Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. RALPH WALDO EMERSON on Judgment Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was an American poet, essayist, and philosopher, who believed that nature …
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 …
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Zen Master Seung Sahn. Compiled & edited by Stephen Mitchell Hello again, welcome to the final part of this three-part series. We’ll simply pick up from where we left off in part two, as we further draw back the curtains to the teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn. In …
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