Shaolin Temple is located in Dengfeng City, Henan Province of China. Disciple's Home of Shaolin Temple is newly furnished to host the overseas Shaolin Disciples with comfortable accommodation, basic facility, and exotic Chinese food. It is only 10 minutes walking distance from Shaolin Temple.
What does Buddha say? Isn’t it difficult to understand? I tell you that truth Buddha has found is very easy. I even don’t think people will believe it so easy like this. Even Buddha couldn’t believe it so easy when enlightening the truth. The book says that after enlightenment, Buddha was unwilling to teach others the truth because he was afraid of being laughed at. The truth Buddha enlightened as well as content he preached whose core is just the five characters: bu hu si luan xiang (don’t indulge in wild flights of fancy). When a person could achieve that don’t indulge in wild flights of fancy, his heart will become clear and peaceful and worries and miseries will also disappear. 48,000 kinds of Dharma-gate recorded by Sutra covering counting breaths, contemplating from mind or space, chanting, worshiping Buddha or canhuatou (thoughts triggered by Buddha’s words or questions) as well as others whose only purpose is to make people be unable to indulge in wild flights of fancy.
Having a great spirit means mind-practicing, requiring Buddhist disciples compassion, humanity and ego-less as well as continually setting yourself from the bondage of your psychology confusion. Modern science has very profound elaboration of psychology’s influence on human health. Regulating physical health by psychological adjustment has become an important treatment.
Buddhism’s cultivation of good conduct includes conditioning behavior in daily life such as basic necessities of life, belonging to the arrange of Buddhist regimen. Buddhism advocates thrift and self-sufficiency. Monastics have to live by their own labor for food and vegetables, making self-sufficiency. There is a rule in Buddhism: “a day without work, a day without eating”. Practice has improved that a certain amount of work for human body can increase the circulation of blood, lower blood lipids and dredge the channel to help boost metabolism of human body. In addition, learning Buddhist theories and Buddhist thought work out for regimen through mental work.
Chinese people prefer to refer to Shaolin wushu as “a unique type of gong-fu, in which traditional Chinese martial arts and the Chan tenets are integrated”. However I choose to refer to Shaolin wushu as “wushu imbued with Chan”. It goes without saying that Shaolin wushu is the most valuable heirloom of Shaolin Monastery and of Buddhism as a whole. Actually it is regarded as part of not only China’s cultural heritage but the world’s cultural heritage.
Kungfu and Chan are regarded both as a kind of belief and a way of practice for Shaolin Monastery. Every second of every day in the past three decades, whether sitting in meditation at the Chan Hall or copping with daily chores, I take it as a way to practice Buddhism and cultivate spirits, and following the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, I lead disciples and cultural heritage bearers of Shaolin Temple remaining commitment to Buddhist doctrines and the spirit of practice and staying focused on traditions and realities down to the road. Furthermore, we will renew our commitment to embracing open-mind, tolerance, benevolence and alms-giving, and we will strive to live up to the Buddha’s original goals by martial arts and Chan meditation(Kungfu and Chan) with gratitude and joy, and in this way the martial-art training would be conducive to the practitioner in gaining numerous awakenings before he arrives at his ultimate awakening and would help inculcate in him firm willpower, bravery, and sagacity.
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