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True Home
True Home
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 14, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Golden Sand in the Eye
Golden Sand in the Eye

Zen students want enlightenment, but the problem is that as soon as you want something, this something is binding; it becomes your prison.

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Zen Master Wu BongJuly 13, 2018teachings
Who Made This
Who Made This
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 10, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
True Progress
True Progress

Nothing has ever changed. Desire, anger, and ignorance are the truth of human existence.

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Zen Master Dae BongJuly 10, 2018teachings
Good Actions Cannot Change Your Karma
Good Actions Cannot Change Your Karma
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 7, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Completely Free
Completely Free
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 4, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Zen Bubbles
Zen Bubbles

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Zen Master Gu JaJuly 3, 2018teachings
What Does It Mean to Have a Clear Direction?
What Does It Mean to Have a Clear Direction?
Zen Master Bon YeonJuly 2, 2018direction, bodhisattva
Fortune Telling Is Not Difficult
Fortune Telling Is Not Difficult
Zen Master Su BongJune 30, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
We Have No Idea What's Going On
We Have No Idea What's Going On

Deep down inside, each of us knows we have no idea what’s going on. We don’t know.

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Zen Master Bon HaengJune 29, 2018teachings
You Mustn't Worry
You Mustn't Worry
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 29, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
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
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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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