CH'AN GUILD OF HUI NENG (CGHN) - 慧能禅宗协会

[Shi Da Dao]

CH'AN GUILD OF HUI NENG (CGHN)

This initiative has been agreed by the China Office of the ICBI which does not, as yet, have a net presence. It is run by a Collective of Lay and Monastic Ch'an Masters inaccordance with current Chinese Law. This transcends the outdated feudal practice of one person dominating many. The ICBI UK Office fully supports this initiative.

Definiton of the Ch'an Guild of Hui Neng

The Ch'an Guild of Hui Neng (CGHN) is a spiritual organisation (officially endorsed by the International Ch’an Buddhism Institute) that advocates the practice of Patriarch’s Ch’an as taught by the 6th Ch’an Patriarch Da Jian Hui Neng (大鑒惠能) 638–713 of the Tang Dynasty, whose mummified body is still upright in a temple in China today. The principle text for this study is the Altar (or Platform) Sutra. In this teaching Hui Neng describes the ‘sudden’ path to enlightenment, and explains that the six sense consciousnesses remain pure and clean even when interacting with the world. To achieve this, the hua tou must be used to discipline the mind and return all sensory data back to its origination in the mind. The Patriarch’s Ch’an is different from (but acts complimentary to) the Tathagata’s Ch’an of the teaching school. The Patriarch’s Ch’an does not set-up levels or distinctions, but like an arrow to the target, cuts through the veil of phenomena here and now, that obscures the empty mind ground from direct perception.

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