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Change Your Habits, Change Your Karma
Change Your Habits, Change Your Karma
Andrzej Stec JDPSNOctober 20, 2025karma, habits
Mind Itself Is the Place of Practice
Mind Itself Is the Place of Practice
Zen Master Wu KwangOctober 13, 2025mind, practice
Perceiving Universal Sound
Perceiving Universal Sound
Zen Master Seung SahnOctober 6, 2025chanting, sound
Enlightenment Means Just Do It
Enlightenment Means Just Do It
Zen Master Gu JaSeptember 29, 2025enlightenment, just do it
Digesting Dead Karma: Finding Energy Through Practice
Digesting Dead Karma: Finding Energy Through Practice
Zen Master Dae BongSeptember 22, 2025karma, wisdom
The Only True Dharma Is No Dharma
The Only True Dharma Is No Dharma
Zen Master Seung SahnSeptember 15, 2025dharma, truth
From Separation to Connection: The Practice of Presence
From Separation to Connection: The Practice of Presence
Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSNSeptember 8, 2025universe, true self
Reminders of Our True Nature
Reminders of Our True Nature
Zen Master Hae KwangSeptember 1, 2025original nature
The Practice of Returning Home
The Practice of Returning Home
Zen Master Bon YeonAugust 18, 2025zen, mind, clear mind
Why Discipline Matters in Zen Meditation
Why Discipline Matters in Zen Meditation
Zen Master Bon SoengAugust 11, 2025
Thinking Is Not the Problem—Attachment Is
Thinking Is Not the Problem—Attachment Is
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 4, 2025thinking, attachment, practice
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
How Our Minds Shape The World We See
How Our Minds Shape The World We See
Rebecca Otte JDPSNJuly 21, 2025mind
Seeing Dharma in Every Moment
Seeing Dharma in Every Moment
Zen Master Jok UmJuly 14, 2025
I Don't Teach Buddhism Or Zen
I Don't Teach Buddhism Or Zen
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 7, 2025seung sahn, don't know
Manifesting the Moment: Life as Kong-an Practice
Manifesting the Moment: Life as Kong-an Practice
Zen Master Wu BongJune 28, 2025kong-an, koan, everyday life
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
Composting Your Karma: Opening to Inner Wisdom
Composting Your Karma: Opening to Inner Wisdom
Zen Master Soeng HyangJune 16, 2025karma, digesting, wisdom
How Does Zen Practice Take Away Karma?
How Does Zen Practice Take Away Karma?
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 9, 2025karma
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
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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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