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"If you perceive your karma, then already the karma disappeared." Quote by Zen Master Su Bong. #zen #karma #meditation #kwanumzen
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"If you have this category called helping people you can’t help anyone. It’s like if you’re a parent of a baby or a toddler and you hear them crying in the middle of the night you don’t sit there and say 'how can I help this person?' You just get up and pick them up and you try to figure out whether they need a diaper change or they need to be fed or whatever it is and you do it. So there’s no idea of helping people. If you have an idea of helping people then you have a problem because it comes between you and the situation. Any idea — whether it’s happiness or compassion or helping people or sadness or grief or whatever — any idea comes between us and experience. If you have the idea of happiness then you have something to cling to and then immediately you have a problem. Just: every moment, every moment — what is this, what is this, what is this. What is the situation, what is your relationship to the situation, what is your function in that situation. Then happiness comes, no problem, happiness goes away, no problem. Helping people, no problem, not helping people, no problem…" —Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman) #zen #helping #experience #moment #relationship #noidea #kwanumzen
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Buddhism teaches us that we make our own life. We're quick to blame other people. We're quick to make a dream life of our likes and dislikes. We fall into a fantasy, and sometimes it's said, "like a drunken stupor". We get lost in a drunken stupor of our likes, dislikes, our opinions, our conditions. Each one of us brings all of our conditioning right into this moment, but we don't see it. We see a reflection of it in the world around us, so we judge, and we try to fit the world into our image. What doesn't fit, we don't like, and what does fit, we like. So in that sense, we make our own suffering. Or in that sense of urgency, you might say we make our own hell. We think of hell as something that comes to us after we die, but really we're making our own hell right here, right now. We are all guilty of it, nobody escapes. Through practice, we can find our way through it. Through practice, through wisdom, through our own experience, we can begin to break out of the hell that we make when our conditions make the hell of our lives. —Zen Master Bon Soeng #zen #buddhism #dreams #fantasy #suffering #hell #meditation #wisdom #kwanumzen
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