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Institute of Religious Studies - The History of Buddhism Today 2
The Vietnamese Zen teaching traces its origin to Zen Master Tang Hoi in the middle of the third century—the first monk who founded Kien So Temple in the state of Wu, transmitting Vietnamese Zen to China three hundred years before Bodhidharma. The preface to his Anapanasati Sutra mentions Luoyang and Giao Chau, showing that the Southern Zen lineage widely continued the spirit of the Northern tradition. The Plum Village Dharma door faithfully transmits that tradition, holding that in Vietnamese temples, Zen Master Tang Hoi should be venerated as the patriarch of Vietnamese Zen, not Bodhidharma.
The practice of meditation is not merely theory but is a study of the mind, with the foundation being the seeds of wisdom, enlightenment, compassion, and love lying deep in the store consciousness, the Alaya-vijnana. When we water those seeds, we wash away delusion, hatred, misunderstanding, and realize that
- Buddha nature is the clear wisdom and boundless love available in each person
- The Dharma body, unborn and undying, is present right in our mind, not in a sitting statue or a distant Pure Land
- Practicing interbeing, impermanence, non-self, one is all, all is one, allows us to look deeply into the Pure Land of the present moment in every flower, cloud, sheet of paper, or matchbox
- Practicing deep listening helps to transform hatred, build peace and happiness in ourselves and in society.
