振明《楞严新粹》pg249-264 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 15

1. In the 4 days zen retreat, there are many images and thinking where I tried to cut off by switching from open eyes to closed eyes alternatively to intervene the thinking mind from the 8^th consciousness. Too much rubbish in my mind from daily life after so many years of living habits.

2. Now after the retreat, “I” can see my delusions more and easier to observe my likes and dislikes. “I” am more aware to observe my fore leg while walking to continue practice in daily life. It is easier to cut off my like and dislike mind. Chanting time chant. Bowing time repent or Don’t Know reflect what is seen and cut off the thinking.

3. “I” am able to withheld my words and sometimes to speak less or keep silence when dislike mind appear and ask what is necessary to communicate for the benefit of the others and filter off my dislike and anger. This helps to avoid blowing up the situation out of proportion unnecessarily. The ego has reduced with less “I”.

4. “I” just need to continue practice “Don’t Know” mind in daily life by Just Do It with a clear mind.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【禅修让心更加沉淀时才能清除垃圾，清楚当下。看见自己的不喜欢，且能恒顺众生，这是毕生续修的功课。行者，加油！】

振明《楞严新粹》pg228-248 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 14

1. Zen Master Sheung Shan has simplified Buddha’s teaching into very simple direct version of practice. Since the start of learning of “Don’t Know” mind was a puzzle until now a deeper insight, I can see everything is rooted from my “I”.

2. All the fundamental dharmma teachings from the 3 poison of greed, hatred and delusion as the source of suffering to upholding the precepts are just to break my thinking habits and physical habits in life to practice to know the terrible delusion of my “I”. Peeling of my attachments and wrong understanding layer by layer.

3. Now my conclusion of my next step in practice is “Don’t Know” mind in every situation in daily life to become one with the situation before I can move to reflect the correct situation. This is my insight on how to become no self. When “Don’t Know” in life is practice then there is no more “I” or self

4. Then I recalled Zen Master’s teaching when you start thinking, you and I is different. When you cut off thinking, you and I become one. I only understood on the words last time. After all the Saturday classes and self investigation in my life and now this is the fundamental of the fundamental in all practices. That is my homework from now onwards.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【好，期待你的学习分享。】

振明《楞严新粹》pg217-228 - 心得报告

Shurangama Sutra Session 13

1. I believe that Buddha has taught us in a simple way on the 3 dharmma inca (san fa ying) namely :

a. All matters are impermanent (zhu xing wu chang)

b. All dharmma isn’t any self (zhu fa wu ngwo)

c. Nirvana is the ultimate peace and just like this (niea pan ji jing)

2. The 3 dharmma inca are the underlying working principles in nature and everything in the universe. It is our swallow understanding on the universe and nature where we attached to form and substance that we can see, feel, hear, etc.

3. Due to poor understanding on :

a. impermanence, we attached to self, our opinions, things outside etc cause greed, hatred and delusion.

b. dependent origination (xhi er yin yuan), we thought there is a self, we attached to people, love ones and cause greed, hatred and delusion.

c. nirvana, we attached to name and forms and cause us cannot accept things or matters “as it is” then become conflict with each other and nature because they does not fit into what we can accept or want.

4. Take for example why I use to have conflict with my wife. It is because both of us have an “I”. The bigger the “I” the more serious our argument / conflict. Each of us are holding to our opinion and what we want but not acceptable to the other. Most of the time it is due to the future that we want. The future that we want is similar i.e. want a good and happy marriage and family life without financial worry when retired but not the same method to achieve it.

5. We do care for each other’s welfare but in our own way that is acceptable to oneself but not acceptable by the other. Each insist on our own method to achieve our common goal but the methods are not align hence conflict arose due to our deluded “I”

6. If one party compromise to the other’s method then he / she won’t be happy because there is still an unhappy deluded “I”. The leading party will be happy because follow my way and there is a happy deluded “I”. The challenge is how both of us can put down our deluded “I” and observe “who” is this deluded “I” in conflict. How to blend in 100% with the situation before can become one to see the correct situation, correct relationship and function correctly with a harmonious and happy resolution.

7. If we can resolve our conflict and live a happy and harmonious life together then enlightenment is not necessary. If we cannot resolve our conflict and ends up in separation then “I” need more repentance and strong practice.

8. Who am “I” ??? What am “I” ??? Who is in conflict ??? Really Don’t Know. Just no words and thinking in the mind and reflecting Shurangama lesson paper and car keys

Ching Meng Hapchang

【当看到“谁在矛盾中？”，多一步去看回自己的出发点是为了自己，为了太太，或是为了双方？只有放下己见才没有你我，才能回到3C。不一定每次都能做到，只是去尝试。】

振明《楞严新粹》pg177-195 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 11

1. Sakyamuni Buddha detailed explanation on dependent origination in 12 stages as below

2. From explanation of Just Do It by Daebong Zen Master is Substance, Truth and Function. I link it to diagram below

3. This topic is difficult for me to link from root to 7^th consciousness then the seed karma in 8^th consciousness. I recalled few classes ago did mentioned that our 8^th consciousness created everything around ourselves including mountain, earth etc. I guess this is why Buddha said everything is mind made when we have super natural power we can create anything. The issue is how can I link from my consciousness (6^th sense) to the sub-conscious (7^th consciousness and 8^th consciousness) in order to breakthrough.

4. I tried just to focus on my hearing sense already difficult during meditation, when hearing a car sound,  I will imagine a car and the word ”car sound” appear in my consciousness. Hearing people talking will start to divert attention to understand the story and words people talk. My consciousness is attached to words and forms which is not “Don’t Know Mind” Hence, it is difficult to cut off all thinking and just reflect just on the sound or no sound and link to deeper level of my consciousness.

5. I just have to continue practice and cut off all thinking that tainted with all kinds of attachment after so many years of living and learning in this life. It is not easy just to accept everything as it is without I, mine, me mind from past experiences and learnings especially the vocabulary learnt.

6. When a guitar string vibrates, it can cause another string with the same frequency to vibrate (resonate) without plucking on the other string. I guess this is how Buddhas and Bodhisattva can travel from one Buddha’s land to another Buddha’s Land or anywhere in the universe in a spit second using resonance. Maybe this is achieve using the 8^th conscious mind like 6^th sense (conscious mind) where it can observe the past, present and future but cannot do it with the other 5 senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body).

7. I have so much thinking to understand this topic and hopefully not confusing myself. I just need to meditate more and cut off all thinking in order to link my 6^th conscious to the 7^th and 8^th conscious mind

Ching Meng Hapchang

【第六，七和八识本来就互相链接。禅修是帮助我们观照前六识，不被第七识的分别执著牵引，并转化第八识成大圆镜智。】

振明《楞严新粹》pg164-177 - 心得报告

Shurangama Sutra Session 10

1. With more awareness in previous session’s insight, I now observe my feet contact to the floor while walking and my thoughts

2. I am still trying to feel the fire or qi in my body when my desire arose. Sometimes able to cut off the cycle at the contact stage without allowing it to move to the desire stage of the dependent origination cycle

3. It is interesting that everyday seems to be watching movies of myself.

Ching Meng Hapchang

【好，继续学习。也建议你结界在日常生活中固定禅修，必更能体会气脉的流通】

振明《楞严新粹》pg143-163 - 心得报告

 Shurangama Sutra Session 9

1. When I was removing the wild plants curling up the fence today, suddenly I have a realization that attachment is just like the plant curling up the fence. It is so strong and in a way scary because it can be many layers of attachments one on top of another holding strongly and not wanted to let go. I have to cut at the key points in order to break section by section. The plant nature of holding on so hard and entangle to the fence is just like my 6 senses.

2. Now, I can start to be more aware of my consciousness and feelings to my surroundings at the point of contact. The challenge is to keep “Don’t Know Mind” and just reflect on what is happening and a clear “I” relationship of the moment in order to function correctly without being control by emotions of likes and dislikes.

3. After some further internal reflections and link my insights with Dependent Origination, it is clear that our 6 senses are the capabilities / potential. When the 6 senses contact with the external environment feelings are generated. The interpretation of the feelings usually directly link and influenced by our past experience of the similar events which we concluded (labelled) the experience as good or bad or neutral (neither good nor bad). This is our 8^th and 7^th consciousness playing the effects which then move us to the next stage of desire / love (like, dislike or neutral thought) in a split seconds which leads us to react /act to move forward / avoidance (moving away / do nothing (neutral feeling). Then our karma is created if the actions is fulfilled and the rebirth cycle continues. Everything can happens very fast and it is scary if I am not aware about it and my life will keep on repeating rebirth.

4. After the insights I have more self awareness and like seeing my own movie which I am the main character react to my environment. With the awareness I then can see the movie of others’ reactions in the lives and to my life. This allows me to act more positively.

5. Hence, to stop the dependent origination from continuation repeating in my life I have to be calm and peaceful at the contact points with the environment and just observe my feelings (movie) without judgement of good and bad. Being neutral allows me to be clear on the situations what is happening before I act and not react from my past labelling conclusions. This allows me to cut off my 7^th consciousness more easily and less drama in life.

6. However, this needs more practices in my daily life with all my 6 senses when they contact with my environment

Ching Meng Hapchang

【是的，根尘识接触时都会产生受。去除分别心就回到当下，只是去行动！加油！】

淑茹《楞严新粹》p120-141 - 心得报告

这一课，师父运用电脑来比喻八识的间的关系。让我们容易去了解生命的

轮回，操作，习气，显现，性相，明心等等。修行者要有一个明确的方向

，时刻保持见性而不著相。通过心性的提升而把生命的高度，广度和细度

也全方位的提升而达到圆融不二。本课也提到，除了心性的提升，一位修

行者也需关注身体和气派的改变。

时刻保持见性而不著相不是一件容易的事，需通过不断的学习才能慢慢靠

近目的地。生活中，难免会遇到一忙，就会很多事情（烦恼）也会陆续的

一个接一个的来临等着你去处理。这时候，就是交功课的时候。上个星期

大学开始举办一年一度的毕业典礼。当问到哪位讲师能出席观礼给学生们

打气加油时，每个人都安静了，因为大家都忙，加上还要上课和开会。如

果出席毕业典礼，就必须另外安排补课等。一开始，我也不想去的，因为

去了很多年。不过后来我想想，我是出席了很多次，可是对学生来说，那

是他们的第一次本科毕业典礼，错过了，时间没有的回头。学生们也希望

老师们也一起参与和给与他们祝福。学佛者不就是要把阳光和欢乐带给大

家吗？还有科技的发达，安排补课也不一件麻烦的事。所以，我还顾虑什

么？在每个当下，时刻保持正念做出正确的选择。我再次出席了学生的毕

业典礼，皆大欢喜，欢喜再做下一次。

【放下我执和分别计较的当下，就好比你把你的“作业系统”更新了！恭喜你，继续。】