The Spirit of Zen
Zen begins to have special meaning for us when we begin to realize that nature has bestowed upon each of us every internal resource, necessary to a serene existence. We can be well-adjusted human beings. All that is required is quiet determination, diligently sustained. - Manly Hall
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Our discovery of the practical values of Zen unfolds according to a pattern of Ten Steps.
The First Step is the experience of the pressing need for greater understanding than we now possess.
The Second Step is the experience that it is possible for us to attain to any degree of insight, necessary for our own internal security.
The Third Step is the experience that inner peace can be attained only through the proper control of our thoughts and emotions.
The Fourth Step is the experience that there can be no advancement of character without self-discipline.
The Fifth Step is the experience that by self-discipline - the mental, emotional and physical life - can be brought under the control of enlightened purpose.
The Sixth Step is the experience that control over thought and emotion can be attained without stress or tension of any kind.
The Seventh Step is the experience that proper control makes possible the condition of complete inner quietude, by gradually reducing the power of external factors to disturb the inner life.
The Eighth Step is the experience that through quietude it is possible to become receptive to all the beauty and wisdom in the Universe.
The Ninth Step is the experience that we exist eternally in space and the true happiness and peace of soul result from complete acceptance of the Universal Plan and its laws.
The Tenth Step is the experience that pure consciousness, beyond and superior to self-will and self-purpose, leads to at ONEment with nameless reality.
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Manly Palmer Hall was a Canadian-born author and mystic. His most famous work was The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, and which he published at the age of 27.
He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, and the occult.
In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, dedicating it to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems. The PRS claims to be non-sectarian and entirely free from educational, political, or ecclesiastical control, and the Society's programs stress the need for the integration of philosophy, religion, and science into one system of instruction. The PRS Library, a public facility devoted to source materials in obscure fields, has many rare and scarce items now impossible to obtain elsewhere.
In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33º Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite), at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8th, despite never being initiated into the physical craft.
In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles.