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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘 DAY ONE: Introduction
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/27/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/27/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘 DAY ONE: Introduction

The title, translated as “Faith in Mind” or “Mind of Absolute Trust”, underscores the importance of trusting the direct experience of mind before false views obscure the true mind's inherent perfection.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY TWO
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/26/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/26/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY TWO

Soon, as the notion of a gaining idea dissolves, we settle into practice.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY THREE
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/25/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/25/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY THREE

Release your grip - return to the moment. This is our practice.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY FOUR
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/24/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/24/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY FOUR

If we want to see the Way clearly, it is important to drop all of our conceptions and expectations of it.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY FIVE
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/23/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/23/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY FIVE

Perhaps we might meditate more to cultivate greater equanimity in an effort to attain the True Way. But in doing this, we miss the 'deep meaning' of the Way and our efforts are 'to no purpose'.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY SIX
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/22/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/22/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY SIX

There is no way to describe this - it has to be experienced.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY SEVEN
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/21/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/21/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY SEVEN

Instead, be serene in the oneness of things, savor the full interconnectedness of this present infinite moment, and dualism vanishes by itself.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY EIGHT
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/20/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/20/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY EIGHT

Any attempt to conceptualize the Way creates its antithesis. Thus we tarry in dualism.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY NINE
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/19/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/19/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY NINE

People often try to stress the absolute as a 'right' concept - and dualism as 'wrong'. This is not the nature of oneness.

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SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY TEN
Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/18/21 Shin Jin Mei Sensei Michael, Founder & Abbot 10/18/21

SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY TEN

When we put away wordiness and intellection, the universe opens up and there is nowhere we cannot pass freely. All in this very present moment.

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