Dharma Talks

Gateway to Son(Ch'an)

Venerable Master Hye-Am's Dharma Talks

* Prolegomena
* How to Study Kong-an
* True Prayer
* The Original Face
* Re-Examination Is the Faith
* What to Love

 * Introduction 

* Bodhidharma : On Lineage

1. No Buddha-Nature Outside of the Mind
2. Confused Mind Cannot Be Free from Karmic Result
3. Reason Net to Respect the Buddha-Statue
4. Tao Has Nothing to do with Being Priest or Layperson
5. Even Butcher Can Attain the Buddhahood

* Bodhidharma : On Mind Watching

1. Watch Your Mind
2.A. Mind Motives of the Pure and Tainted Dharma
2.B. True Mind Is Not Disclosed because of Delusion
2.C. Good Dharma Is the Root of Enlightening
3.A. Evil Dharma Is the Root of Three Poisonous Minds
3.B. Original Face of Six Thieves
4.A. Cut Out the Three Poisons
4.B. Three Different Cosmos Enlightenment Gives You Freedom from
5. Confusion Creates the Six Branches
6. By Three Poisonous Minds, a Centillion Number of Things Appear
7. Further Elucidation of Three Immaculate Precepts and Six Paramitas
8. Pure Mind; Pure Buddha Country
9. Further Explanation of the Six Paramitas
10. Milk of Truth
11. What Is Church?
12. Casting the Image of Buddha
13. What Are the Five Incenses?
14. How to Scatter the Flowers?
15. What Is Lighting the Candle?
16. How to Operate the Tao?
17. How to Discipline Body and Mind
18. What Is the Propper Nourishment?
19. What Is Fasting?
20. What Is True Prayer?
21. What Is Bathing?
22. What Is Chanting?
23. Gathered Forms Returning to the Mind
24. Do Not Fallaciously Build Buddha-Statue of Temple
25. Final Advice on Mind-Watching

 * Pojo : Golden Teaching of the Mind Cultivation

1. Disclose What Is True by Exposing the Sufferings
2. Cultivation of Tao by Confused Mind Wouldn't Be Benificial
3. Sage and Ordinary Beings Are on the Same Path; Just Enlighten a Mind
4. Even Though This One Thing Is with Indigent-Being in Everyday Movement, They Do Not Understand It
5. The Ancient Sages Clearly Proved It
6. Cultivating Should Be Followed after Enlightening: the Miraculous Work Cannot Emerge Immediately
7. Enlighten Initially and Cultivate Gradually
8. To Look for an Expedient for Awakening is Wrong
9. Beholding Directly the Empty, Tranquil, and Divine Self-Gnostic Perception
10. Directly Pointing Out that the Humman Mind Is What Buddha Is
11. Directly Pointing Out the Entrance by Which Avalokita(Perceiving the Sound) Was Enlightened
12. Cultivate Yourself
13. Re-explanation of Gradual Cultivation after Enlightenment
14. Exposing the True Serenity (samadhi) and Wisdom (prajna)
15. Mutual Exposition of the Serenity and Wisdom
16. Conclusion of Encouraging the Cultivation

 * Pojo : Sublime Functioning of True Mind

1. True Mind-Right Faith
2. True Mind and Its Many Names
3. The Sublime Essence of the True Mind
4. Sublime Functioning of True Mind
5. Are the Essence and Function of the True Mind Same or Different?
6. True Mind Lives with Confusion
7. The True Mind Does Not Have Deluded Confusion
8. The Four Conduct-Modes of the True Mind
9. Where the True Mind Is
10. The True Mind Does Not Perish
11. Primary and Secondary Motives of the True Mind
12. Virtue and Merit of the True Mind
13. Experience and Re-examination of the True Mind
14. True Mind Has no Knowledge
15. Where the True Mind Goes