http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/Korean Buddhism, Jogye Order, Zen, Zen Meditation, Seon, Seon Meditationkohttp://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=502test... 2008-01-14 11:17LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2008-01-14 11:17http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=498 Copy right (c) BTN( www.btn.co.kr) “I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who attended my lecture at that time. As they recommended that the lecture be given to the general public as well, I decided to give the lecture through television,” he said. “I consider Diamond Sutra to be...2007-06-15 13:45LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2007-06-15 13:45http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=497Clean off the mirrors in our minds As the Venerable Seongcheol taught us, in these treacherous times, we must always stay awake.November 05, 2006 Early in the morning on Nov. 4, 1993, the Venerable Seongcheol of the Korean Buddhist Jogye Order passed away. He died at the age of 82, 58 years after he was accepted as a Buddhist monk. Seongcheol used to meditate sitting up all night. It was probab...2007-06-15 09:54LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2007-06-15 09:54http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=495You Already Understand! Haengwon (Seung Sahn) Zen Master Bodhidharma, founder of the Zen lineage, is said to have described Zen this way: A special transmission outside the scriptures / Not depending on words and letters / Pointing directly to the human mind / Seeing into ones nature and attaining buddhahood. Theres no better example of Zens direct, penetrating spirit than these exchanges betw...2007-06-05 11:04Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism2007-06-05 11:04http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=483 The disciples received the Fifth Patriarch’s directive and returned to their rooms. They discussed amongst themselves and said, “There’s no need for us to purify our minds and compose a verse to present to the master. The head monk, Shenxiu, is our teacher. After he receives the dharma, we will naturally rely on him. So, we don’t need to compose a verse.&...2006-11-30 15:18LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-11-30 15:18http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=471 One day the Fifth Patriarch Hongren summoned all his disciples to an assembly, and said, “I say to all of you: the birth and death of people in this world is a grave matter. Nevertheless you, disciples, make offerings all day long, seeking only the field of blessings (punyaksetra) but not liberation from the sea of suffering of birth and death. If you are all deluded to your own self-...2006-10-27 17:19LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-10-27 17:19http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=464 The Fifth Patriarch asked me, “Where are you from that you have now come to this mountain to pay obeisance to me? What do you seek?” I answered, “I am a peasant from Xinzhou in Lingnan. My only purpose in coming from so far away to pay obeisance to you is to seek the buddhadharma.” The Fifth Patriarch Hongren reprimanded me, saying, “You are a X...2006-09-20 15:31LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-09-20 15:31http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=457If one dwells in enlightenment, one has no anxiety and worries, enjoying unhindered happiness free from envy. Whether one has just started on the Buddhist path or whether one has been practicing for a long time, if one enters directly into enlightenment, one can realize a mind which can be used freely, without entanglements. In the state of enlightenment, there is no distinction between self and ...2006-08-21 17:25Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism2006-08-21 17:25http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=452I am going to bring up a somewhat critical example regarding Korean Buddhist society. These days, Korean monks say among themselves that “persons of the Way (Doin) are sages only from a distance, not from up close.” Actually, this statement disparages all sages and is among the worst type of ridicule. To say that “persons of the Way are not sages up close” ...2006-08-07 17:01LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-08-07 17:01http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=443 The great master Huineng said, “Spiritual friends, contemplate the Mahaprajnaparamita Dharma with a pure mind.” The great master, without saying anything further, made his own mind and spirit clear. He kept silent for a good while, then spoke again: “My spiritual friends, listen quietly. The ancestral origin [sic; this actually means ‘originally an offici...2006-07-07 10:13LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-07-07 10:13http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=440 The great master Huineng ascended the high dharma seat at the lecture hall of Dafan monastery and expounded on the Mahaprajnaparamita Dharma while giving the formless precepts. At that time, there were about 10,000 monks, nuns, Daoists [sic, religious], and lay followers beneath the dharma seat. When the prefect Wei Chu of Shaozhou 韶州, thirty officials from various departments, and Confucian sc...2006-06-22 10:56LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-06-22 10:56http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=438As human beings, everyone must find meaning in their lives. This applies even for ordained monks. For us ordained monks, the meaning of our lives is ‘seeing the nature and achieving buddhahood.’For some, this aspiration is merely a desire, but for others it is their firm belief, which they cultivate wholeheartedly.Our purpose now in studying the Platform Sutra is to re-affirm ...2006-06-15 18:11LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-06-15 18:11http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=220(Congratulatory Speech at the Ceremony for the newly appointed Spiritual Leader of the Meditation Center)Hello! How nice to see you all here. Today I would like to talk about “How to Approach Hwadu Practice.” How can we study hwadu effectively? That is the question! The purpose of hwadu is to help practitioners break through views based on conceptual understanding of the dharm...2006-02-28 21:18Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism2006-02-28 21:18http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=194I wish to talk about the meaning and essence of Seon, which is the meaning of meditation. As it is not an easy topic, I will first talk about the essence of Seon.The essence of Seon is impossible to discuss or even to speak about, let alone listen to. I cannot show the essence of Seon using the spoken word. Therefore I will resort to another method. I will explain the essence of Seon by the metap...2006-02-02 14:44Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism2006-02-02 14:44http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=165Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2006-01-13 14:28LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-01-13 14:28http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=164Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2006-01-13 13:13LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-01-13 13:13http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=162Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2006-01-10 18:15LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-01-10 18:15http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=161Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2006-01-10 14:24LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-01-10 14:24http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=160American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who attended m...2006-01-10 14:20LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2006-01-10 14:20http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=124I am glad to see all of you here at Jakwangsa today. I know it is not an easy thing to come on your day off, but all of us, at some point, inside, realize there is something more we have to do. There is something more than our daily work, our daily lives. There is something more than our jobs. There is something more than having a good time. This thing we all each one of us feels, in Buddhism we ...2005-12-20 17:21LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2005-12-20 17:21http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=123(Holding the stick in the air and hitting the table) Mountain is water. Water is mountain. In the Heart Sutra we just recited it says, “Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.” This is the fundamental Buddha’s teaching of impermanence, which means everything is changing, changing, changing. (Holding the stick in the air and hitting the table) No mountain. N...2005-12-20 17:18Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)Dharma TalksKorean Buddhism2005-12-20 17:18http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=115Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2005-12-04 21:25LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2005-12-04 21:25http://www.koreanbuddhism.net/rss/link.asp?rss_type=content&rss_seq=92Friend, American Seon master Hyeon-gak is giving a lecture on “Diamond Sutra” in English through Btn, a cable TV channel, beginning Aug. 22, 2005and lasting 12 weeks.This isthe first lectureat Seoul International Zen Center, Hwa Gye Sa July 3th, 2005.“I once gave a lecture on Diamond Sutra eight years ago in a temple and I still study the sutra with the people who a...2005-11-28 19:46LectureKorean Buddhism(mailto:webmaster@koreanbuddhism.net)LectureKorean Buddhism2005-11-28 19:46