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Jan 1 01
Good Actors
A dharma talk in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Here’s a question for everybody: How can you get out of samsara, how do you get out of suffering? We’re really lucky because we have a good practice situation. We can help and support each other, come here freely and nothing is stopping …
Read More...Dec 1 00
Inka Speech
Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.
Sound is silence. Silence is sound.
Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.
No sound, no silence.
Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.
Sound is sound. Silence is silence. What is original sound?…
Read More...Sep 1 00
Inka Speech
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
Don’t know mind is compassion mind, compassion mind is don’t know mind.
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
No don’t know mind, no compassion mind.
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
Don’t …
Read More...Oct 1 99
The Birth of Zen
Excerpted from a workshop at the 5th Whole World is a Single Flower Conference held at Providence Zen Center in October 1999.
One day, 2500 years ago, the Buddha sat on the peak of Vulture Mountain with a vast assembly of more than 1200 monks who were waiting for Buddha …
Read More...Sep 1 98
Inka Speech
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
When Buddha was born he said “in the heavens above and the earth below only I am holy.” But William Blake said “Everything that lives is holy.”
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
Bodhidharma said “No …
Read More...Apr 1 96
Inka Speech
(raises stick and hits table)
Do you want to see this? If you want to see it, your eyes fall out.
(raises stick and hits table)
Do you want to hear this? If you want to hear this, your ears fall off.
(raises stick and silently touches the stick to …
Read More...Feb 1 93
Empty is Clear
Many people try to control their thinking. First, they try to solve their thinking. They try to make bad thinking correct. They try to make themselves right. That’s usually the first course. The meaning is – “if I can justify my thinking, I can justify my life.”
But after many …
Aug 1 91
Big Suffering
Often Zen Master Seung Sahn says, “If the direction of your life is clear, then your whole life is clear. If your direction is not clear, then your life will always be a problem.” The reason we practice Zen is to understand ourselves completely, attain our original nature, and save… Read More...
Nov 4 76
Four Kinds of Anger
Berkeley, California
November 4, 1976
Dear Soen Sa Nim,
How are you, and how is it to be back East again? We miss you here! I hope the seven-day Yong Maeng Jong Jin is going well.
It is strange how things happen, sometimes backwards. I felt very clear after the …
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