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What is the True Last Word?
Dharma Talk for the 2550 (2006) Summer Retreat by Seon Master Dorim Beopjeon Patriarch of the Jogye Order
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17 May 2006 |
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Meeting a Beautiful Person
It makes you happy to meet a beautiful person. A person who can meet nice people every day is fortunate. In life, you soon realize that it’s not easy to meet nice people. In fact it is quite difficult. As a matter of fact, we tend to meet people we dislik
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12 May 2006 |
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What a meeting the festival is!
The celebration of Buddha’s birthday in Korea must seem to some foreigners like a the blooming of a mysterious and magnificent flower that lurks beneath the surface of the earth for some 360 odd days and then around the end of April comes sproutin
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10 May 2006 |
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Celebratory Speech
With reverence, today we celebrate the anniversary of the coming of the Buddha. Today is also the birthday of all sentient beings in the limitless universe. Sakyamuni Buddha taught that all sentient beings are originally enlightened and in the future wi
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03 May 2006 |
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History of the Lotus Lantern Festival
Origin of Lotus Lanterns
During the era of the historical Buddha Sakyamuni, it was a common practice to make offerings to him by bringing food, scattering flowers, burning incense and lighting lanterns. From this custom evolved the famous story of an imp
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02 May 2006 |
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Dharma Talk in Celebration of Vesak - Year of the …
Today is the birthday of the Buddha, the one who accomplished the transcendent life of no-birth. Though you may search everywhere and never find the place in this world where it exists, within the truth of “everything is Buddha” the essence of reality is
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27 Apr 2006 |
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The Meaning of Buddha’s Birth
The Buddha was born in a garden, under the branches of a tree, in Lumbini, a town situated near the India-Nepalese border 2543 years ago. His mother was going to her family to have her child but he arrived early. He was born in a prominent family of the G
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27 Apr 2006 |
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[Interview] 108 Bows for Exercise: Oriental Doctor…
We would all like to have mental and physical peace. However, it’s not easy. In reality, most people need to exercise to stay healthy. Specialists advise that to stay healthy, you have to exercise until soaked with sweat at least three times a week. How m
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21 Apr 2006 |
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A Happy Smile
I live in an uncommon way. My head is shaved and my clothes are gray. The place I live in is different too. Most people live in a virtual marketplace, but I live in a mountain temple. There is one more difference. I live alone. Usually when people grow up
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14 Apr 2006 |
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Master and Disciple
About a month ago, I went back to the hermitage where I had lived a long time ago to rest for a couple of days. At that time, two aspirants came to me to request that I become their master. With one word, I refused.
After having receive
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11 Apr 2006 |
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Great Faith, Great Courage, Great Questioning
This evening I would like to follow upon what Stephen was saying in the morning about being careful, about energy, and about protecting, but I would like to look at the subject more from the perspective of the Seon tradition. Seon talks about cultivating
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06 Apr 2006 |
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"Let’s take the real one, even if it is only 1 cen…
The whole world, our global village, is in chaos these days with racial and religious tensions as well as disasters killing hundreds of thousands of people. Peace and love are slowly fading away while conflict and confrontation are increasing. Living in s
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31 Mar 2006 |
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The Buddhist Purification Movement in Korea
The Buddhist Purification Movement among the fading Korean Buddhism under the Japanese colonial period was the major historical event for the development of modern Korean Buddhism as well as a significant moment of history for the Jogye Order, the major B
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29 Mar 2006 |
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The Buddha, the first patriarch of the Seon School
One of the first great challenges for Seon historians that the new Seon School faced when it was first introduced was how to put the Buddha into the hall. The writers of the Records of the Transmission of the Lamp wrestled long and hard with this problem.
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23 Mar 2006 |
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Vow to Bow
Past New Year’s resolutions since adult consciousness: floss, stop gossiping, eat a salad a day, floss (I needed to recommit). This year’s resolution: 108 bows a day for 90 days.
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13 Mar 2006 |
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