Discourse On Entering The Tao of Sudden Enlightenment - Zen (Online, Free)

The event is for people to meet, discuss, share and help each other for Spiritual Growth, Cultivation and Network.

Please confirm your attendance by email taozen168@gmail.com with your name and mobile number before the event. We can then contact each other for more details if needed.

We know that we have body, mind and spirit. The body is tangible and will go through birth, sickness, aging, and death. It also has duality, there is men and women and it lives in the physical world. Mind is intangible, but still has duality. There are positive/negative thoughts. The spirit is intangible and beyond duality. Lao Tzu used Tao to refer to origin of creation and the pure spirit within each one of us. Buddha called the pure spirit as Buddha nature, meaning everyone can reach Buddhahood or enlightenment. It is referred to as the image of God in Bible and spirit of Allah in Koran. The more modern terms can be pure awareness or pure consciousness.
Even though there are different names, they all point to the same pure nature within us.
The analogy of sun and clouds is one of my favourites. The pure nature can be likened to the sun, which is always emitting light regardless of sunny days, cloudy days or stormy days. The vexations such as anger, resentment, greed, ignorance, attachment to fame, possessions...etc. can be liken to clouds that can temporarily obscure the light from the pure nature. However, once they are blown away, the light or wisdom from the pure nature will shine again.
The spiritual cultivation is the journey to awaken to the pure nature within us and how to blow away clouds of delusions to let the wisdom or light to flow from the pure nature without hindrance, which lead us to a life with joy, ease and love while living in this dualistic world.
We use Zen teachings as a starting point and are open to any other teachings, such as those from Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Lao [Tzu...etc.](http://tzu...etc./) and life experiences and wisdom from within each one of us.
Looking forward to see you all in the discussions.

We will use "Discourse On Entering The Tao of Sudden Enlightenment" by Master Huihai, who met the Master Mazu and reached enlightenment. Other teachings are welcome to share with each other during the study and discussion sessions.

We have done the translation ourselves to reflect the true meaning of the original text as accurately as possible. We welcome any suggestions during the discussion.

The online meeting link will be sent out on the day. Please message me if you RSVP but don't receive the link before the meeting.
Welcome to join us even if you haven't attended previous sessions as the discussion is quite flexible and any topic in previous texts can be discussed if needed.
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