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"Everything appears and disappears." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #impermanence #meditation #mind #truenature #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
"Our job is to practice hard and perceive this world. Humans do more bad actions on this planet than any other living thing. How can we help? Our consciousness and suffering people's consciousness must connect. Then we can help. If you only practice for yourself, that's not correct practicing. Our practicing means attain your true self. Attain your true self means Great Love, Great Compassion, the Great Bodhisattva Way. In other words, moment to moment keep correct situation, correct relationship and correct function. If we don't have enough money to help people, then we chant for them. Chant Kwan Seum Bosal many times and say, "Please may all suffering human beings and all suffering animals be relieved of suffering. Same day, same time! Together become Buddha." That's our direction. This direction never ends, lifetime after lifetime. That's our great vow. So, if we see suffering people, then we chant for them. That's our job. O.K.?" —Zen Master Seung Sahn #zen #humanbeings #suffering #trueself #greatlove #bodhisattvaway #buddha #greatvow #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
Zen Master Seung Sahn with American sangha members and Korean guests, Providence Zen Center, 1980's. #throwbackthursday #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
"Silence is better than holiness." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #holiness #silence #bodhisattva #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
If you look at what we do in formal Zen meditation, for example—besides the fact we sit in a particular way and become still—we essentially don’t try to get rid of any thought or state of mind or any particular feeling. Likewise, we don’t cling to any particular thought or state of mind or any particular feeling. We let everything come and go freely, just perceive, moment by moment. That practice is a cultivation of nongrasping. That nongrasping is the essence of your true being. If you sit with that attitude, if sadness appears, at that moment you’re just sad. If happiness appears, at that moment you’re just happy. If pain appears, at that moment there’s just pain. You could say sadness kills you at that moment, happiness kills you at that moment, pain in your legs kills you at that moment, the sound of the siren from the fire engine down the street kills you at that moment. But that killing is a coming to life. You connect with what is. So there is a difference between being pulled by emotion and having emotion. We are human beings, so we naturally have thoughts, we naturally have emotions, we naturally have sensations, we naturally have a body, we naturally have relationships. They’re all just aspects of our natural being. But if you begin to get stuck in particular ways, then your emotions pull you around by the nose. Then you are caught. —Zen Master Wu Kwang (Photo by Sven Mahr.) #zen #meditation #perceive #moment #emotions #kwanumzen
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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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