Transmitting the Light of Dharma assembly 2024: What Is Chan?
In April of 2004, Master Sheng Yen suffered a serious illness and had to be hospitalized. After being discharged from hospital, while recovering and recuperating from the sickness in old age, he nonetheless brought himself to travel to Singapore and Australia to hold Chan retreats and give guidance on Chan teaching to overseas devotees keenly seeking the Dharma. In his late years, the Master, with a firm aspiration and strong willpower, transcended the limitation of his aging, ailing body and left behind Dharma talks given at different venues around the world. This year marks the 15 th anniversary of Master Sheng Yen’s passing. On February 18, for the Dharma Assembly for Transmitting the Light of Dharma: The Rising Great Compassion with Continual Vows taking place at branch monasteries and centers of Dharma Drum Mountain, an excerpt of the Master’s Dharma talk to nearly 900 devotees in Melbourne, Australia was shown to all participants. From his teaching on “What is Chan?” we can once again realize the important value of how the practice of Chan teaching can help purify individuals, society, the environment, as well as the whole world. Let us review the Master’s teaching in this short film, and be grateful to him, though suffering from an illness at the time, for making an effort to light up bright lights of the Buddha-dharma for us. May we all make a vow to pass down the lamp of mind and initiate to practice, transmitting the light of Dharma to repay the Master’s kindness.

Transmitting the Light of Dharma


 
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