Lam Te Zen sect. Lam Te Zen sect is a Zen lineage that is listed in the Five Families of Seven Schools, that is, the main sect founded by Zen master Lam Te - Nghia Huyen (year of birth, death in 867) is unknown. Almsgiving, precepts & meditation practice Nghia Huyen from Nam Hoa district (Cao Chau), is the 6th generation successor since the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng. After he left home, he studied with Zen Master Hy Yun at Mount Hoang Ba, then went to study with Zen Master Dai Ngu. In 854, he went to Tran Chau to establish Lam Te Institute near the banks of the Ho Da River, from there he received a large number of monks and nuns. In 867, on April 10, when the Master gathered the gods of Thi Chi, his disciples followed the Dharma with Quan Khe-Chi Nhan, Bao Tho Chieu, Tam Thanh-Tue Nhien, Hung Hoa-Ton Tuong... about 20 people, later created a large sect, the Lam Te sect. Lam Te Zen sect belongs to the ideology of Zen Patriarchs. The principle of this Zen sect carries the thought: "Regardless of text, The teaching of a foreign religion, directing the human mind, directing the human mind to become a Buddha" (Do not set up charges on text and language, transmit outside the scriptures, point directly to the human mind, see the nature to become a Buddha). From that principle, his meditation method This school does not follow the conventional system of thinking, transcending all methods of rational argument - Thinking without methods, thinking is to create opportunities for the awakening of wisdom. And this is also the credo for Lam Te's method of meditation. With the Lam Te Zen sect, Patriarch Nghia Huyen has shown a very unique style and art to open up the meditation muscle for the opponent, which can be said to be very eloquent and extremely unique. These styles and arts are expressed through: Four materials, Four new masters, Four singing, Four mating use, Bat Bong and especially Zen koan. Through these styles, meditators randomly receive to enlighten the true mind. The Four Simple Materials This is a method that is considered to be the best to help the practitioner discover the most difficult and mysterious koans in meditation. Four simple materials include: "A thief does not take the scene. Winning the scene does not take the person. The character is all won. Humanity is not won." - Robbery without taking the scene: Stealing means refusing to refuse to refuse, oppose or deprive the person who comes for consultation; and not taking the scene means not objecting to that person's words. - Obtaining the scene without taking the person: Same as the analysis of the two words of taking the person and not taking the scene above, only the opposite is the case. To steal the scene is to refuse the word of the person who comes to consult. Not taking the person means not objecting to the person coming to the consultation. In general, taking the scene without taking the person is excluding, refuting the words of the questioner but not excluding the questioner. - All characters won: is to make the opponent no longer stuck in the idea of ​​subject and object, mind and scene... - The scene is not won: This move is considered as fictitious, the scene reveals itself. . These are the four materials proposed and used by Patriarch Lam Te. These four simple materials are a method of opening up meditation muscles for the opponent, the best method of all methods; has the ability to break and solve mysterious koans where knowledge, words, and ideas cannot enter. The Four New Hosts The Four New Lords are the four types of hosts and guests. Understood according to the intention of the Zen house, the master is the pure nature, the true mind that is permanent, immutable from time to time in the self-mind; and guests are the false consciousness, distinguishing mistakes... coming and going, birth and death in every moment in mind. The host-guest method is implemented through the following four cases: “Guest in guest. Host in guest. Guest in the host. Master in master”. These four cases of the host and guest are also intended to show the practitioner the way to the ultimate goal of Zen. - Guests in guests: According to Zen Master To Nguyen: "Taking into the opposite of reason, self-delusion is the guest in the guest". The is the act of creation, is the hope of discriminating, is the unreal fantasy of birth and death. Reason is only for the subject, is the goal needed, which is inherent, not to come and go. - The host in the guest: The reason and the thing are inseparable, the good and the bad, the true and the hopeless, ... they are not separate but all are just two sides of one reality. The good exists because there is evil, the truth exists because the illusion exists. If you give up hope to find the truth, you will never succeed, if you give up bad to find good, you will never succeed. All of them make up for each other, present in each other - so in the sutras there is a sentence: "Defilement is Bodhi" means this. - Guests in the host: Just like the analysis above, in the reason there is, in the reason. Especially here emphasize more, the reason often gives birth to the thing. - Owner in master: This case is intended only for those who, when they have seen the true truth, ie when they rely on the means to reach the end, and have come to the end, then give up the means, as when they have already reached the end. If you cross the river, leave the raft behind, you don't need to follow it. Those are the four types of hosts and guests that Lam Te often uses for four classes of people: those who follow with the guests, those who fall into independent subjects, those who discriminate against duality, and those who are stuck in the practice of dharma. Four singing (four types of shouting) - Shouting is a method of awakening the minds of Zen learners to come back to the magical truth in the fastest way. The shout not only started from Zen master Lam Te but was used by Zen master Ma To - Dao Nhat (born in 709 - died in 788) long before that. Ma To opened a new era for Zen. He shouted loudly when Ba Truong came to ask Zen again, the screams were so loud that Ba Truong was deaf for three days. But Lam Chi's shout was even more eloquent, more functional and effective. And the scream is considered to be Lam Chi's most powerful means. Patriarch Lam Te distinguishes four ways of shouting: "There is a scream like a precious sword, a king of diamonds. There was a scream like four golden lions' hooves on the ground. There was a scream like a fishing rod swinging a ball of grass. There's a scream that doesn't have the effect of a scream." - The voice of the diamond king's treasured sword: This is a scream with strong and sharp material that has the ability to cut off all consciousness, words, delusions, attachments and distinctions about mortal saints, egos, good and evil... and then enter with true nature. Usually, empty. - A scream like four golden lions' paws standing on the ground: This is a scream with the power and power to smash all dualistic ideas, crazy mistakes. - A scream like a fishing rod waving a ball of grass: This is a scream with the intention to probe and reflect to clearly see the original form of the opponent who is still tied, stuck on what objects, mistakes any. - The scream has no effect of the scream: This is the scream that destroys the scream of knowledge. The above are the four types of shouts of Patriarch Lam Te to open the meditation mechanism for students, and this method has become very popular in the tradition of the Lam Te school. The Four Reflections are also another method to show the practitioner the view intuitively, without discriminating, without thinking. Four uses include: "Before projection after use. Before use after projection. Simultaneous use. Use not at the same time”. There are people in front of the rear projection; before using after projection is legal; Simultaneous use is to chase buffalo from plowmen, steal rice from hungry people, beat bones to get marrow, violently kill; Use not at the same time have questions and answers, set up a guest, mix water and mud, and respond to supplies. If you are a person who exceeds the limit, before you mention it, call to act immediately, there is still a little comparison. Eight blows (eight types of sticks) Eight blows means eight methods of hitting the opponent with sticks, depending on their ability to attain Zen, there are sticks with different content. This fighting style is the most familiar method of Duc Son - Tuyen Giam. For Lam Te, it is more specialized in using screams. However, in terms of fighting style, Lam Te used it not less, he distinguished eight ways of fighting called Bat Bong as follows: Bonus: bonus sticks. Penalty: penalty stroke. Tossing: tossing stick. Winning prize: winning stick. Stupid stupidity: stupid stick. Ghost goods: ghost sticks. Apple accumulating: stick sweeps traces. Accidental levitation: sticks accidentally. These eight types of sticks are used to awaken those who are still confused in meditation practice to bring about complete enlightenment. Koan meditation For the Lam Te sect, the first dialogue or koan is considered the most important method. The other methods such as hitting, shouting, master, and guest are all aimed at a single goal, which is to break the rigid koan block that the practitioner is clinging to. The koan is rooted in the question-and-answer approach, ie question and answer between teacher and student. It is not theoretical, and the answer cannot be based on the basis of perceptual perception, on the concept of discriminating speculation and logic. The koan is not an obscure, confusing, humorous statement, but it has a precise and clear goal: to arouse doubt and push it to the end. occlusion. Koan meditation was not started by Patriarch Lam Te, but this method was widely used and popularized in Lam Te's time in particular as well as in Zen studies in general. In summary, with quite specific meditation teaching methods imbued with Chinese culture, Zen master Lam Te has given Chinese Zen Buddhism a more intense vitality, making it rich, diverse and also no less lively, dared by blows, numbing screams, or dead questions. With these characteristics, the Lam Te Zen sect was introduced into our country. However, the nuances of Chinese Lam Te meditation over time have been intensely tolerated by Vietnamese culture. The essence of Lam Te meditation is still the same, but the method of practicing religion in Vietnam is completely different, this Zen sect gradually adapts and develops strongly to this day. 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