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Volume 1 - 1984

Number 1 - Winter:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Strong Taste of Nothing"
Zen Master Su Bong - "What have we got to hold onto in this life?"
Zen Master Soeng Hyang - "The Bodhisattva Ideal"

Number 2 - Spring

Zen Master Seung Sahn -"World Peace Is Possible"
Jack Kornfield - "Seeing Suffering Directly"

Number 4 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "The Roots of American Buddhism"

Volume 2 - 1985

Number 1 - Winter:

Zen Master Soeng Hyang - "Believing in yourself"

Number 2 - Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Coming empty handed"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "How Can Sitting Save This Hungry World?"

Number 3 - Summer:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "This Universe Gives Us Everything"

Number 4 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn  - "The Sword that Kills and the Sword that Gives Life"

Volume 3 - 1986

Number 2 - Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "A Time of Complete Transformation"
Zen Master Wu Kwang - "Carrying snow in a teaspoon: The Bodhisattva effort"

Number 3 - Fall:

Zen Master Wu Kwang - "An exploration of the Zen kong-an and Gestalt impasse"

Volume 4 - 1987

Number 1 - Winter:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - Three Letters to a Beginner

Number 2 - Summer:

Zen Master Wu Bong - "The Pilgrimage to Awakening"

Number 3 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Inka Means Strong Center and Wisdom"

Volume 5 - 1988

Number 1 - Winter:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "A New Zen is Appearing"
Zen Master Seong Hyang - "It's OK to let go"
Zen Master Su Bong - "Why do I have to finish this?"

Number 2 - Spring: "Kong-An Practice in America"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Kong-ans: Mind to Mind Connection"
Zen Master Soeng Hyang - "A Kong-An is Nothing Other than the Present Moment"
Toni Packer - "Can Clear Seeing Be Attained Without Koan Practice?"
Jan Chozen Bays, Sensei - "Old Koans, New Koans, One Koan"
Zenson Gifford, Sensei - "What is a Koan?"

Number 3 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Perceive Universal Sound"
Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSN - "First Kyol Che"

Volume 6 - 1989

Number 1 - Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "One Person's Energy Helps All People"


Number 2 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Wearing a Kasa, Carrying the World"
Zen Master Wu Kwang - "Stepping Off a 100 Foot Flagpole"

Volume 7 - 1990

Number 1 - Winter/Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Earth, Air, Fire and Water - Repaying the Universe"
Zen Master Bon Yeon - "The Rimpoche's Toenails"

Number 2 - Summer: "Practice and Ecology"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Not Just a Human World"
Zen Master Soeng Hyang - "Unfolding Seasons"
Zen Master Wu Bong - "Ecology of Mind"

Number 3 - Fall: "Whole World is a Single Flower Conference - Korea 1990"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Opposites World, Absolute World, Complete World, Moment World"
Zen Master Dae Bong - "Practicing in Our Situation"
Commentaries on Hyang Eom's "Up a Tree"
     Case with Mu Mun's commentary
       Zen Master Su Bong's commentary
       Zen Master Soeng Hyang's commentary
       Zen Master Wu Kwang's commentary
       Zen Master Wu Bong's commentary

Volume 8 - 1991

Number 1 - Winter/Spring: "Geomancy: The Ancient Ecology"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "The Power of Practice"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "The Purposes of Buddhism"
Zen Master Dae Kwang - Inka Speech
Zen Master Bon Haeng - Inka Speech

Number 2 - Summer: "Healing"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "A Bad Situation is a Good Situation"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "The Medicine Buddha"
Zen Master Seong Hyang - "A Thousand Eyes, a Thousand Hands"
Zen Master Wu Kwang - "What is Your Original Face?"
Jon Kabat-Zinn - "Mindful Medicine"

Volume 9 - 1992

Number 1 - Winter: "Monasticism Old and New"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Samadhi and Zen"
Zen Master Wu Bong - "Not Difficult, Not Easy"
Panel Discussion - "An Emerging Monastic Tradition"
Kwang Myong Sunim JDPS - "The Woman Who Marries a Bear"

Number 2 - Summer: "Christians & Buddhists Practicing Together"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "True God, True Buddha"
Zen Master Soeng Hyang - "The Mustard Seed"
Father Robert Morin, OMI - "Centering Prayer"
Father Kevin Hunt, OCSO - "The Jesus Prayer - Sanctifying the Present Moment"
Brother Benjamin - "Living the Life of Charity"
Zen Master Bon Yeon - Inka speech
Tom Campbell - "Gathering Flowers in a Circle"

Volume 10 - 1993

Number 1 - Winter/Spring: "Dharma Transmission"

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Transmission to the West"
Zen Master Su Bong - Transmission Speech
Zen Master Soeng Hyang - Transmission Speech
Zen Master Wu Kwang - "Revealing the Family Shame"
Zen Master Wu Bong - "Leave Your Mind Alone"

Number 2 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Illness Helps Your True Self"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Outside It is Raining"
Zen Master Dae Kwang - "Finding Your Compassion"
Zen Master Hae Kwang - Inka Speech
Zen Master Dae Bong - Inka Speech
Zen Master Bon Soeng - Inka Speech

Volume 11 - 1994

Number 1 - Spring

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "A Free Gift for You!"
Zen Master Ko Bong - "Meditation is Not Special"
Zen Master Su Bong - "Every Day is a Good Day"
Zen Master Wu Bong - Transmission Speech
Zen Master Wu Kwang - Transmission Speech
Zen Master Su Bong - "How Can You Answer?"

Number 2 - Summer

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "The Three Treasure Structure of Buddhism"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "On the film Little Buddha"
Zen Master Bon Yeon - Obituary for Zen Master Su Bong (1943 - 1994)

Volume 12 - Due to a production error there is no volume with this number.

Volume 13 - 1995

Number 1 - Summer:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Same Day, Same Time Together Become Buddha"
Zen Master Ko Bong - "Diamond Paramita"
Zen Master Dae Gak - Transmission Speech
Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSN - Inka Speech
Grazyna Perl JDPSN - Inka Speech

Volume 14 - 1996

Number 1 - Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Get the Gold"
Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Ko Bong's Try Mind"
Zen Master Dae Kwan - Inka Speech - "Fifteen Years a Nun"
Heila Downey, JDPSN - "Gloria"
Senior Dharma Teacher Neil Bartholomew - "Taking Five Precepts: What Does it Mean?"
Barry Briggs and Pamela Gang Sherman - "Family Practice"

Number 2 - Fall:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "This World Is Not Changing!"
Zen Master Dae Kwang - Transmission Speech
Kwang Myong Sunim JDPS - Inka Speech
William Brown JDPSN - Inka Speech
Heila Downey JDPSN - Inka Speech
Ken Kessel JDPSN - Inka Speech
Edward Canda - "Creating Stone Pagodas"

Volume 15 - 1997

Number 1 - Spring:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "A Whole World Flower Blooms"
Zen Master Dae Kwang - "Become One"
Zen Master Kyong Ho - "The Great Matter of Life and Death"

Number 2 - Summer:

Zen Master Seung Sahn - "Finding Your Lion Body"
Zen Master Dae Kwang and Father Kevin Hunt, OCSO - "Common Ground"
Mu Shim Sunim JDPS - Inka Speech

Volume 16 - 1998

Volume 17 - 1999

Volume 18 - 2000

Volume 19 - 2001