Fundamentals of Ch'an Meditation Practice is written by Ting Chen and translated by Master Lok To. Ting Chen's The Fundamentals of (Ch'an) Meditation Practice Initially, one's own mind and nature are pure, with nothing to accept or reject. There is no existence nor nonexistence; there is just clear understanding without attachment or dwelling. Meditation is the only way to discover the no-attachment, no-dwelling mind, because it is only then that the mind does not think of right and wrong, good and evil, or self and others.