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Mindfulness teachers: who do you follow?


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I really like Thich Naht Hanh. His teachings on peace, mindfulness and loving kindness are very profound. His books are plainly, yet beautifully written and they've helped me so much. They are books one can read over and over and never get tired of it. ?

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Hi, I like Ajhan Brahm alot as he is very down to earth and talks a lot of wisdom, he is a teaching monk in Australia.

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@waihong Could you recommend a Chan Buddhism practice you found particularly useful. I googled and read the wikipedia article but I doubt that gives me the idea of Chang Buddism that I am looking for.

The two words "seem easy" have so much room for interpretation we could start a whole new forum thread around them. :-D

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@Tine Below are some reference on Chan practices:

A simple introduction - https://www.ddmbachicago.org/chan/zen/

The methods:

 - https://www.ddmbachicago.org/chan/methods/silentillumination/
 - https://www.ddmbachicago.org/chan/methods/hua-tou/


Personally my practice is more towards the Silent Illumination these days. The second method can be quite explosive and hence would be more appropriate during a retreat. However I did benefited from casual self-reflecting incidents that draw similarities to Hua Tou, literally "the head of the word or word head", which means "the mind before the thought".


Interesting sessions below:

Silent Illumination Introduction - by Dr. Simon Child, a Chan Teacher and Dharma Heir of Master Sheng Yen
 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHp385ZUCsg

 

Dharma Talk by Ven. Guo Yuan - Silent Illumination and Huatou, skipped to 56 mins
https://youtu.be/ZbW8pLGXHFc?t=3404

 

On 9/16/2020 at 9:37 PM, Tine said:

The two words "seem easy" have so much room for interpretation we could start a whole new forum thread around them. :-D

Ha..ha.. FULLY agree! The easy ones are the toughest ones to explain.. It was said Chan is not established on words, yet had the most words to explain it; only the traveler knows the journey.

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