Writings by Fa Lian of Greece
Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (1)
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Jan 04, 2009
The words of Master Hsu Yun, with illustrations by Rev. Fa Lian Shakya Hsu Yun's Chan Teachings (1) Read more
Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (2)
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Feb 03, 2009
The words of Master Hsu Yun, with illustrations by Rev. Fa Lian Shakya Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (2) Read more
Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (3)
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Mar 04, 2009
The words of Master Hsu Yun, with illustrations by Rev. Fa Lian Shakya Hsu Yun's Teachings (3): The Hua Tou Read more
Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (4)
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Apr 28, 2009
The concepts of Master Hsu Yun, with illustrations by Rev. Fa Lian Shakya The Teachings of Hsu Yun (4) Read more
Master Hsu Yun's Teachings (5)
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published May 05, 2009
The Teachings of Hsu Yun (5) Read more
Love Forever
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Jan 04, 2010
The seeds of love glow everywhere and in all things. Love is the eternal movement that from darkness brings all beings to the light, to the Supreme, to Sublimation. Love mysteriously penetrates and expands its immensity in harmony everywhere in the universe from atoms to stars and hoist up our... Read more
Penetrating Emptiness: Ta panta rei
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Feb 03, 2010
Plato wrote that when we're able to negate both being and non-being, we discover absolute nothingness, and that within that absolute nothingness we discover the absolute present - which is itself the Ultimate Reality. No such understanding can come without a mystic's eye. Shunyata, Emptiness, Void, Oneness, Suchness, Buddha Mind, Nirvana,... Read more
Poetic Images
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Apr 20, 2010
Attachment to things means suffering. Beings are so tied up they can’t move so end up being part of those things they make. The ego always finds reasons to hang onto someone or something. Things are tough and sharp in this world and hurt the purity of one's soul endlessly... Read more
Commentary on Rev. Chuan Zhi's "Bring on the Sun!"
by Fa Lian of Greece
Published Dec 23, 2010
The need to believe, as the Buddha said, is the primordial condition to walk the Path. Spiritual transition stages are very explicitly analyzed by Abbot Chuan Zhi in his essay Forward Motion: Bring on the Sun! It gives a clear outlook and conceptual understanding of the several differences and difficulties each one... Read more
A Woman's Work
by Fa Lian Shakya
Published Mar 14, 2012
Seeing things as they are Awareness opened one of the Dharma doors with a new way of seeing things. She started to understand more and more, then realized that all was neti! neti! Starring at all things, she saw through all forms the emptiness that beheld the whole. What is... Read more