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Direct Experience
Direct Experience
Zen Master Dae KwangAugust 1, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
This Universe Can Embrace Anything
This Universe Can Embrace Anything

The realm of Buddha is nothing but to wake up to here and now.

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Zen Master Dae KwanJuly 31, 2018teachings
Zen Has No Road
Zen Has No Road
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 28, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Healing Is a Human Idea
Healing Is a Human Idea

Whether we perceive our experiences as joyful or painful doesn’t matter.

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Zen Master Soeng HyangJuly 27, 2018teachings
Everything is Meditation
Everything is Meditation
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 25, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
My Desire Won't Be Enough
My Desire Won't Be Enough
Zen Master Bon SoengJuly 24, 2018teachings
Two Essential Questions
Two Essential Questions
Zen Master Dae KwangJuly 21, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Digest Your Emotions
Digest Your Emotions

If your center is not strong then emotion controls you. Your emotions will control you, also other people’s emotions will control you.

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Zen Master Dae BongJuly 20, 2018teachings
The Teacher Is in Them
The Teacher Is in Them

For us, we feel sad and grateful. Sad because so many people around the world, and not just Buddhists, are hurt and confused about this.

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Zen Master Soeng HyangJuly 19, 2018teachings
Your True Teachers
Your True Teachers
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 18, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Real Magic
Real Magic

Question: Have you encountered any magical event? 

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Knud Rosenmayr JDPSNJuly 17, 2018teachings
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
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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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