Buddhadharma: No Shortcut to Awakening

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No Shortcut to Awakening

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 1:41PM    Editor in Fall 2014

 

Excerpted from the Fall 2014 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, available on newsstands and by subscription.

Ross Bolleter guides us through the Cycle of Merit, the ancient Chan master Dongshan’s map showing us the way to enlightenment and back to where we are.

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Ross Bolleter Roshi is a teacher in the Diamond sangha tradition and a dharma successor of Robert Aitken and John Tarrant. He is the senior teacher of Zen Group of Western Australia in Perth. This teaching is adapted from The Five Ranks of Dongshan, published by Wisdom Publications, 2014.

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