Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Who ranged five trees below of Buddha's height?
I come, yet no new work awaits me here!
And so the hermitage, so favorably situated, was called
by our yogi, "The Five Leguminous Tree Hermitage."
These trees have now suffered the destroying hand of
man but in their place five bamboo poles fly their printed
flags of prayers. Now we are there, a few steps climbed, a
back door gently tapped and there is Mr. Chen, his face
round and smiling, welcoming us courteously with little
bows. He motions us to sit in a small room, one of the
two which he rents, and kindly provides us with a little
refreshment before his talk begins.
On this first occasion, it was decided that an outline of
his biography would be a good introduction to his
explanation of practice and realization. At five o'clock
we began, the sounds of a Tibetan bhikshu's puja in a
nearby house drift in through the window, a drum beaten,
a voice lowly chanting….
Let Mr. Chen introduce his own life story:
Autobiography is based on the "I," but in practice no "I"
is found, so why should we deal with it? All that we can
talk about is a certain mass passing through a period of
time and being constantly identified as the same person.
Though I have practiced meditation for more than twenty
years, still no "I" has been discovered; while on the other
hand voidness does not mean nothing. I dare not say that
although I have lived in Kalimpong that any "I" has lived
here and experienced all that time, for all is changing
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