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This Is Zen
This Is Zen
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 29, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes3
Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End
Zen Master Hae KwangAugust 25, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes3
True Substance
True Substance
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 22, 2018quotes, teachings, quotes3
Formal Practice
Formal Practice
Zen Master Wu BongAugust 18, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes3
Very Simple
Very Simple
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 15, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Good Things and Bad Things
Good Things and Bad Things
Zen Master Dae BongAugust 11, 2018quotes, teachings
When, Not If
When, Not If
Zen Master Bon SoengAugust 8, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
True Meditation
True Meditation
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 4, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Direct Experience
Direct Experience
Zen Master Dae KwangAugust 1, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Zen Has No Road
Zen Has No Road
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 28, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Everything is Meditation
Everything is Meditation
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 25, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Two Essential Questions
Two Essential Questions
Zen Master Dae KwangJuly 21, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Your True Teachers
Your True Teachers
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 18, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
True Home
True Home
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 14, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
Who Made This
Who Made This
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 10, 2018teachings, quotes, quotes1
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
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
You Mustn't Worry
You Mustn't Worry
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 29, 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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