Faith in Mind

Here, Master Sheng Yen offers a guide to Chan practice based on the famous text "Faith in Mind" by Seng Ts'an. "I did not adopt a scholarly point of view or analytical approach," he says, "rather I use the poem as a taking-off point to inspire the practitioner and to deal with issues that arise during the course of practice. The phrase 'faith in mind' contains the two meanings of 'believing in' and 'realizing' the mind. True faith in mind is the belief grounded in realization that we have a fundamental, unmoving, and unchanging mind. This mind is precisely Buddha mind."