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Using Your Karma
Using Your Karma
Zen Master Bon YeonMarch 1, 2021karma
How To Extinguish Desires
How To Extinguish Desires
Zen Master Wu KwangFebruary 22, 2021desire, ego
The Eightfold Path of Zen
The Eightfold Path of Zen
Kwan Um School of ZenFebruary 12, 2021teachings
Buddha Nature
Buddha Nature
Zen Master Dae KwangFebruary 8, 2021buddha, buddha nature
The Wisdom Of This Moment
The Wisdom Of This Moment
Zen Master Bon SoengFebruary 1, 2021wisdom, moment
Direction In Your Practice
Direction In Your Practice
Zen Master Tan WolJanuary 11, 2021
2021 Will Welcome You
2021 Will Welcome You
Zen Master Soeng HyangJanuary 1, 2021teachings
New Year Poem
New Year Poem
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 28, 2020new year
Departure Poem for Myong Hae Sunim JDPS
Departure Poem for Myong Hae Sunim JDPS
Zen Master Dae KwanDecember 21, 2020Myong Hae
Empty Means Everything Is Clear
Empty Means Everything Is Clear
Zen Master Su BongDecember 14, 2020emptiness, correct relationship
Perceiving Soun
Zen Master Seung SahnDecember 7, 2020chanting, sound
Transcending The Ocean Of Suffering
Transcending The Ocean Of Suffering
Koen Vermeulen JDPSNNovember 30, 2020suffering, wisdom
Before Buddha Saw The Morning Star
Before Buddha Saw The Morning Star
Zen Master Jok UmNovember 2, 2020buddha, enlightenment
How Do You Practice?
How Do You Practice?
Zen Master Bon HaeOctober 26, 2020
Desire for Fame
Desire for Fame
Zen Master Joeng HyeOctober 19, 2020fame, bodhisattva
Keeping Your Center In A Turbulent World
Keeping Your Center In A Turbulent World
Zen Master Ji HaengOctober 12, 2020center
Now Is The Time
Now Is The Time
Zen Master Wu BongOctober 5, 2020buddha, wake up
Only Practicing
Only Practicing
Zen Master Seung SahnSeptember 28, 2020sitting, Zen
Waking Up from the Dream
Waking Up from the Dream
Oleg Šuk JDPSNSeptember 14, 2020dream, wake up
Exploding Name And Form
Exploding Name And Form
Zen Master Bon SoengSeptember 7, 2020
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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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