Upon the completion of the annual 10-Day Autumn Meditation Retreat for both monastics and laity, Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM), shared in compassion with the followers that Dharma practice is all about observing our mind, maintaining the awareness about the emptiness of nature. The precious 10-day span serves to help lay down a good foundation for meditation and enable solid traction. A tea party was given on the wrap-up day to share experiences

The Ling Jiou Mountain 49-Day Spring Meditation Retreat 2022 reached a meritorious closing on April 9. The LJM Founding Abbot, Dharma Master Hsin Tao, presided over the program and optimized all random opportunities throughout the retreat to expound the teachings of Buddha and unveiled the truth that ‘You are meditating when you walk. You are meditating when you sit. Resting in your Buddha nature, you are well and safe no matter if you talk or move’.

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch records a story of two monks arguing heatedly about a flapping flag in a gusty wind. One claims that it is the wind that moves, and the other insists that it is rather the flag. The sixth Chan Patriarch Hui Neng noted that their faces already turned beat-red and yet neither would back down. He then said to them,'It is neither the wind that is moving nor the flag that is moving. It is your mind that is moving'.

The air at Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) in autumn is full of the spirit of Chan/Zen. Dovetailing the 21-day retreat in conjunction with the recent online Water-Land Dharma Assembly, a 10-day Chan/Zen retreat commenced on September 28. LJM Founding Abbot, Dharma Master Hsin Tao, takes the lead of more than a hundred disciples in letting go of all clingings to pursue in-depth advancement in Chan/Zen Meditation. The Master encouraged everyone - monastics and laity alike - to focus on the practice and f

Once upon a time a butcher made provisions as alms to support a monk, yet the monk did not share Dharma with the butcher. As karma would have it, the two again befriended with each other in the next life. Once the butcher ran out of money for business and the monk loaned him the money with the condition that the butcher must supply produce unconditionally when the monk demands it. Then it happened at a time when all slaughtering was banned for three days out of respect for the birthday of Avalok

More than 80 registrants arrived at Ling Jiou Mountain’s (LJM) Wusheng Monastery for the two-day LOHAS Chan meditation camp on May 1 and 2, harboring all sorts of preoccupations. With the coaching and guidance of Master Guang Chuen, Master Bao Ben, and Master Miao Ru, the general sentiment of the camp after two days of practicing Chan meditation in different settings was that the secular fatigue was rinsed off and it was possible to claim back the quiet and happiness once known in daily life.

At the beginning of a new lunar year, it is time to move away from a 2020 that suffered tremendous setbacks due to COVID-19.In the face of lingering uncertainties, we are best advised to keep calm and our spirituality settled as a prerequisite to turn the page. Toward that end, more than a hundred practicing monastics along with some laity started a 49-day retreat from February 28 to April 18 led by Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM). Founding Abbot, Dharma Master Hsin Tao, oversees the retreat and leads

We at Ling Jiou Mountain used to print our desktop calendars and they were popular with our followers. For a host of reasons ranging from environmental considerations, concerns for deforestation, digital penetration in people’s daily life, etc., we decided to change that to a digital version from 2021 onwards. You can just download it or import the file into your personal Google calendar.

Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) has been conducting seasonal retreats for the sangha for years, whereby ordained monastics optimize the quarterly retreats by practicing meditation that nurtures their physique, mind, and spirit. Such occasions are thus critical for the monastics to gain solid traction in their Buddhist studies while lending physical expression to the practice of the LJM ethos of 'Compassion & Chan Meditation' . The recently commenced 10-day retreat (June 8 - 17) enlists the participati

Dharma Master Hsin Tao: Find Inside Tranquility by Way of Meditation and Ward off Pandemics with Positive Thoughts