The created and the uncreated
Are like water and its waves.
Tag: enlightenment
2003: China Government Officials Visit the Most Venerable Yi Cheng
Such is the respect within which he is held by the Communist government of China that he remains sitting whilst government officials stand in his presence.
Xu Yun’s Enlightenment Gatha
Ch’an Master Xu Yun attained to a major breakthrough in his self-cultivation during his 56th year of life (1895-96), whilst staying at the Gaomin Monastery
Shaolin ‘Meditation Hall’ Opened to the Public – First Time in 1500 Years
Original Chinese Language Article: By Liu Lin (刘林) Photograph: By Peng Hua Ming (彭华明) Source: Beijing Entertainment News (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Yesterday, (8.4.08),
Was the Dao De Jing a Confucian Text?
The Zhouyi (i.e. Yijing) is demonstrably far older than the Dao De Jing, and it is an interesting consideration that the author(s) of the latter may well have been copying the organisation structure of the former, as a means to ensure political and social legitimacy for their text.
The Dhammapada and the Uncreate
The Pali word ‘akata’ translates as ‘uncreate’, and this has been translated into the Chinese language through the use of the Daoist term ‘Wu Wei’ (無為). This is important in implication for the Ch’an idiom ‘language of the uncreate’., as it means that Ch’an doctrine is not only securely rooted in Buddhist scripture, but rooted in the earliest strata of that scripture.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 