‘North, south, east and west being void, they form a single house.’
Kusan Sunim
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — You must just be as immovable as an incense burner.
‘You must just be as immovable as an incense burner before a Buddha-image and as unchanging as dried wood resting on cold ashes.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — You must be as audacious as someone trying to grab the eyebrows of a living tiger.
‘You must be as audacious as someone trying to grab the eyebrows of a living tiger or to snatch the whiskers of a flying dragon. Then you will know.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — If in one morning we can completely extinguish our karma.
‘A poem says: If in one morning we can completely extinguish our karma produced by ignorance, in the middle of the night the golden crow will fly across the sky.’
Kusan Sunim
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 — Furthermore, all ways of earning a living and all arts.
‘Furthermore, all ways of earning a living and all arts and crafts are the form and functioning of this bright universal wisdom. There is no distinction whatsoever.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — The tongue which produces careless speech.
‘The tongue which produces careless speech is like an axe used to kill oneself.’
Kusan Sunim
Morning meditation — If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas.
‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’
Kusan Sunim
Buddhism now 