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We gettin out samsara with this one 🔥🔥🗣️

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Is there any topic more important, more relevant to today's world than this? Compassion has the function of alleviating suffering. The gift of holding and facing suffering and let it go. Very powerful. Very grateful for this talk. 🙏

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🙏🙏🙏so very helpful in practice.

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Thank you so such an insightful talk!

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Damn. I didn’t know Guo Gu was a dragon. Spitting straight 🔥

Woah. I was expecting cringe but he has a beautiful voice. Rhythm is a bit off, but his chanting is perfect. If I could sound like that I’d be chanting all the time 😂 I need to move to Tally and get lessons from him. I’ll be his caddy or servant lol It’s only an hour and a half drive.

Illuminati is right there just remove the on

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I enhanced the audio this way: Additional Settings ⚙️>Stable volume> Off

Thank you for these amanzingly concise and pure teaching about Chan. I'm coming back

It's really difficult to relax muscles during meditation but this method helped me be more aware and present.

Fantastic your meditation teaching I like to do it daily in the night Thank you so much for this meditation🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😀❤️

Absolutely stunning Talk! Immense gratitude!!!

Very eye opening. Thank you

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Read your good if detailed article on Silent Illumination in Buddhist studies.

Wow, wonderful talk. Thank you 🙏💗

What a treasure to have this fantastic lecture series freely available _/|\_ _/|\_ _/|\_

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In preparation he tells us: These days 'present' has become a buzzword, popular word, widely used by many people in many different ways and contexts, there is a lot of vagueness about this word. (Where there is this sloopy vagueness, there is sure to be a lot of confusion around this word.) Then he precedes to point out: "You have to be unmoved by your own thoughts and feeling in order to have an inkling (beginning taste) of what it's like to be present." Many other rich nuggets follow in this talk if one listens.

Lovely 🙏 thank you

Yes, it is circumstantial and not a black-white commandment. Strictly making precepts a "once and for all command" is a limitation and against the Buddha's teaching of being mentally liberated. Buddha Dharma is practical and rational, our intent and sensible morality as well as our karmic circumstances play role in making decisions. Imagine not taking vaccines because we might "kill" the COVID thus infecting the whole sangha onto their arhathood. haha~ Namo Amituofo~

Thank you for sharing this teaching. It was nice to get a reminder that there's more to Chan than just sitting meditation. I've found myself at times falling into the trap of viewing my practice based only on how I feel I'm doing in seated meditation. I try to remind myself that the sitting is just the rehearsal and daily life is the main event. I also really connected with Guo Gu's teaching style. He has a quiet intensity that drew me right in. Looking forward to listening to more of his talks.

I remember you from Zen International Forums.

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An inspirational talk! I love how the early Chan meditators continued to walk the path despite poltical upheaval.

Thank you so much for your excellent teaching🙏🏻🙏🏻😀🌺

But… the echo… the echo… why?

Sharing of the teacher's own personal experience in the context of the Dharma subject was so powerful. I recognize my own habit tendency to blame others but mostly myself and also to rationalize. 🙏💗

What is it that holds onto this solidified sense of I-ME-MINE?

If the self were not separate everyone would have awakened with Buddha...no?

Isnt compassion an emotion and merely one of the skandhas...which are empty?

Can you see your mind?

excellent video thank you sadhu!

Brilliant analysis, not to be easily found anywhere thank you!

What about not having a goal of meditation? Working through things sounds like a lot of effort.

Can you say something about addiction?

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could you please activate the translation?

This QA was the most confusing thing I’ve listened to so far in this series :(

Originally the Sanskrit term "dhyāna" was rendered into Chinese using the following characters, 禪那 (chan na). This is an approximation of saying the Sanskrit word, dhyāna. Later the "na" was dropped which then became Chan (禪) and in Japanese, "Zen". Chan is not a sect (= dissenting religious body). It is a zong (宗), hence, 禪宗 (chan zong). Zong is the Chinese rendering of Sanskrit, siddhānta which pertains to realization. Dhyāna, I forgot to add, is closer to the English word intuition. Intuition is the the act of coming to direct knowledge without reasoning or inferring. (Much thanks to The Zennist)