Dialogue with a Swami: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn One day at a Zen center, a student went up to the swami and said, “So-and-so has diabetes.” The swami replied, “Oh, that’s tough… they should walk two miles every day — that’ll help.” Then the student asked, “How should I focus my mind …
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A Zen Master Short-Answer Zen Zen Master Un-mun always give short answers to his students’ questions. That was the way he taught Zen. Often, he’d use only one word to point to the student’s mind. So, one day a student asked him, when does a chicken’s egg hatch?” and Un-mun answered, “Echo.” Then another student …
The Story of Sul. The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn by Stephen Mitchell “The Great Way is not difficult if you do not make distinctions. Only throw away likes and dislikes, and everything will be perfectly clear.”― Stephen Mitchell. This excerpt is a quoted passage from the classic Zen book, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha …
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