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This World Is a Dream
This World Is a Dream
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 18, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
No Mind
No Mind
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 17, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
Kindness Ripples Out
Kindness Ripples Out
SK Teoh JDPSNApril 16, 2019teachings
Practicing Alone
Practicing Alone
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 13, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
In the Midst of Coming and Going
In the Midst of Coming and Going
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 12, 2019teachings
Fortune Telling Is Not Difficult
Fortune Telling Is Not Difficult
Zen Master Su BongApril 11, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
To Wake Up
To Wake Up
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 10, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
The Good News in Buddhism
The Good News in Buddhism
Zen Master Wu KwangApril 9, 2019teachings
Good and Bad Karma
Good and Bad Karma
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 4, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
The Feeling of Compassion
The Feeling of Compassion
Zen Master Bon HaeApril 3, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
Great Love
Great Love
Zen Master Hye MunApril 2, 2019teachings
The Bone Of Zen
The Bone Of Zen
Zen Master Bon SoengApril 1, 2019zen, suffering
Two Essential Questions
Two Essential Questions
Zen Master Dae KwangMarch 30, 2019teachings, quotes5
Keep a Wide View
Keep a Wide View
Zen Master Seung SahnMarch 29, 2019teachings
Strong Sitting
Strong Sitting
Zen Master Seung SahnMarch 28, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
What Is Mind?
What Is Mind?
Zen Master Seung SahnMarch 27, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
You Can Get Everything
You Can Get Everything
Chon Mun Sunim JDPSMarch 26, 2019teachings
Understanding Is in Our Head
Understanding Is in Our Head
Zen Master Seung SahnMarch 23, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
More Freedom
More Freedom
Zen Master Bon SoengMarch 22, 2019teachings
The Zen Hall Is Not the Only Zen Hall
The Zen Hall Is Not the Only Zen Hall
Kwan Um School of ZenMarch 21, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes5
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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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