The Online School of Ch'an. (Zen)

12/24/2025

Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to Feeding America, a nonprofit network of 200 food banks combating hunger in the United States.

“We are incredibly grateful for Taylor Swift‘s $1 million gift to Feeding America,” Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot wrote in a statement. “This holiday season, her continued support is a powerful reminder of what’s possible when we unite to end hunger. When we join together alongside people facing hunger, we can make sure families have a full table this holiday season and beyond.”

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-donates-1-million-to-feeding-america-1236616635/

11/29/2025

11/27/2025

11/27/2025

"Mindful ?' see the gross contents of your mind entertaining along. Thoughts arise, two kinds. 1, Thoughts you Prompt. 2, The word/s and thoughts that arise unprompted..Then, there is a mix of both seen as you are dropping off to sleep or, when waking up, the mixed kind is seen. Just see thoughts and let them roll along and along. Focus seeing thru your closed eye lids..keep it there. Aware of breathing keeping mind clear and sustaining the clarity without clinging to the ''idea.'' See thee "Discriminating" mind at work too. This'ing and that'ing aand claiming and blaming..quite a list here actually. Chan-Sitting - a wordless description of the silent sound.

06/22/2025

Awake viewed in ten strokes.

06/22/2025

"Civil conversation. 😄. '' The Panca Sila - ten precepts begin with 1 to 5 covering criminality. I long gave up killing, stealing abusing, lying, substance dealing-using. I never even started there. 6 to 10 cover Civil conduct voila ! civil conversation ! and I just love the common good sense of the 6 to 10 precepts.. Avoid gossip, narcisism, holding back advice, reigning in anger- jealousies, and bad habit 'dispraising' speech as these, 6 to 10 could be forerunning the 1 to 5 precepts !! 😲. Namo Amitabha Buddha...

06/22/2025

Revised edition :- Awaken to :- Firstly, Misviews (( miccadhitti )), non-clinical delusions, delusive attitudes, 'wrong view, ''*gross discriminative thinking'' and resultant *karmic productions. All fodder to consider upon nay to reflect at calmer times. Secondly ..Illusion "A dewdrop, a cloud .. so the cant goes regarding illusion in the Zen / Chan approaches. The Illusion ; to recognize, re cognize, seen and seen is quite scary. Imagine say, being under a huge illusion and that illusion being what it is, " an inaccurate perception upon an external stimulus'' in the lexicon. But in the spiritual life, in the daunting probes' path to the relief from suffering the illusion clouds our dewy view. Misviews managed then onto the whole coating of 'illusion' matters again coating the Whole view aside from misviews- particular. This is quite scary. Consider this. 🙏 .Ji An. 籍安

06/20/2025

Ten Precepts. The first Five appear to check criminality.. Lot of 'heavy business wrapped in these five. That makes it easy for me. The next lines, 6 to ten appear to cover Civil conduct. 6, not to gossip of others faults. (( fault finding reveals a faulty mine at work.) 7, not to indulge in self praise. 8, not to hold back upon appropriate advice to a poor soul. 9, To restrain and avoid anger and jealousy.. 10. not to speak in dispraise. My favourite precepts !! be mindly aware.

06/19/2025

06/18/2025

Greetings every one.. I am back...Any questions ? any doubts or drawback feelings ? Trust issues ? Encounters with false wannabes ? Strictly I avow to ever forever to Practice meditations to proper ends. The practice will not make perfect until you have a hold on proper Understanding of WHERE to focus mind upon then Perfect practice will lead you to perfection... Facing the wall, mindful- of- breathing, metta bahavana Ok OK Ok.. Do you say F E E L you're getting somewhere ? or still in the agony trap ? After all when asked the Buddha replied ""Suffering I teach and The Way out of suffering'' the Main Point Here ! Not sticking or gripping n' grasping fancy words / sutras, more sutras and overdoses on sutras !! or even worse parade about, with attitude and ostentatiousness, unqualified, in fancy garbs to the endless rounds of self deception. Can you tell me the answer to this question :- ""WHAT is the nature of the mind ?""
Sincerely, yours in less than glad rags, a servant & guardian.. Thank-you.. JI AN 籍安 (( Order pertaining to Hsu Yun and Linchi.))

05/25/2024

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