Zen Master Seung Sahn used to say, “There are two kinds of Zen students: student who likes the teacher, and student who believes in the teacher. This first kind of

Zen Master Seung Sahn would teach us, “If you say, ‘I can!’, then you can. If you say ‘I cannot!’ then you cannot. Which do you like? It’s your choice.”

I have posted this before. But its point requires a lifetime of attainment and re-attainment, from moment to moment. If there can be any single reason why I still feel

This is a photo, seldom published or spoken of, of a significant moment: the last ever robing of Zen Master Seung Sahn as a living being, formally among his Sangha.