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Cultivation of Awakening
Everyone must clearly understand that at every point of contact we should maintain a contemplative awareness that is luminous and unobscured, rather than being rolled about within ignorance and growing ignorance.
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Awareness in Everyday Life
Awakening is not confined to any particular place. It is not the case that realization can occur only within the meditation hall; every place affords the possibility of awareness.
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Living Chan on the Bodhisattva Path
What, then, do non-abidance and non-attainment mean? Non-abidance means not clinging or remaining attached. “Abiding” means lingering or dwelling.
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Samadhi in Daily Life
What we engage in is called “the way of the bodhisattva,” which means consistently carrying through one’s principles of practice.
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Anchoring Oneself in Purity Through the Discipline of Daily Practice
Daily practice is like a rope that binds the mind of an ordinary being, enclosing it within a disciplined boundary so that the mind can rest in integrity and ease.
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Contemplate the Mind and Rest in Its Natural Ease
We continually generate excessive ideas and attachments that bind our minds. Drawn along by these thoughts and attachments, we become as unfree as an ox led by a ring through its nose.