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	<title>New Zen School 坐禅</title>
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	<description>making a start on the Buddhist quest</description>
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		<title>Crucial points to understand about Buddhism:</title>
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There are many books on popular spirituality currently doing the rounds which propose a kind of instant enlightenment, through the idea that you are already enlightened, if only you would realise it, and focus your attention on the &#8216;here and now&#8217;. These doctrines and teachings are at best silly and at worst seriously misleading.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/06/important-points-to-remember-about-buddhism/</link>
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		<title>Bassui on Zen</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/03/bassui-on-zen/</link>
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		<title>Practical Buddhism: What is Buddhism ?</title>
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Practical Buddhism: [1] What is Buddhism ?
What is Buddhism ?
In a word, Buddhism is a quest. It&#8217;s the search for ultimate metaphysical knowledge and insight. It is not a religion, or a philosophy, or a way of life, or a faith: it is an investigative quest. A true Buddhist begins at the beginning &#8211; at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2010/02/practical-buddhism-what-is-buddhism/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/11/making-a-start/</link>
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		<title>What is Chan ? A lecture by Master Sheng-yen 聖嚴法師 [1977]</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/11/what-is-chan-a-lecture-by-master-sheng-yen-%e8%81%96%e5%9a%b4%e6%b3%95%e5%b8%ab-1977/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/11/introduction-to-zen/</link>
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		<title>What is Buddhism ?</title>
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What is Buddhism ?
Buddhism is basically a quest, rather than a religion. It is a way of approaching the ultimate questions of life, but of approaching them in such a way that you find yourself on a metaphysical journey, rather than simply joining a community, and participating in that community as a believer. Buddhists are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzenschool.info/2009/10/what-is-buddhism/</link>
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