30 Years Ago Today
September 7, 2022
The exact moment of my ordination, September 7, 1992, at the Temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. In this gesture, the Teacher brushes some water on
Category: Teacher/Student Relationship
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Reply to a Reader: A Teacher’s Regrets
August 19, 2022
Q: Is there something you realize now, as a teacher, that you wish you realized earlier? Reply: Yes. Sometimes your students’ wishes are purer than your own.
Everything is Only TV
June 17, 2022
I returned to our home temple, Hwa Gye Sah, in the mountains of Seoul after completing a second 100-day solo retreat in the Jiri Sahn Mountains, in the winter of
Teaching Temple Zen
June 12, 2022
In some respects, you need to be a big dog to get people to find the water that is already within:
A SUPER Online Zen Event Tomorrow, June 11
June 10, 2022
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: One of my closest Dharma brothers, the Lithuanian monk, Bo Haeng Sunim, died suddenly on April 22 in his sleep at Hwa Gye Sah temple in Seoul, South
Envied
April 12, 2022
I told John today, perhaps for the first time, that as we grew up together over these last five decades (but really in the first two decades), I always envied
Bad Man with a Candle
December 28, 2021
Zen Master Seung Sahn used to tell us, “A Zen master is like a bad man leading you with a candle in the dark. Sometimes this man does ‘good’ actions
