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Everything is already truth, so everything coexists with no hindrance. For example, here is space. Clouds are constantly coming and going. Rain comes, and rain goes. Lightning comes and goes. Wind comes and goes, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Storms appear and disappear all the time. But though these things ceaselessly come and go in space, space is not hindered by them in the least, because space is complete emptiness. Clouds and rain and wind and sun and night and day are not hindered by one another. Your mind is exactly the same. If you practice meditation with great determination, you can completely attain the fundamental emptiness of this universe. Then when feelings come and go, and thinking comes and goes, and good situations come and go, and bad situations appear and disappear, nothing can hinder you at all. Everything is empty! When happiness appears, you can use that for other beings. When suffering appears, you can use suffering to help other beings. You can use good situations and bad situations, good experiences and bad experiences, only to help all beings get out of suffering, because all these "things" are completely empty, and this emptiness is our original compassionate nature.—Zen Master Seung Sahn #zen #truth #mind #meditation #emptiness #compassion #truenature #buddhism #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen (Photo courtesy of Bratislava Zen Center.)
"In some way we are all supporting one another." Quote by Zen Master Wu Kwang #zen #compassion #community #buddhism #interconnected #meditation #kwanumzen
Zen Master Seung Sahn and sangha members after a precepts ceremony. Carmel, California, 1973. #throwbackthursday #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
"More important than Buddhism, or Zen, or anything, is waking up." Quote by Zen Master Dae Kwang. #zen #buddhism #wakeup #buddha
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The most common explanation about karma is cause and effect. What that means is that whatever happens in our life, whatever we are facing, what we are dealing with, whatever upsets us and unhinges us, pain and suffering, whatever we have comes from some primary cause. But if you practice for some time then you see the meaning of karma in a broader way. That means that karma does not define our situation. What’s important is what kind of choices you make. This is an important point. You cannot make excuses that “that is my karma,” because it is open, it is an open situation. What do you do with karma? What kind of choices do you make? If you make the right choices, then your karma might become your dharma. And then you can get free of your karma. Or at least, you can control your karma. We always work in this way, either karma controls you, or you control your karma. Having a human body means that we have some karma. You cannot get rid of it, you just can use it.—Zen Master Bon Shim #zen #karma #dharma #choice #freedom #meditation #buddhism (Photo by Sven Mahr.)
"Don't be afraid of your sickness." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #sickness #humanlife #whatamI
The beginning and the end (of practice) is the same: "What am I?" Quote by Zen Master Dae Bong. #zen #meditation #whatamI #dontknow #trueself #noseparation #buddhism
There is suffering everywhere we look in the world. All beings are in pain and distress. But where does suffering come from? People are struck with a hopeless love for somebody, or they pursue the desire to obtain some material things. People have ambition to become things that they feel will complete their life, or to be recognized and approved by others. But no matter how hard we struggle for these things, even when we get them, we cannot keep them. And this causes all our suffering. But originally this suffering does not exist. It all comes from our mind, as a mirage rises up from a hot road and appears real. If I am suffering over some matter, and then I die, my suffering also disappears. When we realize this — that suffering is merely the product of our minds, and does not have some independent existence — then there is no longer any suffering and distress.—Zen Master Seung Sahn #zen #suffering #impermanence #delusion #mindmakeseverything #buddhism #zmseungsahn

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