When our situation is always smooth and with good feeling then we can grow complacent. Keeping an alert and awake mind, fresh with inquiry, isn’t always so easy then.
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In order to have a great vow to attain enlightenment and save all people from suffering, one has to understand suffering. Sometimes more suffering is necessary, that is sad but true.
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Once, long ago Mun Su Bosal went to a gathering of all Buddhas. Just then, all the Buddhas returned to their original seats.
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Zen Master Dae Bong answers a question about how retreat can help us in our everyday life.
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In our Zen tradition, we have the story of Dok Sahn, who was a sutra master in northern China. He had heard about the Zen practitioners in southern China who sat all day long facing the wall and did nothing.
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It's like this: during sitting our karma energy (our back seat driver)—our desires, anger and ignorance—begins to lose control and our Dharma energy increases.
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Desire for fame often becomes a companion of every human being. It can be secretly hidden even in our spiritual path
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Student: It is very difficult to practice without expectation. Because we are putting in all the energy and time and... So how to do it?
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The world is full of suffering. How can it be stopped? Every human being has a seed of compassion and wisdom that must be very carefully nurtured. It is our responsibility to find this seed and do everything we can to make it grow.
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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?
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