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Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou

Shattering the Great Doubt: The Chan Practice of Huatou


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From today's most prominent and beloved teacher of Chinese Zen- the traditional practice of huatou-meditating on an unanswerable question as a way to enlightenment. Ask yourself a question without an answer. Keep asking it. Don't let it go. That, in a nutshell, is the Chinese Zen practice called huatou. It's a traditional method for breaking through the trap of our habitual thinking into the spacious mind of enlightenment. In this book, Chan Master Sheng Yen brings huatou practice to life. Huatou is similar to the better-known Zen discipline of koan practice, the key difference being that the person meditating on a huatou ('What is mu nothingness ?' is the classic one) is not concerned with coming up with an answer to the question, but simply with concentrating on the very quality of doubt that arises from asking it. The practice then leads to a shattering of doubt and thus to the deep realization that there is no separate, independently existing 'self.'

About the Author :
Chan Master Sheng Yen (1930-2009) was a widely respected Taiwanese Chan (Chinese Zen) master who taught extensively in the West during the last thirty-one y ears of his life, with twenty-one centers throughout North America, as well as dozens of others throughout the world. He has co-led retreats with the Dalai Lama, and he is the author of numerous books in Chinese and English, including Song of Mind, The Method of No-Method, and his autobiography, Footprints in the Snow.

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“Master Sheng Yen is a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning.”—H. H. the Dalai Lama


“Master Sheng Yen has the truly rare ability to harmonize classical teaching with actual meditation practice.”—Larry Rosenberg, author of Breath by Breath


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781590306215
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 268 gr
  • ISBN-10: 159030621X
  • Publisher Date: 12 May 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Chan Practice of Huatou
  • Width: 140 mm


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