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Furthermore, students learn to deepen their awareness of their connection with everything they do. This is a thread from Zen Buddhism, which places great importance on being wholeheartedly one with every movement so that subject and object become one. In this state, without a split in our attention, we are one with the present moment, which is inseparable from the past and the future. At Skycliffe, HÜMÜH’s monastery and retreat centre, this is practiced in the form of Karma Yoga, a union with what we are doing in the moment. This often takes the form of work service and moving meditations.

The Living Teacher: The Weaver

All Teachings, as presented in HÜMÜH, are expounded by its living founder, Wisdom Master Maticintin, for the sole purpose of guiding each student to spiritual awakening.  As such, the Teachings themselves are primordially pure, without ego taint or bias, the original threads of Sakyamuni. The Wisdom Master weaves these Teachings together to create a vehicle free of limitations that can serve to guide others to enlightenment.

The importance of a living, enlightened Teacher cannot be over-emphasized. In the absence of a living Teacher, the spiritual Path, any spiritual Path, becomes filled with ritual and cluttered by interpretations and misconceptions. The original dharma thread becomes snarled in the consciousness of the Path’s unenlightened followers or intellectual teachers, who begin to mold the Path according to their own likes and dislikes. Without an enlightened Teacher, the Path becomes intellectual and ritualistic instead of open, pure, and experiential.

In HÜMÜH Buddhism, guided by the Wisdom Master, students cultivate compassion, a heart-connection with all life, living in a manner that takes the attention off of oneself, seeking to act impeccably in all situations, and developing a quiet mind and an awareness of the light, so that eventually they become one with the light. They become en-lightened.

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