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By Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD Knowing emptiness, deluded vision is purified;Contemplating loving kindness, behaviour is perfected,Understanding the unity of multiplicity is meditation;And the ultimate goal is
Around August 1953, Ch’an Master Xu Yun (1840-1959) attended a meeting in Beijing of hundreds of representatives of the various Buddhist groups from around China
The sensing of external stimuli from the material world enters the body through the senses-organs. The body often responds with involuntary or unconscious bio-chemical processes
This operation was a disaster for the CIA which tried to cover its tracks by fabricating a counter-narrative which omitted its own presence in Tibet, and packaged the uprising it had concocted as a ‘freedom movement’ entirely formulated by Tibetans. This was followed by fictitious Hollywood films and a number of ‘Free Tibet’ movements all funded by the US government. The US has also manufactured a refugee crisis in Asia whereby Tibetans are ‘paid’ to congregate in various places, claiming persecution, etc. The reality is that modern Tibet is a thriving part of modern China that has no association with the corrupt and backward Tibet that was once ruled by the 14th Dalai Lama. Tibetan people are modern, well educated, and pursuing fulfilling lives. These modern people view movements such as the Pro-Tibetan Movement as being Eurocentric and racist in nature, with nothing to do with the reality of life in Tibet which booming under the auspices of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
From 1931 to 1945, Master Xu Yun witnessed the barbaric behaviour of invading Japanese troops in China, and he associated this barbarism with Japan’s abandonment of the Vinaya Discipline.
What must not be forgotten is that Xu Yun’s biography is not just a ‘dry’ text of historical information, but also records and transmits the genuine Ch’an Dharma to all of humanity. I call on all beings to read this completed (2005) edition, and record and report any errors that might become apparent. If we all do this, then eventually Xu Yun’s biography will become a near perfect text, like the classic books of the past, only relevant for the modern age – Ch’an Master Jing Hui