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| | Amazon.com: Swampland flowers: Letters and lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui [i.e. Tsung-kao] ; translated by Christopher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Ta-hui's words of advice centre around the 'hua-tou' practice which he devised as a 'short-cut' method, although it wouldn't do to take that too literally, as in 'instant coffee' or the 'fast-fix.' It is evident from the 'drift' of the letters that Ta-hui expected his lay followers to exert themselves. |
 | | The inspiring - and surprising thing, about Ta-hui's instruction, is that far from bemoaning the limitations of lay-life, he even makes the practice of the commited lay-Buddhist seem advantageous.As Ta Hui put it, the Buddhist monk has to 'break through' from the outside-in, whereas the lay-Buddhist has to 'break through' from the inside-out. |
 | | With scrupulous honesty, Ta-hui conceded that the monastic life lacks pressure, and in that sense, the motivation to see the practice through, can be weak. |
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