A compilation of Zen teacher Anzan Hoshin Roshi's teachings

 Also See: Zen Master Ven Jinmyo Renge Sensei's Teachings

A compilation of Zen teacher Anzan Hoshin Roshi's teachings I copied from available articles posted in white wind zen community website https://wwzc.org/

Link to compilation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zblrlvdixpg1dqo699kxb/Anzan-Hoshin-Roshi-Compilation.pdf?rlkey=lyc50508xvovwm9be9me3dgcs&dl=0

Anzan Hoshin Roshi is the teacher of Ven. Jinmyo Renge sensei, whose teachings John and I also liked.

Those interested in receiving their teachings can join the long distance training program https://wwzc.org/long-distance-training-program

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Also posted this recently in AtR Blog:
Seamlessness
John, Yin Ling and I enjoyed some writings I shared from Soto Zen teacher Anzan Hoshin Roshi, who is also Ven Jinmyo Osho's teacher.
Here's an excerpt from his book Intimate Reality which you can purchase from https://wwzc.org/intimate-reality
SEVEN: Seamlessness
“When the ten thousand dharmas move forward and practice and realize the self, this is awakening.”
Just for this moment: be right where you are, be just as you are. Release all of this pushing and pulling, this subject and object. Don’t fall into pushing against the pushing to get rid of it. Simply don’t push. Just sit. Release this pushing and pulling even slightly, for just one moment, and you will find that something begins to happen. The moment begins to exert itself as the sights and sounds, touch and taste, smells and thoughts and feelings.
You will discover that seeing has its own intelligence which presents itself as the green of leaves, the grey and blue and white of the clouds, the vast blue of the sky. Hearing has its own intelligence. All of the senses are open and the body is alive and knowing itself as the world.
Stand up and take a step. Another step. Each step exerts itself completely and then is gone. The moment exerts itself completely and then is gone, without a trace. There is no trace of that step in this step. There is just this step. There is just hearing, just seeing, just knowing. The ten thousand dharmas exert themselves completely and without effort.
You can grasp at whatever you want to, but there is nowhere that anything is separate from you so that you can take hold of it. Everything arises within the seamlessness of experience. If we enter yet further into this moment and enter directly into the exertion of these ten thousand dharmas, enter directly into how Awareness displays itself as what it is aware of, then something else begins to make itself clear. There aren’t “ten thousand” dharmas. There isn’t even “one” dharma either. There’s just this. This is the moment of dropping body and mind.
Well, where are these “bodies” and “minds” now? Someone, please, show me your body. How would you know about the body if not through the mind? The “body” is perceived by the mind. Is there an itch? A colour? A sound? You look at your hands, you move your thumb, wiggle your fingers. These are all just perceptions arising, dwelling and decaying. Your “body” is all in the mind. Now, where is this “mind”? There is this seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, thinking and feeling — but where is the “mind”? Someone, please, show me your mind.
When there is no separation, no distance to be closed between yourself and your experience, then where are you? The sound of a hammer, the sound of your breath. When there is just this there is no room for a body, no mind, no time, no space. There is just Open Luminosity which can sometimes look like a body, a mind. Everything is released, everything is dropped, everything rises up as it is, everything leaps into and out of itself. In this moment is the arising of all world-systems, in this moment is the vanishing of all world-systems.
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I want to compile all of Ven Jinmyo Osho's teachings from website's articles into a pdf file too. If someone wants to volunteer please do so, otherwise will have to wait until I find time
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Guo Ru Fa Shi 果如法师

Recently I visited Zen Master Guo Ru Fa Shi 果如法师's monastery (祖師禪林Chan Grove) in Tai Pei, he is the dharma successor of Ven Sheng Yen, and he learned from both Ven Sheng Yen and Ven Dong Chu. 

I looked through his books his shelves (many seem to not be available on bookstores, but this one is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/%E7%A6%AA%E7%9A%84%E7%9F%A5%E8%A6%8B-%E7%82%BA%E5%8F%83%E8%A9%B1%E9%A0%AD%E5%81%9A%E6%BA%96%E5%82%99-%E7%B2%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%89%88-Traditional-Chinese-ebook/dp/B09158YFMJ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2U80U6SHUPQP9&keywords=%E6%9E%9C%E5%A6%82&qid=1699162147&sprefix=%E6%9E%9C%E5%A6%82%E6%B3%95%E5%B8%88%2Caps%2C277&sr=8-3 , but there are really fabulous excerpts in his other books available only in his monastery, you will have to visit the monastery and get the books from there (by donation basis and amount is up to you))



His realisation is deep into anatman, dependent origination and emptiness. I would say his depth of realization is similar to Hui Lu Fa Shi and Hong Wen Liang.


Taiwan is blessed with deeply realised masters throughout the island.

Guo Ru Fa Shi 果如法师 in Taipei, Hong Wen Liang 洪文亮 in Taichung, and Hui Lu Fa Shi 慧律法师 in Kaohsiung.


Chinese speakers should try to learn from them and attend some of their retreats if possible. Another one is Zen Master Chi Chern 繼程法師  who lives in Malaysia, who also has deep realisation.


最近我参观了位于台北的果如法师的寺院(祖師禪林Chan Grove)，他是圣严法师的法脉继承者，曾经跟圣严法师和东初法师学习。

在他的书架上，我发现了许多书籍，有些在外面的书店似乎难以找到。果如法师目前只有一本可以在亚马逊找到 （https://www.amazon.com/%E7%A6%AA%E7%9A%84%E7%9F%A5%E8%A6%8B-%E7%82%BA%E5%8F%83%E8%A9%B1%E9%A0%AD%E5%81%9A%E6%BA%96%E5%82%99-%E7%B2%BE%E8%8F%AF%E7%89%88-Traditional-Chinese-ebook/dp/B09158YFMJ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2U80U6SHUPQP9&keywords=%E6%9E%9C%E5%A6%82&qid=1699162147&sprefix=%E6%9E%9C%E5%A6%82%E6%B3%95%E5%B8%88%2Caps%2C277&sr=8-3 ），但是在他的寺院里，我还发现了其他书籍中的一些精彩内容，这些只能在那里才能找到。

他对无我、缘起和空性的证悟极为深邃。我认为他的悟性深度与慧律法师和洪文亮相似。

台湾人很有幸:全岛遍布了诸多如此深刻悟性的大师。

在台北的果如法师、台中的洪文亮，以及高雄的慧律法师，都是值得尊敬的师资。

如果有机会，讲中文的朋友们应该向他们学习，并尽可能参加他们主办的静修。马来西亚的继程法师同样是位具有深刻悟性的禅师。

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Seamlessness

John, Yin Ling and I enjoyed some writings I shared from Soto Zen teacher Anzan Hoshin Roshi, who is also Ven Jinmyo Osho's teacher.

Here's an excerpt from his book Intimate Reality which you can purchase from https://wwzc.org/intimate-reality


SEVEN: Seamlessness


“When the ten thousand dharmas move forward and practice and realize the self, this is awakening.”
Just for this moment: be right where you are, be just as you are. Release all of this pushing and pulling, this subject and object. Don’t fall into pushing against the pushing to get rid of it. Simply don’t push. Just sit. Release this pushing and pulling even slightly, for just one moment, and you will find that something begins to happen. The moment begins to exert itself as the sights and sounds, touch and taste, smells and thoughts and feelings.


You will discover that seeing has its own intelligence which presents itself as the green of leaves, the grey and blue and white of the clouds, the vast blue of the sky. Hearing has its own intelligence. All of the senses are open and the body is alive and knowing itself as the world.


Stand up and take a step. Another step. Each step exerts itself completely and then is gone. The moment exerts itself completely and then is gone, without a trace. There is no trace of that step in this step. There is just this step. There is just hearing, just seeing, just knowing. The ten thousand dharmas exert themselves completely and without effort.


You can grasp at whatever you want to, but there is nowhere that anything is separate from you so that you can take hold of it. Everything arises within the seamlessness of experience. If we enter yet further into this moment and enter directly into the exertion of these ten thousand dharmas, enter directly into how Awareness displays itself as what it is aware of, then something else begins to make itself clear. There aren’t “ten thousand” dharmas. There isn’t even “one” dharma either. There’s just this. This is the moment of dropping body and mind.


Well, where are these “bodies” and “minds” now? Someone, please, show me your body. How would you know about the body if not through the mind? The “body” is perceived by the mind. Is there an itch? A colour? A sound? You look at your hands, you move your thumb, wiggle your fingers. These are all just perceptions arising, dwelling and decaying. Your “body” is all in the mind. Now, where is this “mind”? There is this seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, thinking and feeling — but where is the “mind”? Someone, please, show me your mind.


When there is no separation, no distance to be closed between yourself and your experience, then where are you? The sound of a hammer, the sound of your breath. When there is just this there is no room for a body, no mind, no time, no space. There is just Open Luminosity which can sometimes look like a body, a mind. Everything is released, everything is dropped, everything rises up as it is, everything leaps into and out of itself. In this moment is the arising of all world-systems, in this moment is the vanishing of all world-systems.

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