Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment.
The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan.
Typical ones are What is wu nothingness]? or What was my original face before birth-and-death? But a huatou is unlike a koan in that the aim is not to come up with an answer.
The practice is simple: ask yourself your huatou relentlessly, in meditation as well as in every other activity.
Don't .
| Simple | Ask yourself your huatou relentlessly in meditation as well as in every other activity |
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Shambhala Shattering the great doubt: the chan practice of huatou, paperback/sheng yen
