Chan-Pracise of Dao Jun Seng Tuan
Self-Enlightenment
Meditation does not know an aim, which is determined by a self-centred intention; no I will, I can, I shall, I may also no hidden aim like: it will, can, shall, may. Meditation goes together with the realization of the law of arising and passing away. Meditation imparts the combining of vitality and getting conscious by attention.
Who is looking for silence doesn’t die, but his organism becomes numb, that means in the motorial motion. This paralysed state is combined with a growing sense of well-being and a dwindling consciousness.
Vitality and getting conscious always looking for equalization balance not for the middle. The middle is fiction, comes from static thinking and is a darkening symbolization by a an abstract will to fix. The middle path is the dynamic Continuum of a clear conscious thinking, speaking acting, it is concentration of vitality which causes calm. Silence is immobility, calm balance of the game of forces. In the last phase of meditation remains force, light, shining and a perfect not confused getting conscious of the law of so-and-no-different-being in the dynamics of life.
The self experience remains in perfect clearness, security, calm and force like (getting) self-consciousness. But because the big dimming of consciousness-clearness, the thinking became still, the aimlessness does not afflict the sentiment. Getting conscious has it’s aim and it is its aim itself: the self experience.
You can not exercise meditation, you can only live it. Exercised meditation makes nervous, lived meditation makes dynamic, powerful, calm, perfect calm with a reliable development of energy in everyday life. Exercised meditation has to make nervous, because it is self-centred and the evolution is blocked.
Self experience is not I-am-thinking. I-am-thinking is madness, an unlimited madness which leads to the mania for always being in the right. Thereby vitality literatim becomes dismembered ground, shattered, split before the achievement of evolution-maturities.
Self experience does not exclude logical thinking, but demands it. I-am-thinking can not be logical, because it puts the wrong premise that is “am”, that means static’s and with that each conclusion must be a priori wrong. To become, that means dynamics. To become is characteristic of thinking and therefore it is aimless. A clear conscious self experience is a symbol, that means a term of certainty: to be is (not I am). I-am-thinking is a symbol of uncertainty: “Am I?” with the ocean of unanswerable questions of doubt, decisions and actions. Who “I” am, no one can say.
Meditation can not be classified. It is a phase of human evolution like the breaking of the voice of a boy. When it is reached, depends on the whole life style. Logical, clear, objective, recognizing and understanding thinking is supposition. Without logic in the strict sense of causality no cognition is possible and without cognition no mind, no character, no attitude, no control of dynamics. Only logical thinking and acting has been run over by dynamics of life, urges into the field of emotions and into lethargical exhaustion.
Meditation is most powerful brain work, which knows no break, except sleep. Meditation is the clock of timelessness, use without wanted to be a clock-maker. It never fails. Meditation is a life-clock without clock-face.
In and out of Dharma, Xue Feng (Shi Yan Cheng)
Translation from Dr. Mao Qingquan
道峻僧团的参禅实践
自省
坐禅冥想的目的决不是由我之所愿所确定的，它不是我愿、我能、我必须、我应该和我可以做什么；坐禅冥想也不是隐藏的目的，诸如：情况要、可以、必须、应该、容许怎么办。坐禅冥想是和对生长消亡规律性的认识相伴而行的。通过注意力的专注，坐禅冥想促进活力和意识过程两者的结合。
寻求静止的人不会死亡，但从外表上看，其机体会僵化，意即其自主运动功能会僵化。这种僵化是和不断加强的舒适感以及不断消失的明确意识相联系的。
活力和意识过程不断地寻求平衡, 而不是寻求中间点。中间点是源自于静态思维的虚构，是概念上的固定企图所致的遮掩性象征化表达。中间道路是明确思维、言谈和举止的动态连续体，是导致宁静而不是导致静止的活力聚集。停止是无运动的状态，而宁静则是各种力量共同作用的和谐平衡。在坐禅冥想的末期，留下的是力量、光明、彻悟，留下的是对生命动力规律性的完完全全的、一清二楚的明确意识，即生命动力就是这样而别无其它可能。
作为自我意识的自我体验在完全的明确、可靠、宁静和力量中得以保留。但由于可以使得意识从清晰变为模糊的思维已经停止，思维的无目的性也不会对感觉造成困扰。这是因为意识有其目的，并且就是其目的本身：体验自我。
人们不能练习参禅冥想，而只能有意识地去体验。训练的参禅冥想使人紧张，而体验的参禅冥想却使人变得有活力而充满力量，在日常生活中精力充沛的同时保持完全的宁静。训练的参禅冥想注定要使人紧张，因为它以自我为中心，从而阻止了渐变。
自我体验不等于我是思维。我是思维是极度愚蠢的，这种思维势比造成自以为是，并由此而实实在在地消磨、吞噬、粉碎和撕裂对渐进的获取。
自我体验不排除逻辑思维，而是要求逻辑思维。由于我是思维的错误前提是静态的“是”，故由此得出的每一结论从头就是错误的。过程，也就是说动态，是思维的特征，所以过程是无目的的。明确意识的自我体验是一种象征，亦即明确的概念：存在（而不是：我是）。我是思维是不明确性概念的象征：浩如烟海的疑问、决定和行为中的“我是不是？”。对我“是”谁这个问题，没人能够回答。
对坐禅冥想不能进行分类。就象男孩发育期的声变一样，坐禅冥想是人渐进中的一个时期。什么时候到达这一时期，取决于一个人的整体生活方式，必要前提是合乎逻辑的、明确的、客观的、有识别和理解能力的思维。没有在严格意义上讲的因果关系逻辑，就谈不上认知；没有认知，就谈不上思想品质、性格、态度以及对活力的控制。逻辑思维和行为将被生活的活力所淹没，并由此受到情感的制约而冷漠衰竭。
坐禅冥想是除了睡眠之外，一刻也不停顿的强力脑力劳动。坐禅冥想是永恒的钟表，使用它，而不必去当钟表匠。它永不停歇。坐禅冥想是一个没有表盘的生命之钟。
雪峰 (释延承)
