20 - Emptiness by Ven. Chang Wu
Chan Meditation
English - December 26, 2020 16:10 - 59 minutes - 55.5 MBBuddhism Religion & Spirituality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This teaching is by Venerable Chang Wu. Venerable Chang Wu is the Director of Dharma Drum Vancouver Center in Richmond, B.C., a branch monastery of Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM), founded by Chan Master Sheng Yen.
In 1993, Venerable Chang Wu began practicing with Master Sheng Yen in New York while she was a business professional holding an MBA. She started her teacher’s training with Master Sheng Yen in 1999 and entered monastic life the next year. In 2003 she started teaching as Dharma and meditation instructor and a few years later leading 1-day to 3-day retreats. In 2009, she moved to Taiwan and initiated a translation project of Master Sheng Yen’s Complete Work. A few books on meditation practice have been published now. While working on translating books, she was active in leading meditation activities and teaching classes in Dharma Drum Sangha University. Currently, she teaches meditation and Dharma classes, gives public lectures and leads retreats at Dharma Drum centers, meditation groups and Dharma centers in west coast North America, London, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Other than meditation practice, Chinese Buddhism, inter-religious dialogue, she also enjoys being in nature, walking in the woods and artworks.
You can find more from her at https://www.chanmeditation.ca/
This podcast is run by the London Chan Meditation. You can find out more about us at https://londonchanmeditation.org. Notes. 1:44 - A brief history on how the concept of emptiness came about. 10:49 - In the āgama, the concept of dependent origination. 27:30 - We have to start with something that exists, something tangible to work on, a teaching we understand, that we can relate to in our lives. 28:45 - The four noble truths, dependant origination, causes and conditions. 29:40 - It offers us a way out of vexations, repetitive habitual patterns, fixated mental constructs, suffering. 31:10 - Engaging in good virtuous deeds, benevolent, altruistic deeds. 31:35 - A mind thinking of others, a caring mind, an accepting mind, taking the other person into consideration, into care, open kind, gentle and loving mind. 33:06 - An example, here's my watch. 34:12 - Our actions affect our mind.