‘A hundred years of life is dependent on one breath.’
Kusan Sunim
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation: Today is Rohatsu – the Zen Buddhist day celebrating the Buddha’s enlightenment.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Zen Buddhism
Morning meditation — At times it goes well and at times it does not.
‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Many monks who practise in meditation halls.
‘Many monks who practise in meditation halls often just settle down in such places. Thus out of ten practitioners eight or nine are unable to pierce through the barrier of the patriarchs.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states.
‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning Meditation — The greatest determination.
‘The greatest determination is similar to the one of a beginner who has just started practising meditation.’
Kusan Sumin
Morning meditation — We turned our backs (on our Original-nature).
‘We turned our backs (on our Original-nature), so do not advocate searching outside for it. Having fully exposed the precious jewel, we do not know it as precious.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Extraordinary people ultimately extend.
‘A poem says:
Extraordinary people ultimately extend in all horizontal and vertical directions.’
Kusan Sunim
Buddhism now 