th, 2020.
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Summer Term Monastic Retreat – Putting Afflictions to Rest
From June 7th – 17th, 2020, monastic members of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) entered a ten-day retreat at the beginning of summer.
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Spring Term Monastic Retreat – Uncovering Awareness through Peace Meditation
We are endowed with human life, awareness, and the opportunity for Chan practice, we're very fortunate.
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2020 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – Ending the Epidemic with Chan Practice
Chan practice leads us to a stable spirituality. It is free from phenomena and compounds. By returning to the state of spirituality, we can fully experience it. In the perception of emptiness and clarity, we'd find the stability of life.
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2020 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – Rediscovering Spirituality & Innate Love
Let us return to simplicity, the nature of spirituality. We can do this by sitting meditation. Retrieve our spiritual navigation so we can take lead in our own lives instead of being steered away by the materialistic world.
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2020 Spring Term Monastic Retreat – Real Sitting, Mind Settling
Monastic members of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) entered the annual spring term monastic retreat.
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3-Day Meditation in Yangzhou – Chan for Realization, Luminous as the Sun
We held a three-day Peace Meditation at the Jianzhen Library in Yanzhou, China. Yangzhou is the hometown of the great Master Jianzhen (Ganjin in Japanese) and Hsing Yun.
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2019 Fall Term Retreat – Gateway to Dzogchen
From September 2nd – 11th, 2019, monastic sanghas of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) entered the Fall Term retreat, a ten-day course of diligence. The Four-step Technique of LJM’s Peace Meditation is our primary Chan practice.
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Resonance for Loving Earth
We’re here for the annual Peace Meditation of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) which gathers over a thousand of people every time.
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European Chan Program - Sculpting a Buddha with Nothingness
We traveled to Reichersberg in Austria for another 7-day Chan practice.
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European Chan Program – Freeing Spirituality
Chan practice in Europe. Our first stop is to hold a 3-day Chan in Berghof, Germany. On the first day, we were touched by the first spring snow. It signified auspiciousness for our European program.
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Spring Term Retreat - My Spiritual Journey (2)
Transform our mindstream with purity. “Our true nature is emptiness”. Habituate ourselves with this in mind. Look at our true nature without any ideas or clinging.
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2018 World Meditation Congress - Q & A
We attended the 5th World Meditation Congress (DMZ 세계평화명상대전) in Gangwon-do by the invitation of the Ven. Master Gaksan, Director of Chambulseonwon (참불선원).
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Realizing Primordial Awareness
Chan practice in order to familiarize the practice of prajna wisdom. Our contemplative awareness will enhance the power of prajna wisdom.
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Concentration and Clarity – Entering the Pure Land of Emptiness
We will be holding the next Chan practice retreat at Benediktushof, Germany.