Experience sharing

Where is your mind?

English Chan 1 on 8/12, led by Ven. Guo Chii, led more than 42 participants to experience one-day Chan through the dynamic eight forms of dynamic meditation, static meditation, massage and yoga stretching. The walking part of the afternoon is also the part that I feel deeply about participating in this activity. Under the guidance of the Fashi, the speed of public walking varies from gentle and gradual to different steps, sometimes accelerating the fast step, sometimes connecting the slow step. The transformation of body rhythm gradually relaxes in the change of pace, tightness, looseness, and length of the pace; The adjustment of psychological and emotional emotions ranges from distracting from looking around and letting go of control, to focusing and stabilizing and beginning to reduce distractions. In the process of marching and following the action, the relationship with the students before and after is established by observation, and the distance and proximity of the spatial distance are the relative feelings of the body perception between the subject and the object. Focus on your own body and mind and watch the pace of others, realize that you and others are independent but mutually influencing. Halfway through "Faster!" "Faster!" The sense of urgency created by the Fashi through the urgent pursuit of language, the body follows the rhythm of the people, and the consciousness cannot think much, all in order to catch up with the footsteps of the predecessors. Just on the verge of feeling physically exhausted, suddenly the signal to stop, and everyone was instantly stationary. The Fashi forcefully asked, "Where is your mind?" The moment is stunned, and time and space seem to be static. "Where is the mind? " Extremely powerful forces reach deep within. Just as the body, mind and space are integrated, the process of being fully engaged also melts the sense of time. Through the baptism of the experience, after hollowing out the whole self, meditating with questions, the body and mind are more stable.

Finding the Mind: Chan Master Sheng Yen's Teachings in the West The book states: "... We should dissolve the sense of 'community' or 'family' and truly integrate it into the life we live in. ...... Let go of subjective mental activity, judgment and discriminating mind, and open your mind." In the process of one-day meditation, I see that the original expectations and presuppositions of Chan One are dissolved little by little, removing self-centeredness and opening the mind to experience the most immediate state of the moment. Just as I didn't expect to use the method of huatou practice in this event, I experienced a slightly shocking first experience under the leadership of the Fashi. Through a day of meditation practice, let go of unnecessary tension caused by over-imagining things that are yet to come, and focus on each moment in the present moment. Meditation retreat is like a journey of self-discovery, through relaxation, concentration, and letting go, to constantly wipe away the pearl of one's inner being stained by worldly troubles, trying to see what the essence is beyond some phenomena. It's like Ven. Guo Chii asks us, "What is our original face?"


Written by YingEn Kang (康瑩恩)