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Duo!
The cowherd complained of too much work.
Then please, take a cup of tea.
Duo!
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14 Nov 2006 |
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Bhiksuni’s Role & Responsibility for the Future of…
This year, 2006, is the 2550th anniversary since the Buddha’s birth. This means that Bhiksuni’s history has been nearly 2500 years.
Many Bhiksunis are greatly respected today even though having arisen from a male-dominated and difficult environment.
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08 Nov 2006 |
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The Origin of Buddhist Food
In the Early Buddhism period, all monks had to come out from their retreats such as shaded areas or caves to beg for food. They walked around all over the residential areas until they gathered just the right amount of food, and then returned to their plac
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03 Nov 2006 |
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[Review] Swampland Flowers
A new edition of Swampland Flowers makes available again in English the teaching of Master Dahui, a great Chinese Chan master of the 12th century. Master Dahui (1088-1163) initiated the way the hwadu (C. huat’ou) is used today.
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31 Oct 2006 |
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The sound of rain
The rain comes down in sheets. The sound of the rain drifts in through the open window. Like a lonely song, the echoes of the pattering raindrops lingers on. Where am I going? Isn’t it a lonely road I’m treading alone? Listening to the sound of th
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25 Oct 2006 |
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An Inner Journey in South Korea
Chooksersa, a Buddhist Temple with one of the top Zen Masters in Korea in residence became my home for 3 months after leaving Europe. It was Christmas 2006 that my travel plan suddenly crystallized itself and created space in my life so that I could embar
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20 Oct 2006 |
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Why Practice Buddhism?
I have news for you young people: something bad will happen to you in your lifetime. It could be anything—a breakup, a loved one dying, a car accident—but for sure, something really awful will come your way, if it hasn’t already. That
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17 Oct 2006 |
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The connection between fasting and seon meditation
“Through mistaken desire, we ruin our lives. If we can reduce our appetites, we can also control our desires.”
Because we have only one life to live, we don’t know what to do.
In Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the evanescence o
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10 Oct 2006 |
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Letters Exchanged between Master Seongcheol, Prof.…
Werner Bieder, Theology Professor of the University of Bazel visited Master Seongcheol in 1972 with Gyutae Son. After meeting, they corresponded with Seongcheol about Buddhism.
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05 Oct 2006 |
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Anyone can do it if it means just sitting there an…
After the morning prayer chanting, I sit on the cushion to start meditation. But every time drowsiness gets the upper hand. I can overcome sleepiness when meditation goes well, but when the hwadu is not quite working, I have to lie on my back. We heard
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25 Sep 2006 |
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Mixed Vegetables with Rice
The preparation and taking of temple food is different from that of ordinary food. The cooking process is like that of making medicine: extracting the poisonous elements from wild plants, and then enriching the plants to a high value of nutrition. The way
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20 Sep 2006 |
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[Review] Finding a Joyful life in the Heart of Pai…
In Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain, Darlene Cohen, a Zen priest and meditation teacher, who has suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for twenty-three years shows us how to deal with chronic pain.
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13 Sep 2006 |
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Restlessness
At a red light. At a bus stop. In line at the store. While someone fills the tank with gas. Walking to class. What do these moments have in common? They are all moments in which we find ourselves waiting, a dead space, a moment of no purposeful activity,
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07 Sep 2006 |
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Only This; That Is All.
The following is a part of Dharma talks exchanged between the late Supreme Patriarch Seoam and his disciples, collected in the book "Sound without Sound" compiled by the disciples.
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30 Aug 2006 |
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Dharma Talk of the Supreme Patriarch upon Dismissi…
Master Baoyun (Boun in Korean pronunciation), who lived at the Mountain Luzu in Chizhou district, Anhui province, immediately turned around and sat facing the wall, whenever a monk visited him. Then the monk had to leave. Master Nanquan Puyuan heard about
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18 Aug 2006 |
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