PART X - PRACTICAL METHODS

An old saying goes: Master one complete method of practice, and all methods become clear.

When you practise one path thoroughly, other koans and teachings begin to illuminate themselves. It is like reaching the summit of a mountain: you realise that every route beneath your feet-whether winding or straight, rugged or smooth-leads to the same single peak.

The Way is not found in the number of methods, but in the depth of your embodiment. When the mind truly settles; when the breath merges with all things; when you see your own nature-then every action, every breath, every footstep becomes meditation, a road home.

So you do not need to do everything. Choose one path-one method, one form of practice that your heart feels closest to-and walk with it all the way to the end. When the mind brightens, you will see that methods were never separate at all: they are simply different roads on the same journey of remembering who you are.

And if you wish to blend several approaches-meditation, yoga, visualisation, prayer, or art-that is also fine. All of them can support one another, clarifying and deepening the return Home.

What matters is not the outer form, but wholehearted presence in each moment. One mindful breath can be deeper than a thousand recited scriptures. One act of compassion can open more than ten thousand hours of meditation.

When a method is taken all the way through, all methods reveal themselves in the light of the One. And then there is no practitioner and no method-only Life, practising itself.

"Without awakening, the Buddha is a sentient being; but within a single thought of awakening, a sentient being is Buddha. Therefore, know that all dharmas are within one's own Mind."

- Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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