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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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What is this?
In Korea one often practices asking the hwadu “What is this?”. “What is this?” comes from an encounter between the Sixth Patriarch Huineng and a young monk who became one of his foremost disciples, Huaijang.
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03 Dec 2009 |
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Silent Promises
In a secular world that is becoming increasingly complex and heartless, we are becoming bound by such a sea of laws that we can hardly keep track of them. It’s difficult to understand why we need so many laws and regulations just to get on
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02 Mar 2011 |
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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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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
Vegetarian Cats
By Ven. Cheonjin
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16 Jun 2011 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
The Lotus that blossomed on a Chinese Quince Tree
By Ven. Cheonjin
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16 Jun 2011 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
I learned to Laugh
By Ven. Cheonjin
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17 Jun 2011 |
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Benjamin Bell: U.S. Buddhist in Seoul
Benjamin Bell: U.S. Buddhist in Seoul
When Benjamin V. Bell tells people he is a Buddhist, the reaction from most is: "Pure surprise, and usually laughter and smiles, because we literally are all one in the universe (and) they know that.
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21 Jan 2009 |
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Dharma Talk Initiating the Winter Retreat
The long, hot summer has ended and the winter-retreat season is upon us, where we worry instead about the cold. In the ephemeral reality of sentient beings, we never cease worrying about whether it is hot or cold. In reality, once we realize the fundament
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06 Dec 2006 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri by…
Cabbage Worms and Kitchen Garden
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08 Sep 2011 |
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Taeansa Temple
Taeansa Temple is located at the foot of Dongrisan Mountain. In the first year of the King Gyungdeok of the Shilla Dynasty, it was established by three Seon monks. It was originally called Daeansa Temple. Taesansa Temple was the birthplace of Dongrisan Mo
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07 May 2009 |
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Who are you?
Having come down with a cold, I couldn’t properly smell or taste anything. Even though I hadn’t eaten seaweed soup (miyeokguk) for a long time, I was completely unable to know whether it was too salty or too bland. Feeling like that one bright morning, li
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06 Mar 2006 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
Offering Fingernails to Ants
By Ven. Cheonjin
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16 Jun 2011 |
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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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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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