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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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"Beginning with the belief that you can do it is i…
The reason we practice Seon and attend Buddhist services is to improve the quality of our lives. We generally begin this task by placing money as the prerequisite for a higher quality of life.
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27 Nov 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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"What More Could You Want?"
If you asked me when I feel best in my daily routines, I would unhesitatingly answer that it’s right after shaving my head and bathing. Instinctively I feel clear and clean both inside and out, and that’s when I feel most lighthearted. It
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22 Feb 2011 |
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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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<NEW> Let Your Space Be Filled with Compassi…
2:40 a.m., Without fail, the temple begins the day with the sound of Ven. Hyenhyen’s moktak (wooden fish). Use of an alarm clock is prohibited and we must depend on the “clock of our awakened mind” to begin our day...
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01 Dec 2011 |
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A farewell is a beautiful teaching
Rain is falling, and with it autumn leaves, indicating that winter is soon at hand. The rain falls at Sudeoksa Temple, deep in the mountains, on the funeral of an old Seon Master. One after another, the rains fall in sheets, like a summer monsoon, and eve
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Standing Under a Tree
The following is one short essay from the recently published anthology of 65 early works, compiled and translated from the late Ven. Beopjeong’s first twenty years of writing, 1965-1985. "The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind" was published on Feb. 1, 201
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21 Jan 2011 |
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The Offering Remarks on the Buddha’s Birthday
Written by the Ven. Dobum Sunim, the President of the Sangha Association of Korean American Sangha in East Coast
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01 Jun 2006 |
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Buddhist Center Serves Free Lunch
Wongaksa
Buddhist
Center
Serves Lunch for the Elderly around
Pagoda
Park
There is no one at home. The wife passed away a few years back. The children are grown. They don’t call much. The old man is alone. Where does he go? Without a
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21 Dec 2008 |
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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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Leaving Home
All of those who have experienced life as foreigners here in Korea have gotten used to a certain level of inquisitiveness from people on the street. Some of the most common questions asked are, of course, “Where are you from?”, or “Do you like Korean fo
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30 Oct 2007 |
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Three Seon trainings
Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom
Master Kusan of Songgwangsa used to say in his Seon talks that it was essential for Seon students to train in ethics, meditation and wisdom. These were the basis for any Seon practice. Most importantly they had to be pr
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03 Dec 2009 |
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Let us Rejoice even in the Smallest Merit
Let us Rejoice even in the Smallest Merit
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04 Mar 2011 |
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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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