What are the basics of Enlightenment?
Before you can progress to Zen, you must know the ground rules. Put simply, these are: Avoid all Evil, Do good, Purify the Mind. The ultimate aim of Bhuddism is to attain enlightenment. Not intellectual understanding of facts and events, but direct experience of life and its many variations. So, it is not enough to merely understand what enlightenment is; you must experience it for it to have any meaning. To do this, you must develop: Charity Morality Tolerance Perseverance Meditation Wisdom The first three concern doing good to others, the last three concern helping yourself to help others. Each stage leads to the next, and ultimately, meditation will lead to wisdom. With this attained, you will discover what the Ultimate Reality is, and this is also the ultimate aim of Shaolin Kung Fu; thus, the strands of Bhuddism and Shaolin Lohan Kung Fu meet again and are bound forever.
