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Chan Master Sheng Yen, from His Closing Remarks to the Women Faith Lead- Ers Retreat, Dharma Drum Mountain, June, 2006 ompassion of the third level “Chas no object to which it is directed. There is no purpose or goal...no idea of contribution...one goes wherever and whenever there is a need. One does one’s best, within one’s ability, to help the per- son in need. When the need is ful- filled, then in one’s mind, there is no trace. It is like a boat travelling through the water – there is no trace left after the wake of the boat .” – Chan Master Sheng Yen, from his closing remarks to the Women Faith Lead- ers Retreat, Dharma Drum Mountain, June, 2006. Autumn 2006 Chan Magazine 1 Chan Magazine Volume 23,26, Number 4 Autumn, 20032006 Chan Magazine is published quarterly by the Institute of Chung-Hwa BuddhistBuddhist Culture, Culture, Chan Chan Meditation Meditation Center, Center, 90- 90-5656 Corona Corona Avenue, Avenue, Elmhurst, Elmhurst, NY NY 11373. 11373. The The magazine magazine is isa non-profita non-profit venture; venture; it accepts it accepts no advertisingno advertising and isand sup- is supportedported solely solely by contributionsby contributions from frommembers members of the of Chan the ChanCenter Center and the and readership. the readership. Donations Donations to support to support the maga- the magazinezine and otherand other Chan Chan Center Center activities activities may maybe sent be sentto the to theabove above address address and and will will be begratefully gratefully appreciated. appreciated. Please Your donationmake checks is tax-deductible. payable to Chan For Meditationinformation Center;about Chanyour Centerdonation activities is tax-deductible. please call (718)For information 592-6593. Forabout Dharma Chan DrumCenter Publicationsactivities please please call call(718) (718) 592-6593. 592-0915. For DharmaE-mail theDrum Center Publications at [email protected], please call (718) or 592-0915. the magazine E-mail at [email protected],the Center at [email protected], or visit us or online the magazine at: at http://[email protected], or visit us online at: http://www.chancenter.org. Founder/Teacher Founder/TeacherChan Master Ven. Dr. Sheng Yen Chan Master Ven. Dr. Sheng Yen Editor-in-chief Editor-in-chiefDavid Berman David Berman Coordinator CoordinatorVirginia Tan Virginia Tan News editor PhotographyBelia Pena John Feng, Jerry Roach Photography ContributingDavid Kabacinski editors (Chang Wen) Ernie Heau, Kevin Mathewson, Virginia Tan, Wei Tan, ContributingSheila Sussman editors Ernie Heau, Chris Marano, Virginia Tan, Wei Tan Contributors ContributorsRikki Asher, Lynda Holland, Jeffrey Kung, Rebecca Li, RikkiMike Morical,Asher, Berle Bruce Driscoll, Rickenbacker, Jeffrey Kung,Wei Tan, Rebecca Tan Yee Li, WongChar- lotte(Chang Mansfield, Ji Shi) Mike Morical, Bruce Rickenbacker, Wei Tan, Tan Yee Wong (Chang Ji) Administrator AdministratorChang Wu Fa Shi Guo Chen Shi Chan Magazine Autumn 2006 Autumn 2006 Chan Magazine 2 3 Chan Magazine Volume 23, Number 4 Autumn, 2003 Chan Magazine is published quarterly by the Institute of Chung-Hwa Buddhist Culture, Chan Meditation Center, 90-56 Corona Avenue, Elmhurst, NY 11373. The magazine is a non-profit venture; it accepts no advertising and is From the Editor 4 supported solely by contributions from members of the Chan Center and the readership. Donations to support the magazine and other Chan Center activities may be sent to The Four Steps to Magical Power 6 the above address and will be gratefully appreciated. Your donation is tax-deductible. For information about Chan The first of two lectures on the third group of practices Center activities please call (718) 592-6593. For Dharma known together as the Thirty-Seven Aids to Drum Publications please call (718) 592-0915. E-mail Enlightenment, by Chan Master Sheng Yen the Center at [email protected], or the magazine at [email protected], or visit us online at: http://www.chancenter.org. Wind At Rest 11 Poem by Chang Wen Shi Founder/Teacher Chan Master Ven. Dr. Sheng Yen Editor-in-chief Life Koans and Retreat Experience 12 David Berman Part two of a Dharma talk given at the Chan Meditation Center in Elmhurst, NY by Dr. John Crook Coordinator Virginia Tan Compassionate Mind, News editor Compassionate World 21 Belia Pena The 2006 Women Faith Leaders Retreat: Photography Closing Remarks by Chan Master Sheng Yen; David Kabacinski (Chang Wen) Report by Rebecca Li Contributing editors Ernie Heau, Chris Marano, Virginia Tan, Wei Tan The Past 26 Contributors News from the Chan Meditation Center and DDMBA Rikki Asher, Berle Driscoll, Jeffrey Kung, Rebecca Li, Char- lotte Mansfield, Mike Morical, Bruce Rickenbacker, Wei The Future 32 Tan, Tan Yee Wong (Chang Ji) Retreats, classes, and other upcoming events Administrator Guo Chen Shi Chan Center Affi liates 34 Chan Magazine Autumn 2006 Autumn 2006 Chan Magazine 2 3 From The Editor The Ng Fook (“Five Good Fortunes”) Funeral Toih Saan village. “Wow!” recent immigrants Home on Mulberry Street shares the block from Toih Saan would say when they heard with the Cheung Sang (“Long Life”) and Wah his Cantonese, “I haven’t heard that dialect Wing Sang (“Eternal Life”) funeral corps. since my grandfather died.” Funeral homes have dominated this south- ernmost block of Mulberry for generations, Ng Fook is known for its sensitivity to tradi- though they were Italian before they were tion – not only the difference between Western Chinese – Ng Fook, prior to 1976, was Baci- and Chinese funerary traditions but the dif- galupi. ferences between one village’s and another’s – and Shung’s family has taken care that his I’ve been here before – Ng Fook was the funeral properly represent his standing, his site of sevices, in 1988, for my Si Gung (my heritage, the expectations of his community gongfu teacher’s teacher, usually rendered and extended family. The traditions followed “Grandmaster,” though that’s an aggrandiz- include many sequences of three bows and ing translation – it really means a si, teacher, offerings of incense, the careful arrangement who is genealogically speaking like a gung, of immediate family members by generation grandfather, being from two generations and seniority, the burning of offerings (a way prior.) of sending them into the spirit world), our turning our backs to the grave as the coffin This time I’m here for the funeral of one of is lowered, our receipt of a sweet and a lucky the dearest people I’ve ever known – Shung coin as we leave the gravesite. Lee, who lived for over 80 years around the corner on Mott Street, in the same apartment And they include a brass band – a decid- in which his father had practiced calligraphy, edly Italian brass band – four guys – two and written poetry, and waited for our gov- trumpets, a trombone and a snare – in blue ernment to allow his wife to immigrate, and uniforms with hats – playing mostly 19th- in which Shung and his family, with their century hymns, in march time, punctuated by great generosity, had always made me so an occasional musical reference, like “Off We welcome. Go, Into the Wild Blue Yonder” to represent Shung’s service in the Army Air Corps during Shung was truly a pillar of his community, World War II. not in the sense of having great power or influence, but in that he was the patriarch of This is not exactly new to me – I spent the a family that embodied the entire history of eighties and nineties more in Chinatown than New York’s Chinatown, including elements of out, and I’ve seen and heard this before – but Chinese history that had been long lost in the somehow my intimacy with Shung and his homeland. Shung was a native New Yorker family makes me want to understand it bet- down to his accent, but he spoke the very par- ter than I do. I’m sure I’ve seen this kind of ticular Cantonese his father had brought from band in films of post-war Sicily – at times the Chan Magazine Autumn 2006 Autumn 2006 Chan Magazine 4 5 upbeat tempo makes me think of New Orleans And perhaps it’s unimportant. Whatever – I assume it has something to do with the the causes and conditions were, the karmic proximity of Little Italy to Chinatown, but I’ve consequence is here in front of me in all its never noticed much cultural cross-pollenation complexity. The Buddhist bows, the Confu- between those two communities before...I cian hierarchies, the Christian hymns all want to know more. So when the musicians function perfectly to facilitate the grief of this go on break, I go and talk to them. Chinese-American family with the Western in-laws and their stunningly beautiful hybrid I don’t learn much; basically, they confirm children and grandchildren. By the time we what I already know. Yes, it’s Italian – one of sit down to lunch, nearly a hundred of us, in the musicians knows of this tradition in Ca- the neighborhood restaurant below the apart- labria. Yes, it’s a borrowing from Little Italy, ment, it’s tangible how much better everyone from the days when the Chinese needed to feels. The rituals, wherever they came from, be buried but the Italians still owned all the have done their work. funeral homes. I learn that it’s not unique to * * * New York – one of the guys in the band has PLEASE NOTE: Chan Magazine has played in Chinatown San Francisco as well. changed its e-mail address. From now on But that’s all they know – the story of when please e-mail us at: and how this Italian branch was grafted onto [email protected] this Chinese rootstock planted in American We’ll continue to check for mail at the old soil may just be lost.
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