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The door of Ch’an is entered by Wu. When we meditate on Wu we ask “What is Wu?” On entering Wu, we experience emptiness; we are not aware of existence, either ours or the world’s.
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The Future Life | There Is No Suffering
Unresolved karma carries over to the next life through consciousness when birth, the eleventh link, occurs. This allows a sentient being to begin receiving the retribution of the accumulated karma. The twelfth link completes the cycle as aging and death. Of course, all beings begin aging from the moment of birth, and eventually die. However, the individual will repeatedly enter samsara to experience the twelve links, until all existing karma is resolved, and no new karma is created.
To summarize, the twelve links encompass past, present, and future lives, with each link arising out of the previous link. The present life arises because of the previous one, and the future one arises because of the present one, one lifetime leading to another, until the chain is broken. To begin to break the chain of the twelve links of conditioned arising, one can contemplate causes and conditions.
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Venerable Sheng Yen is a well-known Buddhist monk, Buddhist scholar, and educator. In 1969, he went to Japan for further studies and obtained a doctoral degree from Rissho University in 1975, becoming the first ordained monk in Chinese Buddhism to pursue and successfully complete a Ph.D. in Japan.
Sheng Yen taught in the United States starting in 1975, and established Chan Meditation Center in Queens, New York, and its retreat center, Dharma Drum Retreat Center at Pine Bush, New York in 1997. He also visited many countries in Europe, as well as continuing his teaching in several Asian countries, in particular Taiwan.
Sheng Yen taught in the United States starting in 1975, and established Chan Meditation Center in Queens, New York, and its retreat center, Dharma Drum Retreat Center at Pine Bush, New York in 1997. He also visited many countries in Europe, as well as continuing his teaching in several Asian countries, in particular Taiwan.
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