- Description
THREE DAILY TASKS FOR A PRACTITIONER OF THE WAY
1. Morning should be set aside as a time for daily cultivation and exertion, for continued Sŏn practice to scrub away the grime of the mind and nurture it anew each day (precepts, absorption, and wisdom; emptiness, completeness, and rightness; perfect practice with one mind).
2. Midday should be set aside as a time for working to requite grace, making diligent efforts each day to repay the Fourfold Grace and create a new world (dedication, respect, and belief; all Buddha offerings to requite grace).
3. Night should be set aside as a time for repentance and reflection, to consider if one has hurt others with his or her karmas of body, speech, and mind during the day, and to spend each day cultivating a new life (purity and completeness of karmas by body, speech, and mind).
THREE DAILY REFLECTIONS
1. Have I busied myself with scattering a whole and sound spirit or uniting a scattered spirit?
2. Have I busied myself with darkening a bright spirit or brightening a darkened spirit?
3. Have I busied myself with committing transgressions or creating blessings with the actions of my mind and body?
THREE PRACTICES OF REFLECTION
1. In my cultivation, is mine the mind that floats houseless in the air? Is my cultivation gathered like thin ice, solid ice, or iron and stone?
2. Is my knowledge merely “dry wisdom,” a fleeting phantasm, or true awakened perception, or is my knowledge penetrated by a brightness that is both limitless and divine?
3. Are my actions the practice of falsehood, truth, the Middle Way, or signlessness?
THREE THINGS TO EXAMINE YOUR WORDS FOR
As each day ends, I must examine the following:
1. Whether I spoke void words or true words
2. Whether I spoke words to hurt others or benefit them
3. Whether I spoke vulgar words or words of dharma that serve as a model to all
Three Ways of Thinking
1. In childhood, I must ponder what to do in the future to leave this world fulfilled, and I must take the right first step.
2. In my adolescence and the prime of my life, I must consider what I am doing now and live a meaningful life.
3. In my old age, I must consider what I have done in my life and reflect on the life I have lived, as well as what I must plan for in my next life.
- Contents
PART ONE
Essentials of Self-Cultivation Ⅰ
PART TWO
Essentials of Self-Cultivation Ⅱ
PART THREE
The Truth is One: Principles of the Five Main Religions
* For more detailed contents, please refer to [the detailed table of contents].
ESSENTIALS OF SELF-CULTIVATION
Author
Venerable Daesan, theThird Head Dharma Master of Won Buddhism
Pages
56
Bookbinding
Paperback
Publisher
Seoul Selection
Publication Date
2014
Product Dimensions
5.9(W) X7.9(H) X 0.5(D) inches
About the Author
* Venerable Daesan, theThird Head Dharma Master of Won Buddhism
Venerable Daesan (Kim, Daegŏ, 1914~1998) was the third Head Dharma Master of Won Buddhism who succeeded Venerable Chŏngsan’s Dharma seat.
During his 33 years as the Head Dharma Master, he made great efforts to establish the foundation of overseas missions, and especially emphasized the training of mind practice, and vowed that together we would eliminate poverty, and ignorance, and disease from the world. In particular, he had a strong interest in the world peace movement through interreligious cooperation and the establishment of United Religions.
While he raised the status of Won Buddhism to one of the major religions in Korea, he prepared its basis for being a world religion. He also published several books about mind practice including An Explanatory Diagram for the Practice of The Doctrine of Won Buddhism and The Essentials of The Chŏngjŏn (The Principle Book of Won Buddhism).ISBN
978-1-62412-028-2
Language
English
