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Desire and Aspiration
Desire and Aspiration
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 20, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
No Gate
No Gate
Zen Master Wu KwangFebruary 19, 2019teachings
Become Buddha
Become Buddha
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 16, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Doubt
Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Doubt
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 15, 2019teachings
Everything Becomes Buddha
Everything Becomes Buddha
Zen Master Gu JaFebruary 14, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Inside and Outside Revolution
Inside and Outside Revolution
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 13, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
No Freedom
No Freedom
Zen Master Dae KwanFebruary 12, 2019teachings
Understanding Kong-Ans Is Not Important
Understanding Kong-Ans Is Not Important
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 9, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Understanding Your Job
Understanding Your Job
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 8, 2019teachings
True Buddhism
True Buddhism
Kwan Um School of ZenFebruary 7, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Direct Experience
Direct Experience
Zen Master Dae KwangFebruary 6, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
The Ultimate Alarm Clock
The Ultimate Alarm Clock
Zen Master Soeng HyangFebruary 5, 2019teachings
Lingering Karma
Lingering Karma
Zen Master Dae BongFebruary 4, 2019karma, attachment
We Are All Like Rocks
We Are All Like Rocks
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 2, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
What Is Our Mind?
What Is Our Mind?
Zen Master Seung SahnFebruary 1, 2019teachings
Make Our Minds Simple
Make Our Minds Simple
Zen Master Dae BongJanuary 31, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Free
Free
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 30, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
Become a Fellow-Being
Become a Fellow-Being
Zen Master Ji KwangJanuary 29, 2019teachings
Four Circumstances For Practice
Four Circumstances For Practice
Zen Master Jok UmJanuary 28, 2019practice, cicumstances, everyday life
Zen Mind Is Not Zen Mind
Zen Mind Is Not Zen Mind
Zen Master Seung SahnJanuary 26, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes6
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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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