A Chan lifestyle is the foundation to good health, clear mind and happiness. Do we know that? Of course. Could we live like that? Hmm, probably not, because we have difficulty in surviving from the detoxification phase. "What?", you may ask.
Shut up. Sit Down. Stop Thinking with full lotus on a hard floor offers no reward whatsoever. It is just a long pause for our internal desires to surface so that we can conquer them. The beginning phases of Chan meditation is nothing but a detoxification phase for us to surpass our habitual comforts and our habitual judgments.
Only after we are successfully winning over some of ourselves, then we are able to gradually wake up from our own dreams. So that we have enough sensitivity to know the true needs of our body, mind and spirit, and act accordingly.
Only then we are able to live a life of health, harmony and happiness.
