Precepts Ceremony Talk

Precepts Ceremony Talk

Inka Speech, Jo Potter

[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]

Kindness and cruelty are opposite sides of one form.

[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]

Originally no kindness, no cruelty, and no form!

[Raises Zen stick over head, then hits table with stick.]

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Transmission Dharma Combat

Question: I have a question about this?just before we said, ?Homage to all the Buddhas.? But a Buddha is complete. It doesn?t need anything.…

Good Actors

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…

The Jewel and the Goose

Just before the Buddha died, his students became very anxious about who their teacher would be after he passed away. The Buddha said that after him the precepts would be their teacher. As practitioners of Zen we encounter two lineages of teaching. First, we meet a Zen teaching lineage which…

Four Precepts Enlightenment

Once in Korea a man wanted to take the five precepts. But, he liked to drink. “I want to drink!”, but then he thought, “If I only drink and take the precepts that means breaking the precepts.” So, he got an idea. He invited a friend out to dinner and…

Inka Speech

Is this a good place or a bad place?

[Raises Zen stick overhead and hits table]

Is this no place? Is this a magic place? Is this a special place?

[Raises Zen stick overhead and hits table]

If we make any of…

Dharma Talk with Zen Master Wu Bong at Providence Zen Center Yong Maeng Jong Jin

Wild Dharma Scenes and Broken Precepts

July 26, 1977

Dear Soen Sa Nim,

I hope you are well. Please, as much as possible, try to take care of your body.

I have not seen you in awhile. I, too have been traveling around teaching the Dharma. How is the family on the East…

On the Five Precepts

The Five Precepts

I vow to abstain from taking life.

I vow to abstain from taking things not given.

I vow to abstain from misconduct done in lust.

I vow to abstain from lying.

I vow…