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Space Is Never Broken
Space Is Never Broken
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 25, 2019teachings
Zen Is Not a Religion
Zen Is Not a Religion
Zen Master Bon SoengJanuary 24, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
True Confidence
True Confidence
Zen Master Bon HaengJanuary 23, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
What Kyol Che Really Means
What Kyol Che Really Means
Zen Master Su BongJanuary 22, 2019teachings
Don't Know Is Your True Nature
Don't Know Is Your True Nature
AdminJanuary 21, 2019don't know, true nature
Zen Means Not Holding Onto Anything
Zen Means Not Holding Onto Anything
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 19, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
What Kind of Impermanent Thing Is This?
What Kind of Impermanent Thing Is This?
Kwan Um School of ZenJanuary 18, 2019teachings
Who Taught You to Breathe?
Who Taught You to Breathe?
Zen Master Jok UmJanuary 17, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Good Things and Bad Things
Good Things and Bad Things
Zen Master Dae BongJanuary 16, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Faith
Faith
Zen Master Bon SoengJanuary 15, 2019teachings
Guests Passing By
Guests Passing By
Zen Master Dae KwanJanuary 11, 2019teachings
The Wisdom Is Already There
The Wisdom Is Already There
Zen Master Wu BongJanuary 10, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes4
Look Inside
Look Inside
Zen Master Dae KwangJanuary 9, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes4
How Much Do You Believe in Yourself?
How Much Do You Believe in Yourself?
Zen Master Bon YeonJanuary 8, 2019teachings
Waking Up from the Dream
Waking Up from the Dream
Oleg Šuk JDPSNJanuary 7, 2019dream, teacher, wake up
The Healing Process
The Healing Process
Zen Master Soeng HyangJanuary 5, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes4
Karma
Karma
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 4, 2019teachings
Where is this "I"?
Where is this "I"?
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 3, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes4
Independence
Independence
Zen Master Su BongJanuary 2, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes4
New Year Poem
New Year Poem
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 31, 2018new year, seung sahn
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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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