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Posture Of Mind
Posture Of Mind
Zen Master Jok UmAugust 26, 2024mind, med, posture
Correct Practicing
Correct Practicing
Zen Master Seung SahnAugust 19, 2024bodhisattva, correct function
Why Do You Eat Every Day?
Why Do You Eat Every Day?
SK Teoh JDPSNAugust 12, 2024direction, great question, purpose
Connected To This Universe
Connected To This Universe
Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSNAugust 5, 2024universe, true nature
All Things Are Created By Mind
All Things Are Created By Mind
Zen Master Seung SahnJuly 29, 2024mind, hua yen, sutra
The Source of Attachment
The Source of Attachment
Zen Master Joeng HyeJuly 22, 2024attachment, don't know
Coming Back To This Big Question
Coming Back To This Big Question
Bon Sun Sunim JDPSJuly 15, 2024great question, don't know, suffering
The Truth of Desire
The Truth of Desire
Kathy Park JDPSNJuly 8, 2024truth, desire, fame
The World Of This Moment
The World Of This Moment
Zen Master Seung SahnJune 29, 2024moment, Zen
Great Doubt
Great Doubt
Zen Master Jok UmJune 23, 2024great question, great doubt, root
The Gift of Don't Know
The Gift of Don't Know
Zen Master Soeng HyangJune 17, 2024don't know
What Is The Right Sense Of Life?
What Is The Right Sense Of Life?
Zen Master Tan WolJune 3, 2024life, just do it
Why Don't More People Practice Zen?
Why Don't More People Practice Zen?
Zen Master Dae BongMay 27, 2024Zen, man gong, correct way
Believe In Your True Self
Believe In Your True Self
Zen Master Bon HaeMay 20, 2024true self, belief
World Sickness
World Sickness
Zen Master Seung SahnMay 13, 2024imbalance, truth, wisdom
The Most Important In Zen Practice
The Most Important In Zen Practice
Zen Master Bon SoengMay 6, 2024
Correct Effort In Our Practice
Correct Effort In Our Practice
Kathy Park JDPSNApril 29, 2024effort, don't know
Iron Bars of Nonunderstanding
Iron Bars of Nonunderstanding
Zen Master Jok UmApril 22, 2024exchange, understanding, desire
Life is Zen
Life is Zen
Zen Master Seung SahnApril 15, 2024Zen, suffering, bodhisattva
Your True Teacher
Your True Teacher
Knud Rosenmayr JDPSNApril 8, 2024teacher
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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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