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"Each of us is utterly enmeshed with everything else in this universe." Quote by Zen Master Dae Kwang. #zen #interdependence #thinking #ego #illusion #notseparate #ignorance #kwanumzen

If you look at what we do in formal Zen meditation, for example—besides the fact we sit in a particular way and become still—we essentially don’t try to get rid of any thought or state of mind or any particular feeling. Likewise, we

"All the things we get, one day we will lose." Quote by Zen Master Dae Kwan. #zen #impermanence #buddhism #primarypoint #mind #kwanumzen

"Don't be distracted by inner peace." Quote by Zen Master Bon Hae. #zen #innerpeace #seeclearly #meditation #community #sangha #kwanumzen

"If you have this category called helping people you can’t help anyone. It’s like if you’re a parent of a baby or a toddler and you hear them crying in the middle of the night you don’t sit there and say 'how can I help t

"Understanding is not good or bad. But what are you?" Quote by Zen Master Seung Sahn. #zen #meditation #buddha #truenature #beforethinking #zmseungsahn #kwanumzen

Join us on Sunday for our fourth panel discussion of the Whole World Is a Single Flower Conference 2020: "Get Enlightenment and Help All Beings" with Zen Master Bon Soeng, Zen Master Bon Hae and Hye Tong Sunim JDPS and moderated by Kathy Pa

Buddhism teaches us that we make our own life. We're quick to blame other people. We're quick to make a dream life of our likes and dislikes. We fall into a fantasy, and sometimes it's said, "like a drunken stupor". We get lost in a drunken

"We follow Buddha's example." Quote by Zen Master Wu Bong. #zen #buddha #wakeup #justnow #moment #kwanumzen

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