Month: December 2021
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On The Supreme Teacher
I am currently on a meditation retreat that began on December 17, 2021. For this reason, I won’t be posting again until late December. With palms pressed, Andrew 1. Anyone who is fully awakened I call a master. A subset of masters will, in this post, be referred to as masterly teachers. 2. Anyone who…
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‘To Seek Is To Suffer’
A wonderful excerpt from Bodhidharma, “Outline of Practice,” in The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (trans. Red Pine), pp. 5-6: Third, seeking nothing [Bodhidharma’s interpretation of the Third Noble Truth, or the cessation of all suffering–AT]. People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something–always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up.…
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Key Lessons From Huang Po’s Transmission Of Mind
With the incisiveness of the kind of supreme Chan master that he was, Huang Po (?-850 AD) taught thus: 1. There is only the One Mind. The One Mind, as itself, is not some thing. Hence, its profound existence cannot be realized except by relinquishing any attempt to objectify or reify it (see 2 below).…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 