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Experience Heart Chan Meditation~free 

place: NTU 1st student activity center 104
time : 6/20 8:00PM
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Meditation Class this Friday 7:30pm-9:00pm

  Ｈｅａｒｔ  Ｃｈａｎ   Ｍｅｄｉｔａｔｉｏｎ                   

for people expecting a better life

a class filled with PURE joy and GREAT energy

What can you expect in our class?

Relax your body and mind through deep-breathing

Improve concentration by external focus

Enhance the energy level of internal qi system

Retrieve joy, peace and wisdom in yourself

Hear the amazing sharing of international Chan practitioners

Time: Every Friday 7:30pm~9:00pm

Place: Heart Chan Meditation Center Xinsheng Chan Center

More details? Please search for “Chan Meditation -Taiwan” on FACEBOOK 

Blog: http://TaipeiChan.blogspot.tw/

Registration: http://tinyurl.com/ChanMeditationClass

For any questions, please email to EnglishMeditation@gmail.com

1st Transcendental Light Heart Chan Meditation Retreat

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Meditation: a way to reduce stress, rejuvenate and improve focus in daily life.

Event title: Meditation: a way to reduce stress, rejuvenate and improve focus in daily life.
Date and time: 2012/12/27 12:30~13:30
Location: Student Activity Center 302, (behind Post office), National Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology
Speaker: Jue Miao Ming Lian

If you are seeking to live a way of life that is stress-free, illness-free and worry-free, then this introduction class is for you. In other words, we will show you:

-A life style to attain perfect health documented and proven for over 2,500 years. It will make you illness free, which includes but not limited to energizing yourself, rejuvenating your inner organs, balancing your hormonal immune system.
-A proven method to quiet your mind, de-stress from all your issues. regain the wisdom that you always had within your, through a proven meditative practice, already benefiting a few hundred thousands in the 30 years we have been teaching.
-A way to enhance your focus and awareness, so that you can execute what you know is beneficial and necessary for you, instead of being enslaved by external events or your internal habitual excuses or inner struggles.

Chan and Purpose (Jue Miao Miao Ming)

Chan is a spiritual practice.

It’s not about releasing stress.  It’s not about improving your mind so that you can do better at work, or improve your interpersonal relationships.  It’s not about healing your body and making you feel more comfortable.  Chan is a spiritual practice.

Chan can be compared to a cake.  The cake has a very delicious, very nutritious, and very wonderful filling in the center, surrounded by very delicious cake with wonderful icing on the top.  If you focus on releasing stress, healing the body, and clarifying the mind, you are only tasting the icing.  You are missing the cake, and you never get close to even realizing what a wonderful filling it has inside.

Chan practice is challenging. It’s not a wonderful, peaceful, go-to-this-nirvana feeling every time you sit.  Anybody who has ever tried Sitting Chan has experienced pain in their legs.  It is very difficult sometimes, even excruciating.  Mental practice can be just as challenging; just as difficult.  

You need more to sustain you, to be able to get through this practice, than just superficial benefits.

It’s not that you won’t realize these things.  It’s not that you won’t witness these things.  It’s just that you don’t practice Chan to get these benefits; you get these benefits because you practice Chan.

There are many reasons why people come to Chan practice.  They may have a lot of stress in their lives, their job or study may be difficult.  They want some release from their stress.  They want to find a calmer, more peaceful place.  Perhaps they have other challenges in their lives that they look to Chan practice for a solution to.  They may want to have more self-esteem and self-confidence from which they can develop interpersonal relationships that are deeper and more valuable.  Or maybe they have some physical problem that they want to try to find solution to.  Finding resolution to these problems through Chan practice is a very difficult path, if your only motivation is to find a solution to a problem.

A Japanese sensei of Zen once asked me “Why do you sit and do the seated meditation?”

I gave the answer that I thought she wanted to hear: “I want to find a peaceful, calm place. I want to relax and I want to be released from the stress of my job.”

She looked at me and said “This sitting meditation, very difficult, very challenging. You should go sit on your back porch and drink a beer. You will find this peaceful place.”

As important as these problems may seem, in relationship to what Chan practice can provide you, they’re actually very, very insignificant problems.  Chan practice is interested not in releasing or relieving some temporary problem in this temporary body.  It is interested in evolving your spirit to be something greater than it was.  If we see ourselves as a spiritual being that has existed long before this body and will exist long after this body, then, there is an opportunity to evolve, to grow, to become something greater at the end of this life than we were when we entered it.

Chan practice is challenging.  When we sit, the body hurts, the legs hurt, the back hurts, and the knees hurt, everything becomes very painful, and we need something to sustain us through that part of the practice.  What you will find is that when you sit, and you breathe, at some point in your practice, you’ll find that you surpass this physical discomfort, that miraculously in the middle of the meditation, you’ll realize: it didn’t hurt today.  The pain is gone, and there is something deeper, some deeper place that you went to, in this practice.  The pain is no longer there.  And you have evolved also, you have realized, you have witnessed surpassing the body.  And this becomes the model that you carry forward.

But surpassing the body is just the first step; it just gives us some foundation, because you’ll find when you surpass the body, now you get to deal with the mind.  And the mind is infinitely more challenging to resolve and surpass than the body was.  The mind will raise a million different distractions and will create reasons why you’re wasting your time, why this is boring, why it hurts, why you’re not really getting the benefit.  The mind will find many, many reasons to try to find a way to release itself from the challenge of being trained and eventually surpassed.

If we follow the practice, and don’t try to short-cut, without trying to do too much too fast, we can use the witness of surpassing the body. There’s a model for surpassing the mind.  We’ll find once you surpass conscious mind, you’ll get to deal with sub-conscious mind.  Everything that you’ve done in your life that was painful, that was difficult, that was challenging, that you still hold inside that you haven’t released, you’ll have to go through and re-live that again.  Feel it with the same clarity, the same emotion, the same hurt, the same challenge, until you’re able to release it from the sub-conscious.  All of the accumulated karma that you bring into this life, all that you create while you’re here, you’ll have to purge and purify, and cleanse and cultivate that also from your being.

When you resolve and surpass body, and when you resolve and surpass mind—conscious mind and subconscious mind, you’ll find that, there’s no-longer separation between these aspects of self. That the wisdom of the body and the wisdom of the mind and the insight of the spirit are not separate things competing for time, trying to compete for your attention as you sit. You’ll find that the separation between them dissolves. And this is when you’ll have the opportunity for deep insight into the self, to be able to see who you are.

You strip all of these things away, and see what your true nature is, to truly achieve enlightenment within this lifetime, true happiness and peace inside that’s not dependant on circumstances or situations, but evolves of itself from within you.

This is what’s achievable from Chan practice.

Meditation Class This Thursday at NEW Center!

Dear friends:

We truly appreciate your interest in the Chan Meditation Class!

Thanks for the new arrangement from the foundation, we feel so lucky and happy to welcome an advanced Chan practitioner, sister Ming-Lian, to be our class mentor. We will also change the place from Dun-nan to Guan-qian Meditation Center! Guan-gian Meditation Center is near the MRT Taipei Main Station, so it is more convenient to achieve! 

Due to the new arrangement, it is also a new beginning for our course, truly welcome to join us the upcoming class (11/1 Thu. 7:30-9:00pm).

Step by step, under guided instructions, we will overcome our own physical limitations and conquer our scattered minds. For people who would like to improve concentration, relieve stress, balance emotions, and rejuvenate themselves in general, they can observe marked improvement in few months.

Address: 9F, No. 28, Guanqian Rd., near the MRT Taipei Main Station exit Z4.

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Meditation Milestone - Sunday 28th October

Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location: 3F., No. 99, Sec. 2, Dunhua S. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan

For those who want to challenge themselves for longer Chan meditation, this is the best chance you can never miss. The meditation period is around 60~90 mins, and you can truly experience the magical part of Chan meditation for longer practice. So we sincerely invite everyone to give it a try.
If you'd like to join, please email englishmeditation at gmail.com

Thank you very much!

Experience Chan - Thursday 25th October

Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Location: 3F., No. 99, Sec. 2, Dunhua S. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan

Newcomers welcome!!

The class is taught in Mandarin, for English-speaking newcomers, please arrive 30 mins earlier for the brief English introduction of Chan meditation.

If you have any questions please email englishmeditation at gmail.com.

Thank you very much!

Experience Chan - Sunday 21st October

Time: 9:30am - 11:30am

Location: 3F., No. 99, Sec. 2, Dunhua S. Rd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan

Newcomers welcome!!

The class is taught in Mandarin, for English-speaking newcomers, please arrive 30 mins earlier for the brief English introduction of Chan meditation.

If you have any questions please email englishmeditation at gmail.com.

Thank you very much!