Last time I answered a lay follower’s question about why family and relatives have to endure resentments. He asked, “I...
On the day of the refuges, the incense in the meditation hall lingered in the air. The ritual instruments emitted...
The Chinese designation Tianlong Babu (天龍八部) in Buddhist texts, literally, Heavenly Dragons in Eight Divisions, refers to a group of...
Once poet Chen Zi’ang of the Tang dynasty in Youzhou of northern China stood on the gold platform built by...
The Zen master Muso Soseki once took a boat to cross a river. Shortly after the boat left the bank,...
What is the true meaning of life? Why are people born into the world? And why does one have to...
During the Song Dynasty, Zen Master Zhinan wrote a poem about dwelling in the mountain, describing his transcendent state of...
Those who practise Chan meditation may reach an advanced stage of cultivation where indiscriminate wisdom is subject to neither speech...