18/09/2026
【English Group Sitting】
📆: Every Friday
🕰️: 8:30pm ~10:00pm
✨Open to those who have completed DDM Beginner’s Meditation Class.
Including 8 form- moving meditation, sitting meditation, and a sharing session.
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🌱There is an important work attributed to Bodhidharma called The Two Entries and Four Practices, in which he details more explicitly what sentient beings must do to realize their true nature. The "two entries" are entry through principle and entry through practice. Entry through principle means directly seeing the first principle, or original nature, without relying on words, descriptions, concepts, experience, or any thinking process. Entry through practice refers to the gradual training of the mind.
Bodhidharma describes entry through principle as follows: "Leaving behind the false, return to the true; make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall." This may sound like the direct, easy path to enlightenment, but it is in fact the most difficult. If we think of Bodhidharma's own enlightenment as an entry through principle, then we would have to say that it only came after a lifetime of practice, culminating in his nine years of meditation facing a wall in a cave on Mount Song. Actually, the method used to accomplish entry through principle is precisely this phrase, "One's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall." This does not mean that the mind is blank; on the contrary, it is alert and clear, illuminating everything with awareness and responding with compassion. This is ideal, and it is the state of mind referred to in entry through principle.
In the Spirit of Chan (page 11-12)
