At the beginning each practitioner is given a hua-tou, a kind of koan. For example: What is this? I-Mo-Ko? What is this? The idea is to concentrate your entire attention and mind on this one particular koan or hua-tou: What is this? What is this? What is this? It is different from vipassana meditation where the intention is to be aware and solely aware of what is going on. When you eat, you just acknowledge how that feels—approaching the spoon, touching the spoon, feeling the coolness of the handle, and so on. In koan meditation, however, your attention is single-pointedly directed to this question—What is this?—right now. Initially, it is very difficult to concentrate because all kinds of thinking comes up . . . comes up . . . comes up . . . like clouds, or smoke from a chimney…
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Xuefeng’s ‘Deliverance’
Xuefeng’s ‘Deliverance’
If you can turn things around you will be the same as the Thus Come.
Experience something of the Zen Monastic Training
Buddhist Film (49 minutes) A group of Koreans experience Zen training.
Guidance of a Departed Spirit by Kusan Sunim
Can you understand that originally there is no birth or death?
At what place can you establish mastery over your destiny within birth and death? Master Kusan
The weedy bones (wandering thoughts) are already rotten. Why was it necessary to cry out ‘Oh Heaven’?
What is your original nature prior to the manifestation of space? Master Kusan
Again, let me explain about the path walked by the ancients.
History of Buddhist Bronzes
Film showing a collection of Chinese and Korean Buddhist bronzes that tell the story of religious art in Asia across 600 years, from the 4th century to the 10th century AD. (around 4 minutes.)
Snatching the Whiskers of a Dragon, by Master Kusan
We keep on working. If we can continue in this manner for one to three weeks, suddenly our mind and truth will mesh; we will understand the cause and conditions of the big matter…