‘When you reflect on the practice of the ancients… Sometimes, while practising it is as easy as pushing a boat over ice. At other times it is as difficult as trying to drag a cow to a well.’
Kusan Sunim
‘When you reflect on the practice of the ancients… Sometimes, while practising it is as easy as pushing a boat over ice. At other times it is as difficult as trying to drag a cow to a well.’
Kusan Sunim
‘Can you understand that originally there is no birth or death?’
Kusan Sunim
‘‘The Buddha is always present so it is always the right dharma age. This is the teaching of ultimate meaning.’
Exposition of the Avatamsaka Sutra
‘Everyone originally possesses the Dharma-Seal of the Unborn; so why do you still search for it?’
Kusan Sumin
‘If we speak carelessly it’s easy to become an enemy of others.’
Kusan Sunim
When all thoughts of past and future have been cut off, there will also be no thought of the present.
Can you understand that originally there is no birth or death?
The weedy bones (wandering thoughts) are already rotten. Why was it necessary to cry out ‘Oh Heaven’?