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	<title>New Zen School 坐禅 &#187; Basic Zen</title>
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		<title>Bassui on Zen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These sections from Bassui Tokushō (抜隊得勝?) (1327-1387) contain an excellent account of the essential teachings of Buddhism and Zen.



YouTube- Basui&#8217;s Enlightenment Part 1
YouTube- Basui&#8217;s Enlightenment Part 2
DHARMA TALK ON ONE MIND
by Bassui Tokusho Zenji
If you would free yourself of the sufferings of the Six Realms, you must learn the direct way to become a Buddha. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a start</title>
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Making a start, on the quest to answer life&#8217;s biggest questions.
To begin with, we have to establish a context, or a mental or psychological environment within which to function. You have to get your mind in gear. And the key components of a healthy mental environment are sanity, moderation, and a striving towards the highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Chan ? A lecture by Master Sheng-yen 聖嚴法師 [1977]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Chan is a Chinese term rendered as Zen in Japanese]
[Transcript of a lecture, giving a very simple but lucid account of what the Chan practitioner is trying to achieve] [Taken from the Western Chan Fellowship site]

I wish to start by telling you that Chan is not the same as knowledge, yet knowledge is not completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Zen</title>
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Introduction to Zen
Zen is a basically radical sect within Buddhism, which is itself a radical metaphysical quest, as opposed to a standard faith-based religion. All of which makes Zen something of an extreme approach to the big questions of life. Zen has come about as the result of the application of no-nonsense Chinese and Japanese [...]]]></description>
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