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Student:  How do I deal with wandering thoughts during the meditation? Master:  When we are practicing…

People tend to assume that spirituality and the mundane life are separate, but this is not so. Spirituality and the mundane are of one mind. We use the same mind whether we engage in spiritual…

One day Master asked the abbot, "How you understand the saying 'Missed by a hair-width, separated like Heaven and Earth'?" The abbot said, "Missed by a hair-width, separated like Heaven and Earth." Master: "How can you attain enlightenment with this kind of understanding?" Abbot: "Then how do you Master understand it?" Master: "Missed by a hair-width, separated like Heaven and Earth." Abbot makes a bow. ¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶…

I was amazed when I heard the phrase long time ago. Today still is from Zen Master Miao Tsan's teaching... "There is a Zen saying that 'the answer is in the question.' The answer will present itself when there is a true understanding of the root of the question.…

Master gave an intriguing lecture today, which I will try to summarize. We are always getting into never-ending fights with the people close to us, because we keep trying to defend ourselves or fight…