What are the four types of wisdom?
What is the difference between sudden and gradual enlightenment?
How can I tell if I am gaining skill in mediation?
How can I avoid injuries when cultivating?
Why is eating properly important?
What can sabotage my cultivation?
Advice for the serious meditator, pointing out the pitfalls of meditation and offering helpful suggestions about practice. Compiled from three decades of lectures given by the late Chan Master Hsuan Hua.
The late Master Hua was born near Manchuria, China in 1918. He taught at Nan Hua Temple near Canton, China, the same monastery where Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch taught in the 7th century. Fulfilling his goal of spreading the orthodox Dharma to the west, he has established 28 monasteries in Asia and north America, and had lectured orthodox sutras for 50 years before his passing.