The Boatman Calls

The Boatman Calls: A Lesson on Letting Go and Moving Freely “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” — Jackson Kiddard Long ago in China, a monk named John Li set out on a journey to a distant province, but he had no idea how to steer a boat. So, he …

The Story of Sul – An excerpt from Dropping Ashes On the Buddha

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 …