The Essentials of Chan Practice

Originally appeared December 2013

The purpose of investigating Chan is to illuminate the Mind and see your self-nature. You must eradicate the mind’s impurities so as to personally perceive the true face of your self-nature.

It probably doesn’t get much more essential than this piece elucidating the path of Zen practice. We all are cultivating the mind that seeks the Way and can easily accept that “Sentient beings are replete with the wisdom and virtue of buddhas; they are not two and not separated from one another.”

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