Primary Point is the teaching journal of the Kwan Um School of Zen, published since 1983.

The current issue available as a PDF download. For older issues, please visit the Primary Point Archive.

There Is No Dictator Like Humans
Zen Master Seung Sahn

How Do You Compost Karma?
Zen Master Soeng Hyang

On Anger
Zen Master Dae Bong

Never Look Back
Andrzej Stec JDPSN

All Became One

You Might Hear, but You Don’t Always Listen!
Yonym Bang

Learning Harmony
Evgeniia Likhanova

Listen with Intention, Hear with Compassion
Kathy Park JDPSN

The Unglamorous Muddle
James Barnes

Together Action: Stories from the Musangsa Summer Kyol Che 2024
Peggie Chon

Living Moment to Moment
Sharon Choa

My Summer Retreat
Hyun Hyo Kim