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patriarch bodhidharma once said, “our mind must be like a wall in order to reach realization, without grasping of external appearance and with equanimity of mind.” this statement refers to mahayana’ s wall-gazing dharma gate, whereby we use one thought to overcome all the tens of millions of thoughts. once then can we achieve our monastic vow. as the ancestral monastery of chan sect, shaolin temple considers the recognition of meditation as the most important and critical process of restoring the tradition and continuing the development of shaolin temple.