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Clean This Karma
Clean This Karma

Just seeing your karma is not enough.

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Zen Master Dae JinJune 26, 2018teachings
Head and Heart
Head and Heart
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 23, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
The Source of Suffering
The Source of Suffering
Kwan Um School of ZenJune 20, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
The Buddha Was Not a Buddhist
The Buddha Was Not a Buddhist

Question: How do you become a good Buddhist?

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Zen Master Dae KwangJune 19, 2018teachings
Strong Sitting
Strong Sitting
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 19, 2018quotes, teachings, quotes1
Practicing Alone
Practicing Alone
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 19, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Where Does Suffering Abide?
Where Does Suffering Abide?

If you are attached to the five skandhas of form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, or consciousness, then suffering has a place to stay.

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Zen Master Seung SahnJune 12, 2018teachings
The Zen Hall
The Zen Hall
Kwan Um School of ZenJune 12, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Everything Will Come Up
Everything Will Come Up

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Paul Majchrzyk JDPSNJune 8, 2018teachings
This Whole World Is a Dream
This Whole World Is a Dream
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 8, 2018quotes, teachings, quotes1
Good Meditation and Bad Meditation
Good Meditation and Bad Meditation

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SK Teoh JDPSNJune 5, 2018teachings
Anger and Sadness
Anger and Sadness
Zen Master Su BongJune 5, 2018teachings, quotes
What Life Will You Live?
What Life Will You Live?
Zen Master Bon SoengJune 4, 2018karma, life
Just Don't Pick and Choose
Just Don't Pick and Choose

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Zen Master Hae KwangJune 1, 2018teachings
Find the Seed
Find the Seed
Zen Master Dae KwanMay 30, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Everything is No Problem
Everything is No Problem
Zen Master Seung SahnMay 30, 2018teachings, quotes
YOU Made Your World
YOU Made Your World

Question: Why can’t we stop thinking about the past, why can’t we live here and now?

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Zen Master Dae BongMay 29, 2018teachings
"What is this not-moving thing?"
"What is this not-moving thing?"
Zen Master Seung SahnMay 25, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
"I only walk on the sword's blade"
"I only walk on the sword's blade"

Once there was a sick man, who went for help to many doctors, but they only spread their arms helplessly—they were not able to help him.

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Zen Master Bon ShimMay 22, 2018teachings
"Your true self is always shining and free."
"Your true self is always shining and free."
Zen Master Seung SahnMay 19, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
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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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