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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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Contemplation of Sutra in the Seon School
During Ven. Jiyul’s hunger strike, for the first time in years I had the chance to recite the Diamond Sutra communally. On the second floor of the Hall of Paradise at Jogyesa, the Union of Religious Leaders held a separate one-week hunger strike, while su
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10 Aug 2006 |
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[Book Review] Zen and Psychotherapy
In Zen and Psychotherapy, Christopher Mruk, A professor of clinical psychology, and Joan Hartzell, a psychiatric nurse and practitioner of Zen for many years, explore how Buddhist and Zen ideas could help in the healing of mental health patients.
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02 Aug 2006 |
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Nothing is Routine
One of the thrills of being a young adult is that everything is a first-time experience. My first real job I bounded to with enthusiasm. My first short haircut and manicure felt amazing. My first true love, first kiss, first skinny-dipping in a mountain l
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25 Jul 2006 |
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40 |
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[Poem] War and God?
War is killing, And some people pray to God to win a war, Declare war in the name of God.
That’s sacrilege and nonsense.No God helps people kill People.If there really is such an evil God,He deserves to be called th Devil,Devil-God.
God is your mind,Not
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18 Jul 2006 |
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A Stranger in His Hometown
The supreme, profound, and sublime dharma is difficult to meet even in a billion eons. But now I have been fortunate enough to have seen it, heard it, received it and kept it. I vow to attain the true meaning of the Tathagata.
Homage to the dharmas that
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12 Jul 2006 |
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It’s never the worst
I recently met an acquaintance whom I had not seen in quite a while. She no longer had the young face that I remembered. Hers was the rough face of an urchin, a vagabond, and looking at her left me with a peculiar feeling. She did not have the look of an
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07 Jul 2006 |
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Why are Ananda, Vasubandhu, Asvaghosa and Nagarjun…
If you look closely at the Lineage of Dharma Transmission of the Seon school, one peculiarity catches the eye. From Ananda, to Vasubandhu, Asvaghosa and Nagarjuna, the Seon lineage includes a number of persons who seem incongruent with the image of the ma
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03 Jul 2006 |
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[Counseling] How to live and survive in our societ…
As a college student, the most important goal in reality is to learn and practice for future job after the graduation. Although anyone can choose and change his or her job at any time, it is not easy in actual reality. For most people, what they do for li
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26 Jun 2006 |
9,636 |
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Identity Crisis
"You know the world’s messed up when the best golfer is black [Tiger Woods], and the best rapper is white [Eminem]," quipped the basketball great Charles Barkley. Barkley taps into something important about how it is becoming harder to assume that race, c
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16 Jun 2006 |
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The Art of Meditation
Meditation can be practised in two main ways: either by stopping and cultivating concentration and enquiry in a systematic way using the tools of awareness: breath, sensations, sounds, thoughts and meditative questioning; or by paying attention to life mo
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14 Jun 2006 |
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The Sound of a Bamboo Clapper
I received a call from a fellow monk who just completed a three-month retreat and is off for some rambling meditation. His pleasant voice said he will stop by and visit me on his way. At that instant, I nostalgically thought of a pair of white rubber shoe
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08 Jun 2006 |
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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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The Seon and Doctrinal Schools as Represented by M…
The Mahkasyapa and Ananda that we know and recognize today reflect the values of the Seon schools that emerged much later, and are therefore different from the two who lived at the time of the Buddha. In fact, the current depictions of many people who app
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30 May 2006 |
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30 |
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The Titmouse’s Nest
Some days ago, listening to the "ttok, ttok, ttok" sound from outside my window, I found myself as if lost in a trance. On the way out to water the tree I had been tending, I finally became aware of what had been making that noise. I saw a titmo
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25 May 2006 |
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