Reply to a Reader: On Fear
January 11, 2022
Question: Hi, dear Hyon Gak Sunim! Thank you for this opportunity to ask you question… Tomorrow I go to the hospital, waiting for me to surgery. [sic] What do I
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Fucking Zen Master Dae Bong…
March 2, 2021
…is a real fucking mensch. There’s a point to this blogpost, and it has to do with the holy use of the f-word by serious Zen Buddhist monks often when
The True Coronavirus, True Cancer
October 4, 2020
[ Written in February 2020, at the very beginning of the coronavirus epidemic.] Today, February 5, is International Cancer Day. My Mother passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2013, and
No Peace of Mind at All
October 4, 2020
Dae Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Seung Sahn) used to say very much the same thing: “If you have mind, then have a problem. Have no mind, then no problem.”
Don’t. Make. Anything.
August 24, 2020
Dae Soen Sa Nim used to often say, “Don’t make anything!“ It took years and years for the full depth and dimension of this to really sink in. The activity
The Great Work of Life and Death
July 15, 2020
by Zen Master Seung Sahn (1927-2004) In the great work of life and death, time will not wait for you.If you die tomorrow, what kind of body will you get?Is
A Zen Poem by Zen Master Seung Sahn
May 20, 2020
A Zen poem is not merely an aesthetic exercise. It is not an expression of “art,” design, or thinking. A Zen poem is a teaching tool: it begins in opposites’-world
Zen Master Seung Sahn: In His Own Words
May 18, 2020
Here is a video of Dae Soen Sa Nim giving a TV interview in Korea, recorded in 1997 — seven years before his death. In his own words, without the
Messenger Teaching
January 4, 2020
A Facebook Messenger exchange I had with someone I never met, back in 2017. Reading more books just to learn the Dharma is just delaying further the day when you
