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Amitabha triad © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hearing Sounds Through the Eyes, by Jisu Sunim

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Sometimes people feel afraid because they don’t know what the teacher is talking about! `How we can face our own reality?’ But the teacher also has difficulty in getting the student’s discursive mind to understand what he is talking about. The best policy for the teacher, then, is to let practitioners continue with their practice, giving them time for some perspective to slowly come into focus. The most chronic disease for people who find it difficult to face reality is, indeed, this discursive mind…

Chinese Lion, Hanabusa Itchō (Japanese, 1652–1724), © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A moment of realisation, by Diana St Ruth

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A moment of realisation about the way we operate in the world can open doors in our mind for the light to come in and bring insight. It may cause us to cringe a bit when we reflect on how we’ve been in the past, a very uncomfortable feeling. On the other hand…

Spring time.

The Illusion of Attainment, by Kusan Sunim

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In the course of one’s practice it is as though one has to take hold of the hua-t’ou [Koan] two or three times anew. At the stage of emptiness when nothing at all appears, one clings to the emptiness. Like­wise, at the stage of vivid quiescence and the emergence of the brilliant spiritual light, one clings to this brilliant light…

Pensive Bodhisattva with Lotus Crown © NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Pensive Bodhisattva

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The origin of Buddha statues of this style is the figure of Prince Siddhartha in contemplation pondering the four phases of life (birth, old age, sickness, and death). Established first in India, the Pensive Bodhisattva was made in countless numbers in China but not till it came to Korea…

Cover of Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

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With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean…

Dainichi Nyorai (Mahavairocana)

False Thought, by Ch’an Master Lai-kuo

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The strength of false thought is great, so you ought to be afraid of it. And it is necessary that you get away from it. You want to get away from your false thought, but how much strength do you have? Its strength is waterproof; your strength only amounts to a single drop…