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# The Method of No-Method: The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination Paperback – November 11, 2008

**Brand:** chan master sheng yen
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- **What is this?** The Method of No-Method: The Chan Practice of Silent Illumination Paperback – November 11, 2008 by chan master sheng yen
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## Customer Reviews

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    no-nonsense summary of how to meditate
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 7, 2020*

Superb book on how to meditate. Relax your body parts one by one, then keep your whole body in awareness, and if you're tense again, repeat. That is it.I wish that this was THE book that I first read on Zen meditation. I find that the method of the book is implicitly though but following the Satipatthana Sutta which gives it a foundation. A lot of the other Zen texts give you way more narrow or ad hoc seeming instructions that make sitting more difficult and leave you without a map (focus on the breath, the hara, the touch of your thumbs, your posture), or give you stories and allegories to fill your mind with and make you miss that the only thing you should do is be aware.The only important thing is to be aware. Not only on the cushion but also when eating, showering, driving, or at work. I like that the book emphasizes this and spells out in concrete terms how to bring awareness to our everyday activities.This book was on my list for a long time. I am happy I finally bought it.

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    A truly extraordinary guide to human enlightenment/realization
  

*by E***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2013*

As far as I am concerned in my truly honest judgement,sheng yen's book the method of no method is truly one of the great contributions to mankinds well being in the twenty first century. Sheng yen is the greatest chan/zen teacher to reach the west if only for his revival of silent illumination enlightenemnt/realization practice of the caodong lineage/school of chan/zen Buddhism that went to Japan under the name of soto zen. Here we a truly simple direct practice that all can practice in all walks of live. It is deeply liberative and conducive to truly deep well being. It is a testament to the power of full attentive here and now direct awareness less filtered by wandering irrelevant thought in every action to truly liberate a person,make him more responsibly productive to the needs of every situation as they arise, break self centered fears and graspings to see things as they truly are not how you would like them to be and to provide a rational basis for profound well being. Silent illumination practice in short is one of mankinds greatest inventive practice in promoting human flourishing. In the interests of transparent advocacy I am a member of sheng yen's chan/zen Buddhist lineage but then I searched long and hard in find a practice of spiritual awakening. The method of no method is beautifully written in its clear direct simplicity but you might use thich nhat hanh the heart of buddha's teaching as a fine introductory guide.  Eric warwick

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    Most Zen teachers avoid technique for fear that the student ...
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2014*

Most Zen teachers avoid technique for fear that the student will reify and attach to it as a means to an end, thus missing the aliveness of the actual practice itself. The problem with this reticence is that the students never learn to properly aim their intention and they end up grasping at their desire for Enlightenment instead, thinking they are doing something meaningful; which they are not. In fact this grasped desire has the the opposite effect of pushing Clear Perception away because it simply cannot be grasped as an object as there is no stasis to it whatsoever.So the "method" as Sheng Yen refers to it, actually keeps challenging us to step back from the opacity of our collapsed views and opens us back up to the vibrant aliveness of the present moment, utilizing the practice of conscious awareness of the actual relative real experience of Just Sitting as an antidote to the relative imaginary experience of wanting or resisting. Thus we are correctly aimed and continually  course corrected because the tactile referent of Just Sitting is both an obvious benchmark to see how far away our minds have wandered from our actual experience and also a clear pathway back to the relative real. It is only from the intimacy of the relative real that the opacity of the relative imaginary can drop away allowing the way of Clear Perception to emerge of it's own.

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