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Dharma Talk with David Jordan at Providence Zen Center Yong Maeng Jong Jin

Teachings, UncategorizedZen Master Soeng HyangDecember 6, 2005
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"We often say Zen is not really about self improvement." Quote by Zen Master Bon Soeng. #zen #selfimprovement #meditation #whoareyou #buddhism #kwanumzen
Years ago, a monk would take one kong-an into the mountain and hold it for many, many years until he got enlightenment. That was possible because a monk’s life does not always need to be involved with changing situations in a hectic world. But nowadays many people must connect their practice with life in a very fast and complicated society. If you only hold this samadhi-style and become-one style of using kong-ans, you are attached to an old and dead tradition. Then your kong-an practice does not have some practical and spontaneous application to life in the modern world. This is how Zen died out in China. Zen practice and kong-an practice there could no longer connect with everyday life, so they both died. Zen became an esoteric practice based on secret words and behind-meanings. Zen practice after the T’ang and Sung dynasties lost all of its bodhisattva direction. Our Zen style means intuitively perceiving how you use these kong-ans to connect meditation practice to bodhisattva action in a complicated world. That is the point of separating this way of viewing kong-an practice. It is a Zen revolution. —Zen Master Seung Sahn #zen #koans #meditation #samadhi #everydaylife #bodhisattva #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
Zen Master Seung Sahn and sangha members after Kido chanting retreat, California U.S.A., early 1980's. #throwbackthursday #kwanumzen #zmseungsahn
"It's our lazy mind that makes this idea of saving all people something difficult." Quote by Zen Master Soeng Hyang. #zen #mind #lazy #responsibility #now #meditation #kwanumzen
Zen Master Dae Kwan giving a public Dharma talk in Malaysia. #kwanumzen Posted @withrepost • @wwsf2020my 【WWSF2020系列活动：“打开ABCDE禅门FUN” 禅学坊 | “Discovering ABCDE Zen Fun” Zen workshop 18/6/2019】 谢谢大家昨晚的出席圆满了此次的活动～ 祝愿大家福德智慧增长，时时刻刻都处于禅法ABCDE的FUN中 ❤ 接下来我们还有更精彩的活动等着大家～ 详情继续留守我们吧～😎 在这2019年让我们与禅同行，修心愿行，保证您不虚此行，且势在必行！ #大观禅师 #WWSF2020 #世界一花 #禅行天下
Zen Master Dae Kwang giving a public Dharma talk in Brno, Czech Republic. #kwanumzen
Zen Master Gu Ja (Namhee Chon) describes her first retreat: My seat was placed right in front of the wooden wall. The small piece of the wall in front of me soon turned out to be filled with constantly changing pictures. I saw pictures of beautiful landscapes, fields, trees, animals, faces of men and women, people dancing, laughing, making love and so on. I was totally fascinated and absorbed while looking at the pictures and forgot everything around me for many days. But one day it happened that suddenly all the pictures disappeared. The wall stayed just as it was with lines, dots, colors and wood grains. Simple and not changing. The view of this simple piece of wood could not be compared with anything else I had seen before. It was so clear and beautiful! This beauty touched me so deeply that I started to cry silently. But it wasn't until some years later that I could realize that what I saw on the wall and how I saw it had to do with my mind only. This small piece of wooden wall revealed obviously how my mind was moving and creating things. When our mind moves and thinking appears, out of the lines, dots, and colors a tiger jumps out, demons are threatening, sex and rock 'n' roll emerge. It is the same in our everyday life. Our mind fabricates something, we think it's real and we laugh, cry and crave like mad because of that. We are like a fish fidgeting in the net of our own mind. Only when we realize that the substance of thinking and also the substance of our mind are all empty, we can let go of our attachment to our thinking and get out of the net. Everything then becomes simple and clear as it is. The wall is white and the sky is blue. Whatever we perceive, we are one with it. Only white and only blue. (Photo by Sven Mahr.) #zen #meditation #meditationretreat #mind #thinking #emptiness #simple #clear #kwanumzen
"At first you may not know how to recognize a keen-eyed teacher." Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #meditation #zenmaster #dharma #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen
Myong Hae Sunim JDPS is the second guiding teacher of Su Bong Zen Monastery in Hong Kong. Her journey was full of challenges, but as she says "If you give up, then what?" Find out more on this week's episode of Sit, Breathe, Bow. Link in bio.

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