What Is Meant by Wild Fox Zhan?
Practitioners in meditation often believe that they are training their breathing or air-stream, thinking that they will have realized when their own air-stream merges with that on Earth and in Heaven to start Universal circulation. This is what we call “wild fox Zhan” (not: specious meditation, based on a story about a Tang Dynasty priest teaching Zhan to a fox) in the phenomenal world. Some people who do air-breathing exercises and inhaling and exhaling exercises are still juggling with breathing, whose final achievement never goes beyond that. Mister Li Bing-nan, a lay-Buddhist in the middle of Taiwan who had been lecturing on various sutras for years, was originally a practitioner of “wild fox zhan,” but later gave up the evil practice and started learning the Pure Land. Is “universal circulation” also “breathing?” In fact, no; it is a “rational.” Meditation for luminosity takes “rationale” as its fundamental and “breathing” supplementary. In the final analysis, it is the mind that
