‘The monk should remain deeply introspective, without making any mistake and taste the tea from the place which is both the highest and deepest.’
Sonhae Sunim
‘The monk should remain deeply introspective, without making any mistake and taste the tea from the place which is both the highest and deepest.’
Sonhae Sunim
‘Being lost among the causes of suffering is to abandon supreme happiness.
Why do you delight in unhappiness?’
Engaging deeds of Bodhisattva
‘Concentration is dualistic, needs an object and a degree of will. Awareness is more natural and encompassing and non-dual.’
Everyday Buddhism
Just love this Zen saying: ‘80% is perfect’.
Koan Practice
‘Bodhidharma faced the wall.
You’re not shown where the door is.
How to go through the wall, either.
How does one go through this practice?’
Koan Practice
The weedy bones (wandering thoughts) are already rotten. Why was it necessary to cry out ‘Oh Heaven’?
We keep on working. If we can continue in this manner for one to three weeks, suddenly our mind and truth will mesh; we will understand the cause and conditions of the big matter…
Sometimes people feel afraid because they don’t know what the teacher is talking about! `How we can face our own reality?’ But the teacher also has difficulty in getting the student’s discursive mind to understand what he is talking about. The best policy for the teacher, then, is to let practitioners continue with their practice, giving them time for some perspective to slowly come into focus. The most chronic disease for people who find it difficult to face reality is, indeed, this discursive mind…