More and more people nowadays are aware of and interested in meditation. But it seems to be too difficult and mysterious. This book will guide you through the process of meditation even if you have never practiced it before. If you are already meditating regularly, it will provide profound fundamentals and understandings and improve your meditation technique. We are running 20% discount only for limited time.
The Chanhandbook: The Learner's Guide to
Meditation [Paperback] Yong Hua (Author)
The Chan Handbook is
accessible to the casual reader, and yet it also contains practical and
concrete instructions that will be of great value to the advanced practitioner.
In addition, all people, regardless of their religious affiliation, can achieve
personal benefit from Chan Meditation. Thus The Chan Handbook makes an
excellent gift for anyone interested in meditation.
Chan is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that has been passed down directly from the Buddha through his lineage of Patriarchs to the present. The power of Chan Meditation has been taught to seekers of enlightenment in Asia for thousands of years.
“Meditation is a powerful technique for restoring your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. Ultimately, meditation will help you unfold your inherent wisdom, enabling you to end suffering and attain enlightenment. And on a more basic level, you will develop greater focus and concentration, which will have an immediate and practical application to your life.” - Chan Master YongHua
About the Author
Master YongHua,
aka Thich Vinh Hoa to the Vietnamese, was born in South Vietnam in 1955. He
graduated from a French high school in 1973 and went to the United States for
college in 1974. He earned a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics from the
University of Minnesota in 1976 and an MBA from the University of Chicago in
1982. As he was graduating from the Marie Curie French high School in Saigon,
Vietnam, the master aspired to go abroad to study business administration in
order to acquire the skills to run companies and eventually come back to help
build his country that was severely ravaged by the civil war. So he started
working as a programmer for large US computer companies after graduating from
college and eventually took on positions of Accounting, Finance and Sales in an
environmental company in which he became a top level executive. He became
disenchanted with the corporate life and grew weary of the worldly life. In
1995, he decided to leave the home life under Great Master Xuan Hua who founded
the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and stayed within that system for four years.
He later received full ordination under Master Man Giac in 1999 at Vietnam
temple in Los Angeles. Master YongHua's original plan was to leave the home
life and spend the next ten years to investigate Chan but he enjoyed the purity
of the sanghan's life and never left. After becoming a fully ordained monk,
Master YongHua went to Taiwan to learn Chinese and precepts (Buddhist rules of
morality). Two years later, he came back to the United States where he
practiced in seclusion for several years before he started teaching Chan at the
living room of his place of abode. A few years later, a temple was offered to
him. Therefore, he started teaching Chan and Pure Land in parallel.
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Paperback: 238 pages
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform (November 20, 2012)
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Language: English
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ISBN-10: 1480053201
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ISBN-13: 978-1480053205
Customer
Reviews
“ If you follow the instructions, you
too will gradually increase your concentration like all of us who have been
training directly under him. ” Chan devotee
“ Having recently started practicing
meditation, I found the content of this book easy to read and easy to put into practice. ” sweetwalla
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