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This Moment Is the Practice
This Moment Is the Practice
Zen Master Bon HaeDecember 29, 2025peace, delusion, community
Before Thinking: Where Zen Practice Begins
Before Thinking: Where Zen Practice Begins
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 22, 2025true nature, seung sahn, philosophy
Your Suffering Is the Bodhisattva Way
Your Suffering Is the Bodhisattva Way
Zen Master Dae BongDecember 15, 2025
One More Step Beyond Life and Death
One More Step Beyond Life and Death
Zen Master Dae KwanDecember 8, 2025life, death, freedom
Your True Compass Is Don’t-Know
Your True Compass Is Don’t-Know
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 1, 2025seung sahn, compass, don't know
The Purpose Of The Temple Rules
The Purpose Of The Temple Rules
Kathy Park JDPSNOctober 27, 2025Pai Chang, temple rules
Why Discipline Matters in Zen Meditation
Why Discipline Matters in Zen Meditation
Zen Master Bon SoengAugust 11, 2025
The Purpose of Bowing: Seeing True Nature and Helping All Beings
The Purpose of Bowing: Seeing True Nature and Helping All Beings
Zen Master Dae BongJuly 28, 2025bowing, direction, karma
I Don't Teach Buddhism Or Zen
I Don't Teach Buddhism Or Zen
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 7, 2025seung sahn, don't know
Mind Alone Creates the World: A Call to Compassionate Practice
Mind Alone Creates the World: A Call to Compassionate Practice
Zen Master Ji KwangJune 23, 2025Avatamsaka Sutra, bodhisattva
You Are Not Your Thoughts: Creating Space Through Meditation
You Are Not Your Thoughts: Creating Space Through Meditation
Zen Master Bon SoengJune 1, 2025thought, space, meditation
What Is Important For Zen Practice?
What Is Important For Zen Practice?
Zen Master Wu KwangMay 5, 2025don't know
You Already Have Enlightenment
You Already Have Enlightenment
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 14, 2025enlightenment, desire
How To Deal With Very Strong Emotions?
How To Deal With Very Strong Emotions?
Zen Master Gu JaApril 7, 2025
Zen And The Art Of Listening
Zen And The Art Of Listening
Zen Master Bon SoengFebruary 3, 2025listening
What Is The Middle Way?
What Is The Middle Way?
Zen Master Bon HaeJanuary 6, 2025middle way
20th Year Memorial Video of Zen Master Seung Sahn
20th Year Memorial Video of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Kwan Um School of ZenDecember 2, 2024
The Space Of Don't Know Mind
The Space Of Don't Know Mind
Myong Hae Sunim JDPSOctober 7, 2024don't know, truth
The Energy Of Chanting
The Energy Of Chanting
Rebecca Otte JDPSNSeptember 9, 2024chanting, together action
Reveal Yourself - Reveal Buddha
Reveal Yourself - Reveal Buddha
Zen Master Bon SoengSeptember 3, 2024
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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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