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How Does Zen Practice Take Away Karma?
How Does Zen Practice Take Away Karma?
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 9, 2025karma
You Are Not Your Thoughts: Creating Space Through Meditation
You Are Not Your Thoughts: Creating Space Through Meditation
Zen Master Bon SoengJune 1, 2025thought, space, meditation
Back to the Source: Rediscovering Our Luminous Nature
Back to the Source: Rediscovering Our Luminous Nature
Zen Master Hae KwangMay 26, 2025true nature, buddha
Strong Sitting: Letting Thoughts Be Without Attachment
Strong Sitting: Letting Thoughts Be Without Attachment
Zen Master Seung SahnMay 12, 2025zen, sitting, thinking
What Is Important For Zen Practice?
What Is Important For Zen Practice?
Zen Master Wu KwangMay 5, 2025don't know
The Gift Within Life’s Difficulties
The Gift Within Life’s Difficulties

What is this life and death business? What is my job in this life? What is suffering, and what is this that suffers? What is this I? What is other than I?

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Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSNApril 28, 2025suffering, great question
Two Kinds of Religion
Two Kinds of Religion
Zen Master Dae BongApril 21, 2025religion, bodhisattva
You Already Have Enlightenment
You Already Have Enlightenment
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 14, 2025enlightenment, desire
How To Deal With Very Strong Emotions?
How To Deal With Very Strong Emotions?
Zen Master Gu JaApril 7, 2025
Returning to the Moment: Embracing Presence Through Practice
Returning to the Moment: Embracing Presence Through Practice
Zen Master Bon ShimMarch 31, 2025thinking, don't know, suffering
Beyond Answers: Embracing “Don’t Know” to Know Yourself
Beyond Answers: Embracing “Don’t Know” to Know Yourself
Andrzej Stec JDPSNMarch 24, 2025don't know, self
Mind Revolution: Transforming Your Relationship with Desire
Mind Revolution: Transforming Your Relationship with Desire
Zen Master Dae BongMarch 17, 2025mind, desire
What Am I? - Uncovering Life’s Purpose
What Am I? - Uncovering Life’s Purpose
Zen Master Seung SahnMarch 10, 2025human, vow, purpose, bodhisattva
The Gift of This Moment: Embracing The Practice
The Gift of This Moment: Embracing The Practice
Zen Master Soeng HyangMarch 3, 2025moment, liberation
Cutting Through Delusions: The Path of Zen Practice
Cutting Through Delusions: The Path of Zen Practice
Kwan Haeng Sunim JDPSFebruary 24, 2025bliss, vow
What Is Clear Mind?
What Is Clear Mind?
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 17, 2025clear mind, thinking
The Path to Enlightenment: Letting Go of Everything
The Path to Enlightenment: Letting Go of Everything
Zen Master Bon ShimFebruary 10, 2025enlightenment, letting go
Zen And The Art Of Listening
Zen And The Art Of Listening
Zen Master Bon SoengFebruary 3, 2025listening
Everything Becomes Buddha
Everything Becomes Buddha
Zen Master Gu JaJanuary 27, 2025thought, buddha
Embracing the Moment: No Life, No Death
Embracing the Moment: No Life, No Death
Zen Master Tan GongJanuary 20, 2025Zen, life, death
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Question: In many families now, both parents have to work. They also have children and social responsibilities. How can the parents make a living, raise a family and still have time to practice? Zen Master Seung Sahn: If you have children and both pa
"Dry cognition cannot help your life." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #clearmind #dharma #sutras #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
When you look closely, this world is like a huge insane asylum. Everyone creates his or her own prison. We double- and triple-lock ourselves in and cry out for freedom. As soon as we create ideas and concepts of freedom, we become unfree. In the mome
"Practice is not only what we do in the meditation room." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #meditation #moment #trymind #simple #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
"Everything comes from where?" Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #kwanumzen #zmseungsahn
When you see the sky, only blue. When you see the tree, just green. When you see the wall, only white. When you see the floor during meditation time, eyes half open and only meditating, only brown. That name is "seeing something, mind is clear.&
"The Buddha gave all kinds of teaching, and he said that he taught that way to save all different kinds of minds." Quote by Zen Master Soeng Hyang #zen #buddha #mind #dontknow #kongan #engage #kwanumzen
In Buddhism, faith has nothing to do with anything outside of ourselves. It does not necessarily have to do with something supernatural or esoteric. In a sense, it's faith in our own true nature. It's faith in a sense that I can be willing to let go
Join us for an Online Meditation Retreat on July 24–25! The retreat will be led by Nancy Hedgpeth JDPSN, Andrzej Stec JDPSN and Arne Schaefer JDPSN and will include 1:1 kong-an interviews. This will be a 24 hour continuous retreat, but you may

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