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15Apr/21

Editing the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 4

04/15/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

“Enlightening beings who strengthen their commitment to enlightenment must do so by helping beings become committed to enlightenment. This state of mind is neither form nor perspective; such a Dharma is unattainable. Why? It is because beings are empty.”

05Apr/21

Reviewing the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 3

04/05/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

1. Read over your work for the second, third, or more times. However, immediately after you finish translating may not be most helpful. Give it a day to a week, and after more meditating, before you re-read your draft translation. You will have changes you will want to make.

22Mar/21

Drafting the Translation: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 2

03/22/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

2. Get ready to be creative and focused. For the first draft, be ready to be a writer more than anything else. Don’t stop. Keep going. When you encounter a hurdle, enter the Chinese, add your questions, comments, and/or alternative translations. Come back to these later though -- during the review and editing stages.

18Mar/21

Preparing to Translate: Buddhist Sacred Text Translation – Chinese to English How To Series 1

03/18/2021translation, translation theory, Uncategorizedcanonical text, Chinese, English, translation, tripitakaTCN

Preparation before translating: 1. Meditate, access inherent nature of wisdom and compassion. Allow your inner guide to lead you to the right text and words. And meditate whenever you need some guidance and help anywhere along the way.

02Mar/18

50 Meditation States You Must Let Go (Part I: Form)

03/02/2018buddhism, meditation, Uncategorizedaggregate, buddhism, enlightenment, meditation, sage, shurangama, skandhaTCN

Along your path of practice, you will encounter some interesting physical, mental, and spiritual phenomena. In meditation, you may feel parts of your body shake uncontrollably, you may sense heat circulate through or grow in parts of you, you may have visions, you may hear voices, you may be one with the world. Know that even more meditation experiences await you as you deepen your regular practice. You must also remember that these states of being are transitory signs pointing to an intensive and advancing practice, not ultimate enlightenment. Hence for each experience the same refrain about being relentless with continued awareness, avoiding the derailing belief that you are now awakened, a sage. Here is List I of 10 states associated with the form aggregate among the 50 for the 5 aggregates.

25Jan/18

24 Reasons for Choosing Listening as an Enlightening Practice

01/25/2018avalokiteshvara, buddhism, listening, meditation, shurangama, Uncategorized, wisdomawareness, buddhism, listening, meditation, sage, shurangama, wisdomTCN

Listening by contemplating on the source of the ear organ is the recommended practice for this era because only sound can be heard through walls and all around. You can practice all hours of the day; even while you’re asleep or deep in a dream, you can hear sounds, including the sound of silence. The sound of silence is a sound with a source in you who hear. You first notice sounds in movement and stillness, then you realize that the object of sound neither comes into being nor ceases. Instead of listening to the wisdom of others, why not listen to that which listens? Contemplate: who is it that listens? Listen until even listening ceases.

09Mar/17

6 Buddhist Antidotes to Suffering

03/09/2017buddhism, dharma, meditation, suffering, Uncategorizedantidote, being, buddhism, compassion, healing, meditation, misery, pain, practice, sufferingTCN

Since evicted from a U.S. monastic order about eight years ago, I have been told many times that I suffer because of my karma, bad karma. Often this sentiment is coming from those I presume to be perpetrating intentional harm. This sentiment also becomes a sort of shaming and humiliation…

17May/14

A Glaring Void: The Possibilities for Buddhist Translation Theories to Emerge in the English-Speaking World

05/17/2014UncategorizedTCN

Abstract for an upcoming presentation. Leave a comment if you have any thoughts or suggestions. Presently no coherent translation theories exist for Buddhist translators from Chinese to English. What elements might a Buddhist translation theorist in the predominantly Christian West consider and integrate as she gleams sacred text translation…

10May/14

Just Meditate!

05/10/2014UncategorizedTCN

“On Sitting Meditation: An Inscription” Excerpted from Admonitions for Monastics By Meditation Master Buddha Eye Qingyuan, of Longmen The light of the mind shines in emptiness; its substance transcends extremes and pervades all. The light of the mind is like golden waves lapping, for the mind is always in deep…

18Feb/10

An Antidote for Too Much Thinking: Breathing Exercises

02/18/2010UncategorizedTCN

(Extrapolated from the Sitting Dhyana Samadhi Sutra) For beginners, focus on counting your breaths from one to ten. For more advanced practitioners, follow the breaths and count from one to ten, but stop thinking when breathing pauses. For the most advanced practitioners, count while pausing and contemplating; the practice becomes…