Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday Better
Religion & Spirituality:Buddhism
In this episode, I welcome back Rebecca Li to talk about her new book, Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No Method. Rebecca and I had a conversation in May of 2021, about her previous book, Allow Joy into Our Hearts: Chan Practice in Uncertain Times.
Rebecca is a meditation and Dharma teacher in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen and founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community, a Chan Buddhist practice and study community made up of individuals committed to cultivating wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
Rebecca has two decades of Dharma and meditation teaching experience, leading retreats or teaching at Buddhist centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. She has been featured in several Buddhist publications, including Tricycle, Lion's Roar, and Buddhadharma.
She is also one of the founding board members of The GenX Buddhist Teachers Sangha where she continues to serve as a board member. Rebecca is a sociology professor and lives with her husband in New Jersey.
In Allow Joy into Our Hearts, Rebecca wrote about Chan Practice and she continues to teach the path of Chan Buddhism in the book we will discuss today, Illumination. In Illumination, she dives deeper into the Chan meditation of Silent Illumination and deeper still into what causes our suffering and how Silent Illumination can help us identify and help decrease the causes of our suffering.
In her book, Rebecca takes us on a fascinating, deep-dive into the method of no method in silent illumination and guides us in the mechanics of this type of practice. In our conversation we talked about, among other things:
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Everyday Buddhism 49 - A Missing Future with David Farley
Everyday Buddhism 48 - Announcing the Everyday Buddhism Lecture Series on Mindful Writing
Everyday Buddhism 47 - Building a Resilience Bank Account
Everyday Buddhism 46 - 6 Steps for Coping with Uncertainty with Gregg Krech
Everyday Buddhism 45 - We're All in the Same Storm But Not in the Same Boat
Everyday Buddhism 44 - Chaos and Order: Personal Reflections, Poetry, and Chaos Theory
Everyday Buddhism 43 - Awakening to the Ordinary with Dr. Christiane Michelberger
Everyday Buddhism 42 - How Not to Feel Like a Victim
Everyday Buddhism 41 - American Sutra with Duncan Williams
Everyday Buddhism 40 - Covid-19 Mind Protection
Everyday Buddhism 39 - Let's Not Talk About Politics
Everyday Buddhism 38 - And Yet, And Yet
Everyday Buddhism 37 - Pragmatic Buddhism with Ken McLeod
Everyday Buddhism 36 - Random New Year's Thoughts
Everyday Buddhism 35 - Bodhi Day: The Light is Inside!
Everyday Buddhism 34 - The Book is Here! Book Launch Special
Everyday Buddhism 33 - Halloween: What Scares You? What Masks Do You Wear?
Everyday Buddhism 32 - Buddhism, Baseball, and Life
Everyday Buddhism 31 - The Boundless Heart: Bodhicitta
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