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Fall Term Monastic Retreat: The Original Mind Free from Conceptual Fabrication
The mind is formless, vividly awakened, and dynamically enlivened. It requires no fabrication whatsoever; its clarity and lucidity manifest naturally, just as they are.
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Chan Practice Q&A: A Leaf Untouched
Our lives are often dominated by attachment; whatever we do, we tend to become attached. The most important thing is to learn how to free ourselves from attachment.
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2026 Spring Term Monastic Retreat: The Mind Abides in Notionlessness, and Mental Activity is in Accord with Essencelessness
On March 11, 2026, our Spring Term Monastic Retreat had already completed its first week successfully.
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Sitting Meditation: The Silence Where Afflictions Cease
During Chan practice, meditating on primordial awareness engenders a sense of stability. This is because primordial awareness is not something newly acquired, but rather what has been inherently within each of us.
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Sitting Meditation as a Return to the Mind
Why, then, is the mind unchanging and of infinite life? Because all notions characterized by form are subject to decline, whereas the mind, being without notions, is not subject to decline.
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Listening to the Silence of the Primordial Awareness
In Chan practice, the mind must strive to remain free of attachment and entanglement. Should these arise, we should contemplate emptiness: all things arise when causes and conditions converge, and cease in the same manner.