每年冬天,万佛圣城都要“打禅七”。这些长达数周的禅七,每次坐香一小时,接着行香二十分钟,从凌晨三时到午夜十二时,只在傍晚休息一个钟头。在上人耐心地指导下,弟子们慢慢学会了打坐的入门技巧。一到冬天,所有的事情都停了,大家放下工作,全心参加这难得的禅七。
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Every year at the City a Chan Session was held. Sessions were several weeks long, running from 3:00 a.m. until 12:00 midnight with hour-long sits broken by twenty-minute walks. A one hour rest period was allowed in the late afternoon. Under the Master’s patient guidance, his disciples gradually learned the beginning techniques of meditation. Everyone dropped his/her duties to participate fully in these rare sessions. Things came to a standstill in mid-winter as everyone investigated Chan together.
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