OCT 29

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Zen practice helps one to develop a mindful mind that sees things in its orginality. It helps to focus on everything that we do with awareness and with one-pointed mind. Only then you realise how blissful and joyful you are in engaging with work and relationship with the living beings. Hence your mind-heart which is full of compassion, warmth and loving-kindness is reaching out to anyone whom you are in contact with.

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Students' failure to understand the Tao and attain Tao is all due to instablity of mind and insubstantiality of approach. If you succeed in emptying all objects, being aloof of everything, reducing and reducting until you reach nondoing and your heart is clear and calm, then the inner work is done. When you then go to build up virtue and cultivate action, taking hardship on yourself for the benefits of others, doing what is necessary in each situation, unaffected by wealth, poverty, authority, or power, walking the earth unattached, passing the days according to conditions, all psychological afflictions gone, then the outer work is done.

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Question: According to the legend of the founding of Chan Buddhism, once Buddha held up a flower before an assembly, and his disciple Mahakasyapa alone smiled, Buddha said," I have the treasury of vision of truth, the ineffable mind of nirvina-I entrust to Mahakasyapa." What was this smile?
Answer: When Buddha help up the flower before the assembly, no one but Mahakasyapa saw the enlightened mind; that is why he smiled. Therefore Buddha entrusted to Mahakasyapa the marvel that is beyond doctrine.

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I used to tell my fb friends just chant the sound 'OM' for their beloved ones who had serious illness, or going for a medical operation. Whether you are a Buddhist, Christian, Hindus or with or with out religious belief , the chanting of OM sound to ask for help from the Supreme Consciousness is the simplest way if you don't know any mantra or a way to say a prayer. On my part, I will also do a p

rayer for your beloved ones who are sick or hospitalised.
The sound OM is an universal sound which has a powerful healing force or energy belongs to Nature. You hear this sound when you are in silence coming out from your inner self. You can hear this sound when you are standing near to a sea or an ocean. You can hear this sound when you are at the top of a mountain. The ancient enlightened sages or masters learn this sound from our Mother earth. Chant this sound as often as you can for your own personal protection or for others. OM............... ( 2 cents opinion)

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Contributed by Rithy Nau
Sound OM has its own power , it had been proved by scientific study because the tongue stimulates the hypothalamus , to pituitary gland and releases of chemicals and hormones throughout the body and enhances healing , emotions and mood , improves immune system, they help potentiate the proper replication of DNA , thus helping maintain integrity.
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ery morning, a count of 108 times. Breathe in gently and recite the sound from your base, three fingers below your navel. Let the OM sound vibrates all the way to the top of head and release the sound out through all your pores.Listen the sound with your ears and let the sound moves back into your system to do the healing and to release all your negativities and depression. After the chanting, close your eyes for 5 minutes and enjoy and feel your inner peace and happiness. Good luck.- 2 cents opinion.)