Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Chan in one's daily life is very deep. How so? It is like
this:
1. First one must get entry into the "area" of Chan.
2. Then one must get out of the "area" of Chan.
3. Then, and only then, Chan functions in daily life.
4. The process ends when all is reduced into the nature
of Chan, without any function.
This classification given here is according to the one
adopted in my book, "Lighthouse in the Ocean of
Chan."
Mr. Chen sagely warned:
Nowadays, many Western persons like the idea of Chan
in daily life.
(The transcriber remembers being told in a
Buddhist Society by one young man with no
meditational experience, who was stacking chairs in
the lecture hall, "This is Zen, you know!") Mr. Chen
pointed out:
Unless one has passed through sunyata-sublimation, one
cannot possibly have accomplished the first two stages
above, so how can one come to the third?
Mr. Chen gave a simple test which all can apply to
find out exactly where they stand in this matter of
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