Earlier this year, my family joined a YCL protest outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London, campaigning against the banning of the Communist Party of the
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Transcendent Work
Obviously not, as many times such a teacher must accept a simple life premised upon living in a state of voluntary poverty. In such an existence, it is cultural knowledge and the ability to ‘see’ what others cannot see that is the common currency.
Mozi: Benefitting Others
The sayings of Mozi (470-391 BC). Mozi advocated self-development, empirical observation, and universal love to all beings.
Great Master Xu Yun: On Essential Points of Ch’an Training
This delusion has stained the mind for a very long time, and is the basis and driving force of the continuous cycle of life and death. This why it is often not possible for delusion to be wiped-out immediately, and why the Ch’an training requires certain prerequisite (and supportive) practices to
Xu Yun’s Gatha (1959)
The created and the uncreated
Are like water and its waves.
Why I Remember Richard Hunn
‘Master Xu Yun, who has inspired, and continues to inspire many, entrusted Charles Luk to take the Ch’an Dharma into the West through the translation of Chinese texts. Master Xu Yun use to very carefully choose the people he entrusted with vital work, for all his compassion, he did not suffer fools (although he continuously forgave them), and used his wisdom to see into the future and understand the karmic effects of certain actions in the present. Master Xu Yun chose many different people for many varying tasks, but it was Charles Luk that he gave the very important task of translating Chinese texts into reliable English.’
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 