‘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
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
Morning meditation — North, south, east and west being void.
‘North, south, east and west being void, they form a single house.’
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
