Master Sheng Yen
Master Sheng Yen (1931-2009) was the resident teacher at the Chan Meditation Center in Elmhurst, New York, founder of Dharma Drum Mountain, and author of many books.
Chan Master Sheng Yen explains how our hectic modern lives prevent us from helping ourselves and those around us.
MeditationMagazine | Dharma Talk
How to Be Faultless
To hope to have no faults is to realize that you do have faults, and that in itself is to be faultless.
As Spacious as Nature
Select wisdom from sources old and new
Rich Generosity
Master Sheng Yen on transferring merit
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | In The Footsteps Of The Buddha
The Wanderer
Master Sheng Yen on learning to live without a home in New York City
Incomparable You
Ch'an Master Sheng Yen comments on two lines of the beloved sixth-century poem the Hsin Hsin Ming, or "Faith in Mind," by the third Zen patriarch, Seng Ts'an.
MeditationMagazine | On Practice
Nonopposition
Master Sheng-yen challenges us to accept adversity without resistance.
TeachingsMagazine | Dharma Talk
Being Natural
Let it go and be spontaneous, Experience no going or staying. Accord with your nature, unite with the Way, Wander at ease, without vexation. The most important thing in practice is to be natural and spontaneous.…
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