Ep267: American Chan Master - Gilbert M Gutierrez
Gilbert M Gutierrez is a Chan Buddhism teacher and a dharma heir of Master Sheng Yen.
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Gilbert recounts his early childhood mystical and meditation experiences, his deep-dive into closed-door internal martial arts and nei gong systems, and the special abilities he unlocked along the way.
Gilbert describes the unusual circumstances leading up to meeting Taiwanese Chan master Master Sheng Yen, and how an arduous meditation retreat and a powerful encounter with Quan Yin changed his life forever.
Gilbert also discusses exorcisms, ghost, and vexing spirits, and tells stories of the pitfalls of using spiritual healing to sustain terminally ill patients.
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Childhood bardo memories
03:28 - Early meditation experiences
06:05 - A “roaming” Catholic and asking questions
10:26 - Studies at UCLA
11:37 - Studying closed-door martial arts systems
12:44 - Chinese master vs Japanese karateka
15:23 - Things are not as they appear
17:45 - Visionary experiences across time
19:37 - Nāgārjuna’s refutation of time and space
20:32 - True meaning of “no thought”
24:27 - The first level of Chan practice
25:53 - Nei gong studies and building chi
29:07 - Developing Wu Nien and related abilities
33:13 - Demonstrating abilities
34:52 - Meeting a qigong master and becoming his successor
39:52 - Healing abilities of the master
42:32 - Meeting masters and cracking the code
44:15 - Asking why we practice
45:33 - The dangers of using entities to empower your practice
50:39 - Meeting Master Sheng Yen
54:01 - Master Sheng Yen psychically anticipates meet Gilbert
58:59 - Suffering at first retreat with Master Sheng Yen
01:02:44 - Prostrating to Quan Yin and finding life’s purpose
01:06:37 - Metta, Karuna, and Henry Shukman
01:08:44 - Unconditional compassion
01:11:21 - True meaning of the Heart Sutra
01:18:45 - Moving from qigong to Chan
01:25:57 - Exorcisms, ghosts, and vexing spirits
01:29:42 - Buddha-perception and seeing other realms
01:31:10 - How do the Buddhas see the world?
01:35:33 - A vision of Quan Yin
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Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James