The barbarism of the imperial Japanese in China is well-known – but what is not so well known is Master Xu Yun’s use of meditation to fight them.
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Was the Sixth Patriarch of Ch’an of Hakka Ethnicity?
Hakka religious culture often involves the integration of the practice of Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. There is a practical engagement with the outer world, whilst the facilities exist within Hakka spiritual culture that allows for the inner development of the mind.
Master Xu Yun: On the Relationship Between Ch’an & Pure Land Buddhism
Then Mahakasyapa transmitted to him the Tathagata’s Mind Seal, making him the second Indian Patriarch. The transmission was handed down to following generations, and after the Patriarchs Asvaghosa and Nagarjuna, Chan Master Hui-wen of Tian-tai Mountain in the Bei-qi Dynasty (550-78) after reading (Nagarjuna’s) Madhyamika Shastra, succeeded in realizing his own mind and founded the Tian-tai School.269 At the time, our Chan Sect was very flourishing.
Hui Neng – Sixth Patriarch of Ch’an
Within Ch’an, what else is required?
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 