On February 6, 2000, Roland Woehrle-Chon received inka from Zen Master Wu Bong at Berlin Zen Center.
[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]
In the 30th case of the Mu Mun Kwan, the famous Zen Master Matsu is asked: “What is Buddha?” He answers: “Mind is …
Read More...Welcome everybody. We have our workshop in a very busy place here. That is quite good, because we are going to talk about our practice being independent from our …
Read More...This stick and this sound are they a hindrance to your mind?
Lifts stick, hits table
This stick and this sound are they no hindrance?
Lifts stick hits table
If you say, “hindrance,” you are like someone who is bound without ropes or like someone who …
Read More...On August 1, 1993 Zen Master Seung Sahn gave dharma transmission to two Ji Do Poep Sa Nims, Jacob Perl and Richard Shrobe. Here is the opening talk by Zen Master Su Bong:
Thank you all for coming here today to this very wonderful occasion of a transmission ceremony. It’s …
Read More...The following talk was given at the opening ceremony of winter Kyol Che 1983.
It’s very nice to be here in this brand new Dharma room at the beginning of Kyol Che. Soen Sa Nim gave us a 1983 New Year poem last night, and in it he asked, “So …
Read More...March 24, 1977
Dear Jim,
Thank you for your letter. How are you?
You ask me to recommend a practice or meditation. So I ask you, what do you want? If you want something, you don’t understand correct meditation. Then I ask you, what are you? If you understand, …
Read More...One Sunday, while Seung Sahn Soen-sa was staying at the International Zen Center of New York, there was a big ceremony marking the end of one hundred days of chanting Kwanseum Bosal. Many Korean women came, with shopping bags full of food and presents. One woman brought a large bouquet …
Read More...A Student wrote to Zen Master Seung Sahn:
In the Fall, there are leaves on the ground. If they are on a lawn, someone may come out of a house and sweep them into little piles. In the afternoon the wind comes and blows all the leaves away. Many …
Read More...Dharma speech given by Zen Master Seung Sahn at the opening of the Cambridge Zen Center Sim Gum Do Institute.
(Hitting the table with the Zen stick three times)
Everybody has been very busy, but you have all come to the opening ceremony of the Cambridge Zen Center Institute …
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