Venerable Master Hua's Talks on Dharma : Volume Four by Hsuan Hua

Author:Hsuan Hua [Hua, Hsuan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buddhist Text Translation Society
Published: 2011-07-15T23:00:00+00:00

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Keep searching until “the mountains vanish and the

rivers disappear.” Then spontaneously, the good news

will arrive, and you will experience a state “beyond the

shadows of the willows and the vivid blossoms.”

The basic rule in Chan meditation is: “Let your eyes contemplate your nose; let your nose contemplate your mouth; let your mouth contemplate your mind.” This allows us to control the monkey of the mind and rein in the wild horse of our thoughts, so that they stop running outside seeking things. As we sit in the meditation hall, we may not stare left and right, because if we gaze all around, then our mind will wander outside, and we won’t be able to investigate Chan. Please pay heed to this point, everyone! The time in a meditation retreat is extremely valuable; you could say that there is not a second to lose. We must seize the time and investigate Chan, because only through this investigation can we attain wisdom.

Cultivators of the Way should not treat their skin-bag of a body as a treasure. Only people who are free of this idea can apply effort in cultivating the Way. If you treat your body as a precious thing, then you will become its slave and serve its whims all day long. Therefore, genuine cultivators treat the body as a “stinking bag of skin” and don’t prize it highly. Valuing the body is an obstacle to cultivation. We should merely “borrow the false to cultivate what is true,” and see it as just an expedient means.

The biggest taboo in the Chan Hall is sleeping during meditation.

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