‘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
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Can you Understand?
‘Can you understand that originally there is no birth or death?’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — Ultimate Meaning.
‘‘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
Morning Meditation: Everyone Originally Possesses.
‘Everyone originally possesses the Dharma-Seal of the Unborn; so why do you still search for it?’
Kusan Sumin
Morning meditation — If we Speak Carelessly.
‘If we speak carelessly it’s easy to become an enemy of others.’
Kusan Sunim
Is Such a State of Emptiness a Good Thing? By Kusan Sunim.
When all thoughts of past and future have been cut off, there will also be no thought of the present.
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’?
Buddhism now 