Web Site of the Week

Tu An Zen Temple in Santa Ana offers Internet users a comprehensive guide to the practice of Buddhism and a discussion of the path to Zen mastery.

The site, at https://vinet.vinet.com/~tuanthienduong, also provides information about the schedule of the temple’s Rev. Wei Li Thich Duy, a daily plan for meditation, the opportunity to join an e-mail list and other information in English, Vietnamese and Chinese.

Offering a view of Buddhism to the uninitiated, the site describes the search for the “real mind.”

“We human beings, in our daily lives, believe only the illusory mind. We cannot see our real mind because it is covered up by all the cluttering knowledge and busy activities of the illusory mind. So, we always take the knowledge of the illusory mind to be real. Yet in reality, such knowledge has no real value to the knower because it will die and vanish in time.”

The site also lists sample “unanswerable questions designed to lead the mind into the not-knowing state.”

Among them: “Before heaven and earth were created, what was I? All things return to the One, where does the One return? Before my parents were not born, what was my original face? From where does birth come, to where does death return? It is not Mind, not Buddha, not things, what is it?”

The temple, which also has a location in Vietnam, is at 4310 W. 5th St. in Santa Ana. Information: (714) 265-2357.