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~ Venerable Yin-shun
Associating with good and knowledgeable people
One who follows the true Dharma 
Should associate with benevolent people.
Such people, knowing the true nature of the Dharma,
Have the virtues of realisation and teaching,

As well as great compassion and eloquence.
Observing their virtues and not their shortcomings,
One should follow their advice without resisting,
The Buddha has said this lofty conduct is complete.
Good people should be respected by those who learn from them

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~ Venerable Yin-shun
The benefits of hearing
By hearing one knows all dharmas;
By hearing one can halt the advance of all evils;
By hearing one can end meaningless matters;
By hearing one can attain Nirvana.

The ways to listen
Like a vessel to hold water,
Like a seed to be planted in the ground,
One should avoid the three mistakes (desire, anger and ignorance)
By listening attentively, thoughtfully, and mindfully.

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I have taught my tai chi students asystem known as " the nine-cycled dispelling of wind corpses" It is as though the coarse winds that serve as the mounts of impure motivations and coarse thoughts are expelled with them.
I asked them to cl

ose up the right nostril with the ring finger of the right hand and breathe in through the left nostril. Then I ask them to move the same ring finger of the right hand to close up the left nostril and breathe it out through the right nostril. All in they have to repeat it three times.
Next, they use the ring finger of the left hand to close up the left finger and breathe in through the right nostril. After that they move their ring finger of the left hand to close up the right nostril and breathe it out through the left nostril. All in, they need to repeat in three times.
Next they breathe in using both nostrils to breathe in and out also three times. Follow that they will do a bit of warming exercises before they start to look at the black spot for about 10 minutes and move on to their meditation of awareness of inhaling and exhaling of breath.

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The Bodhisattva Shantideva says:
Knowing that special insight endowed with calm abiding
Thoroughly destroys the afflictive emotions,
One must initially seek calm abiding.
It is achieved by those liking non- attachment to the world.
The six 

prerequisities for achieving calm abiding are :
1. staying in an agreeable place
2. having few desires
3. knowing satisfaction
4. not having many activites
5. pure ethics
6. thoroughly abandonong thoughts.
Atisha's says:
If the prerequisities for calm abiding deteriorate,
Then, even if you meditate for a thousand years
In order to achieve calm abiding, there is no time
When you can attain meditative stabilization.
Therefore, a practitioner who wishes to achieve calm abiding must be able to distinguish between the excellent and absolutely essential prerequisities.The essential ones involve giving up non-virtuous conceptions and neutral ones causing fright. With regard to pure ethics, it is particularly important for someone who has committed murder to engage in the process of purification, involving confession, and the intention of future restraint.

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To find your way or path, you need to calm and still the mind and go further into your heart chamber where true self is. There is no two paths or other outside paths. Lord Buddha said," There is only one path, one way."

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~ Venerable Yin-shun 
The true Dharma is the body of the Buddha.
His life is pure wisdom,
Like the light moon shining through the autumn sky;
Therefore, we worship the Honored One of Two perfections- ( good future and wisdom).
Buddhas of th

e three periods are innumerable,
Buddhas of the ten directions are also countless.
having come to this impure world
because of his compassionate vow,
Sakyamuni Buddha is desrving of our worship.
His wisdom is perfect, his compassion infinite.
Overcoming all obstructions, he is totally
without remnants of habit.
These three virtues are equal and ultimate for all buddhas,
But for the sake of skillful means, there are differences.

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~ Venerable Yin-shun 
SEEKING REFUGE
The sea of Existence has no boundaries,
The world is full of worry and suffering,
Flowing and turning, rising and falling,
Is there no place of refuge and support?

SEEKING REFUGE IN THINGS OF THIS WORLD
"Accumulations of wealth and riches can be lost,
Those with fame and high status can fall,
Those who are together may be scattered,
Those who are born must die."
The well-governed state will fall into chaos,
The world once formed faces destructions;
Of the pleasures and certainties of life,
None can be relied upon.