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One Mind
One Mind
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 19, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Zen Meditation
Zen Meditation
Zen Master Wu KwangDecember 16, 2019Zen, everyday life
Heat Up the Heart
Heat Up the Heart
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 13, 2019teachings
Be Naked With It
Be Naked With It
Zen Master Soeng HyangDecember 12, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Always Shining
Always Shining
Zen Master Dae KwangDecember 6, 2019teachings
Reputation
Reputation
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 5, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Correct Way, Truth, and Life
Correct Way, Truth, and Life
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 2, 2019Zen, truth, correct way, life
A Glorious and Marvelous Feat
A Glorious and Marvelous Feat
Zen Master Soeng HyangNovember 29, 2019teachings
Even the Buddha Cannot Help You
Even the Buddha Cannot Help You
Zen Master Seung SahnNovember 28, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Goodness
Goodness
Zen Master Seung SahnNovember 22, 2019teachings
Freedom
Freedom
Zen Master Bon SoengNovember 21, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
True Emptiness
True Emptiness
Zen Master Seung SahnNovember 13, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Everything Is Zen
Everything Is Zen
Zen Master Wu KwangNovember 6, 2019quotes, quotes8, teachings
Brokenness To Enlightenment
Brokenness To Enlightenment
Zen Master Wu KwangNovember 4, 2019enlightenment
Nature Is Already Teaching Us
Nature Is Already Teaching Us
Zen Master Seung SahnOctober 31, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
Truth
Truth
Zen Master Seung SahnOctober 25, 2019teachings
Enmeshed
Enmeshed
Zen Master Dae KwangOctober 23, 2019teachings, quotes8, quotes
Faith Needs No Object
Faith Needs No Object
Zen Master Bon HaeOctober 23, 2019teachings
The Real Wonder of Zen Practice
The Real Wonder of Zen Practice
Zen Master Bon YeonOctober 18, 2019teachings
This "I" Does Not Exist
This "I" Does Not Exist
Zen Master Seung SahnOctober 10, 2019teachings, quotes, quotes8
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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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