A TASTE OF ZEN​

Realize the Mind and realize the functions of the Mind, which is essential to create the phenomenon we want.
Life’s problems do not come about or disappear based on your wishes. Instead, they are determined by the thoughts that occupy your mind.
Each thought you have is a tool with which to create wholesomeness in life.
You are the Mind, and you have the ability to give rise to thoughts and functions. You have the ability to change the course of your life and fullfill your trues aspiration.
The Mind is by nature pure and free, so there is no need to seek elsewhere. The only task for us is to discover it, understand it and live in it.
Everything in life changes from one moment to the next. If we recognize this impermanence and live with it, we will be able to change our thoughts and find fresh opportunities in moment.

About the Monastery

Vairocana Zen Monastery is located in Garden Grove, California, in the sunbelt of Orange County. The Monastery features a state-of-the-art Zen Hall that provides Zen practitioners an excellent place to meditate, as well as Zen gardens. Vairocana Zen Monastery was founded with the purpose of clarifying the essence of Zen’s Mind teaching through a variety of skillful means. The Monastery offers Zen-Three and Zen-Seven retreats, as well as classes in meditation. In response to the Monastery’s growing popularity, branches have also been established in nearby city of Arcadia, California and Mexico City, Mexico.

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參禪要義

NT$378
清淨本心是了生死、成佛的依據 參禪是禪宗學人用功、開悟、了生死的一個方法。如古人所講,參禪要參到山窮水盡處,才能坐看雲起時、才能自在。所以參禪要參到底,什麼是參到底?參到無我相、無人相、無眾生相、無壽者相,參到「我」死掉,無明破掉,本性現前,從這裡開始用功了生死。一般人的用功,例如數息、持咒、觀想、誦經、念佛等,可以讓人從惡念轉到善念,或是從雜念轉到少念。這些用功方法是可以幫助人定心的助緣,但仍然是生滅的作用,無法讓人真正安身立命。要回到清淨的本性,依本性起修,就必須破執著、破無明。參禪就是破執著、破無明的一個很直接的方法。禪宗學人不管學什麼宗派,都是要參,否則很難破執著開悟。沒有開悟,就無法了解宗派真正的意思。所有禪宗祖師都是參破執著、參破無明,回到清淨本心、安住清淨本心,再慢慢開出自己宗派的宗風。所以如果沒有開悟,就沒有臨濟宗、曹洞宗、溈仰宗、雲門宗、法眼宗。不僅是禪宗,所有大乘佛法宗派,淨土宗、唯識宗、律宗、天台宗、華嚴宗,目的都是要了生死。要了生死,非破執著、除習氣、破無明不可。我執、法執、無明、習氣是生死的根,不管學南傳、大乘、或密教,都是要破掉、斷掉生死的根。
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頓悟修證

NT$340~376
先悟後修乃禪門正軌,然非漸修無以頓悟,且無頓悟後而不漸修者。學人若欲契入本心,須心法知見清晰,行持穩健,道心堅固,戒行清淨,摒棄善惡諸緣,努力於本參話頭上用心,從朝至暮,不可須臾離。須知大疑大悟,小疑小悟,不疑不悟。直至參破漆桶,身心脫落,方見本來面目。爾後更加努力,依所悟之境,空而覺、覺而空,綿綿密密,二六時中保任涵養,乃有寶燭光天之證也。縱觀歷代祖師,皆是經過一番鉗錘鍛鍊,不斷參究破執,直待破無始無明、徹悟、契入不生不滅的本性方才自肯。如大慧宗杲禪師偈曰:「桶底脫時大地闊,命根斷處碧潭清,好將一點紅爐雪,散作人間照夜燈。」至此方有安身立命之實地。徹悟後,還是要依據不生不滅的本性去用功,轉識成智,成就方便智,所謂無明分分斷、法身分分證,待功圓果滿,成就佛道,是為菩薩行持。禪宗祖祖相承,能令法脈不墜,乃因其教法修證可驗證、可重複。學人倘能依教奉行,必不負如來,不負己靈。
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