We talk in our teaching about great faith, great courage, great question. To be born takes a lot of faith—if you have a bodhisattva vow, you’re born because you want to help. You’re born because you want to develop your practice and also teach other people how to practice, very
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“Buddhism begins with pregunta. Practicing Buddhism–great pregunta. Enlightenment means become comfortable with pregunta.”
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Part of a dharma talk during the Summer Kyol Che at Warsaw Zen Center
Once there was a sick man, who went for help to many doctors, but they only spread their arms helplessly – they were not able to help him. At last he found a person that we …
Read More...I’ve just written to the Dharma Teacher Association to ask for a leave of absence as a Dharma Teacher. This is a confusing and difficult step for me.
I have not been practicing (sitting, bowing) for a while now. I’m not being a Dharma Teacher, and I’m not …
Read More...The Bodhisattva of the Toll Gates
People often ask me what does the Bodhisattva vow – to save all people from suffering – really mean? A student said to me last week, “I really want to practice and help people. …
Read More...(Holding up the Zen stick.) Do you see?
(Hitting the table.) Do you hear?
If you say you see and hear, you lose …
Read More...Dear Soen Sa Nim,
How are you? I hope you are well, even though you are working so hard. Everyone at the Cambridge Zen Center says hello to you and to our West Coast family.
I must tell you something. This summer, I came to …
Read More...A visiting student asked Seung Sahn Soen Sa after a Sunday night lecture, “When practicing Zen, how can one keep a Zen mind?”
“Do you understand your mind?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, it is just this ‘don’t know’ mind that should be kept while practicing.
“But then is this mind …
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