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Sixième partie - Conclusion

Une série d'essais discutant certaines récusations rencontrées par les Praticiens du Zen Occidental

Le Bouddhisme est une religion complexe sans aucune voix, ayant plusieurs visages ainsi que plusieurs représentants qui ont chacun des vues diverses. Il est très facile pour un nouveau-venu de se perdre dans des fusions de croyance, de langues

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Elle Loge la Folie par Roberto Matta, 1970 - Les peintures de Matta furent sensibles aux systèmes dysfonctionnants politique et sociaux, plusieures de ses œuvres reflètent le chaos, la confusion et la souffrance endurée par ceux qui en étaient affectés.

ambiguës, d'habitudes, d'enseignements, de superstitions et de mythes qui ont produit de cette religion inhabituelle et expansive une œuvre comme celle de Mata.

Nous ne devons pourtant pas nous permettre de manquer la forêt pour l' arbre. Le secret du Chan, comme Maître Hsu Yun le répétait souvent, est découvrir cette lumière intérieure qui est la Nature Bouddhique. L'effort demandé n'est pas dans la recherche mais bien dans le fait d'abandonner, de laisser.

Suivez le Sentier et évitez les engagements samsariques dans des groupes et des organisations. Suivez ce Sentier par le Dharma qui vous sied. Chacun de nous est unique dans sa propre disposition, attitudes, habilites et intérêts - il n'y a pas de Sentier unique du Dharma auquel il faut se conformer.

Mesopotamia_worshiper_2600_B.C.-4injpgIdentifiez l'institution du Zen comme étant telle, une institution, et non le Sentier lui-même. Suivez votre vie où l'amour vous emmène - à être danseur, écrivain ou enseignant, artiste, charpentier ou parent - chaque activité est une opportunité de vivre le Chan.

Empruntant les paroles de Nuage Vide, " Nos activités quotidiennes sont exécutées dans le Sentier Lui-même. Y a t'il quelque part un endroit qui ne soit pas un endroit requis pour pratiquer le Sentier? La salle du Chan ne devrait même pas être Nécessaire. "

Cent mille mondes sont des fleurs dans le ciel
Un seul corps et esprit, le reflet de la lune sur l'eau.
Dès que la ruse finit et que l'information s'arrête,
A ce moment là, la pensée n'a plus de place.

- Grand- Maître Hanshan Déqing, 1564-1623


 

Les lecteurs désireux d'en savoir plus sur les sujets énoncés ici peuvent trouver des informations utiles dans les références ci-dessus.

Les écrits de Stuart Lachs

Stuart Lachs est un pratiquant Zen Bouddhiste depuis plus de 40 ans, il a étudié sous nombreux maîtres dans les temples et centres d'entraînements aux Etats unis, en Europe, en Corée, au Japon et Taiwan.

Il est une ressource de valeur pour la Communauté Bouddhiste pour ses grandes expériences des Institutions du Zen tout comme également sa compréhension du Zen/Chan et ses engagements de protéger et préserver le Dharma du Bouddha. Certaines de ses œuvres incluent :

Means of Authorization: Establishing Hierarchy in
Ch'an/Zen Buddhism in America
Copyright (c) 1999, Stuart Lachs

Richard Baker and the Myth of the Zen Roshi
Copyright (c) 2002 Stuart Lachs.

Coming Down from the Zen Clouds
A Critique of the Current State of American Zen
Copyright (c) 1994, Stuart Lachs.

Traduction: Fa Lian Shakya,OHY

 

Sutras and Shastras

Since there is no difference between the Shakti and the one who embodies her, nor between substance and object, the Shakti is identical to the Self. The energy of the flames is nothing but the fire. All distinction is but a prelude to the path of true knowledge. The one who reaches the Shakti grasps the non-distinction between Shiva and Shakti and enters the door to the divine. As space is ...

Thus have I heard. One morning, when the Buddha was staying near Shravasti in the jeta grove of Anathapindika's estate, He and His company of twelve hundred and fifty monks went into the city to beg for their breakfast; and after they returned and finished their meal, they put away their robes and bowls and washed their feet. Then the Buddha took His seat and the others sat down before Him.

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There is a teaching (dharma) which can awaken in us the root of faith in the Mahayana, and it should therefore be explained. The explanation is divided into five parts. They are (1) the Reasons for Writing; (2) the Outline; (3) the Interpretation; (4) on Faith and Practice; (5) the Encouragement of Practice and the Benefits Thereof. Someone may ask the reasons why I was led to write this ...

This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech. Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied. Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful, Not proud and demanding in nature.

The Buddha's Teaching on Loving-kindness
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Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One together with many of the highest Bodhisattvas and a great company of Bhikshus was staying at Rajagaha on Mt. Gridhrakuta. The Blessed One was sitting apart absorbed in Samadhi Prajna-paramita. The Venerable Sariputra, influenced by the Blessed One absorbed in Samadhi, spoke thus to the Noble Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara:

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The Platform Sutra of Hui Neng became a pivotal treatise in the history of Chan, often used as a distinguishing mark of Souther School Chán.  An important resource for anyone interested in the historical devolopment of Chán Buddhism in China. The Master Hui-neng ascended the high seat at the lecture hall of the Ta-fan Temple and expounded the Dharma of the Great Perfection of Wisdom, and ...

By NA
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita, Perceived that all five skandhas are empty&nbsp And was saved from all suffering and distress. O Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; Emptiness does not differ from form. That which is form is emptiness; That which is emptiness form.

The Heart Sutra -- "The Heart of the Perfection of Great Wisdom" Sutra

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By the Buddha

Sayings of the Buddha

Speak not harshly to anyone; those thus spoken to will retort. Vindictive speech begets sorrow, and retaliatory blows may bruise you.
-- Canto X.5

Even though a man be richly attired, if he should live in peace, calm, controlled, assured, leading a holy life, abstaining from inflicting injury upon all creatures, he is truly a brahmana, a recluse, a bhikkhu.
-- Canto X.14

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I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One, on a wandering tour among the Kosalans with a large community of monks, arrived at Kesaputta, a town of the Kalamas. The Kalamas of Kesaputta heard it said, "Gotama the contemplative — the son of the Sakyans, having gone forth from the Sakyan clan — has arrived at Kesaputta. And of that Master Gotama this fine reputation has spread: 'He ...

Death & Dying

By Chuan Zhi

When we recognize that the ego doesn't exist in any real sense but only as an artifice of the mind, there's nothing that needs explaining anymore: the notion of reincarnation is seen as nothing more than an intellectual game. The person, like the raindrop, merges into the sea of the Dharmakaya, a sea where individuality, in any mode of conception, is totally obliterated. Does one molecule of ...

By Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Jung was, and continues to be, a tremendous influence on matters of spiritual consciousness in the western hemisphere. He was deeply interested in the psychological and spiritual underpinnings of Zen Buddhism and other eastern religions and for many years collaborated with Zen scholars and priests such as D. T. Suzuki. Between them, an amalgam of psychology and spirituality took shape that ...
By John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. When she baptizes a child, that action concerns ...
By Jalai Al-Din
I died from the plant, and reappeared in an animal; I died from the animal and became a man; Wherefore then should I fear? When did I grow less by dying? Next time I shall die from the man, That I may grow the wings of angels. From the angel, too, must I seek advance; All things shall perish save His face Once more shall I wing my way above the angels; I shall become that which entereth not the ...
By Chuan Zhi

My first encounter with a Zen teacher happened when I was in my late twenties. Zen had been an interest of mine for nearly a decade before this chance encounter with a person of Zen. I had never thought seriously about actually DOING Zen, but I liked reading the philosophies that came from Zen literature. Doing Zen was, well, something I thought I would never be able to do: it required detaching ...

By Michael Gellert
“Death,” Jung wrote in 1945 not long after his heart attack, “is the hardest thing from the outside and as long as we are outside of it. But once inside you taste of such completeness and peace and fulfillment that you don’t want to return.”1 Jung was speaking here of his out-of-body, near-death experience, whose gripping effect indeed made it difficult for him to return to the world of ...