Jue Miao Miao-Ming Shixiong’s Sharing *
What I’d like to do tonight is share with you a different perspective. Shifu’s teaching shows us a very wonderful path to get to find the light inside ourselves. But sometimes it’s not clear to us which way to go; sometimes we run into obstacles along the way, and sometimes just having a different perspective, a different way to look at things, can help us along this path.
十月份在中国探亲时，我买了一本藏传佛教宁玛派大堪布希阿荣博写的书，名字是《次第花开》。书里面最打动我的，是希阿荣博对他的上师法王如意宝的感情。看到这些内容，就想到我们的师父妙天禅师。我虽然只见过师父一次，但通过禅修，对师父的佛的证量和慈悲，感触越来越深。自己能跟着师父修印心禅法，机会稀有难得，只有深深感恩！
Sometimes the teaching seems
contradictory and impossible to achieve.
We ask you to relax mind… then to
focus, then to empty mind
A very common area of frustration is how can it be possible to focus on something and empty the mind at the same time, are these not completely opposite actions?
We are taught and rewarded most of our lives for acquiring a mental catalog of things we “know”.
That’s how we pass exams in school, (we know the required material) get promoted at work (we know how to successfully plan, organize, direct, control or perform based on past experience) and interact in relationships (we repeat patterns of meeting people, deepening connections, etc…)
Written by Sister Yang
Translated by Peter
I didn’t know what I’ve done in my previous life to deserve this karmic reward. After leaving Taiwan for Fuzhou with my husband eight years ago, I have not seen Shifu for more than ten years, but this summer, when I visited Shanghai with my kids, I learned that Shifu had decided to deliver a lecture here on 7/24 and 7/25. In order to welcome Shifu, I decided to delay my trip back to Taiwan.
Within each of us is a light…
My first introduction to sitting Ch’an was from a martial arts teacher that incorporated seated postures and belly breathing as essential aspects of the practice. He also advocated we develop an appreciation of the mind and spirit, not just body..This was a spark that led me to study classics of sun zu, go rin no sho, lao tsu, chung tsu, kong zi, etc…and from there eventually into Buddhist doctrine and sutra study.
Brother Juemiao Miaoming is the recipient of Buddha Heart Imprint. Now we have someone to lean on.
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