Famous Japanese Zen Master Hashida used to repeat over and over: " To discover awakening is to discover your true self To discover your true self is to meditate & practice Zen To meditate & practice Zen is to study your own self To study your own self is to forget your […]
The 6 Realities of life that our ego centered mind is distorting all the time: Nothing lasts including self. Good & bad stuff are transient. This is part of Life & Evolution. Without the endless circle of birth & death Life & Evolution would not exist. Believing otherwise is an illusion. Nothing can be […]
Are we behaving like Easter Bunnies? From a rabbit mind to a Zen mind We are spending most of our life searching continuously for "outside happiness", running around like 7.244 billions * “Easter rabbits” looking for one egg after another, all lifelong with an endless and never satisfied appetite. We become slave of our craving, desire, expectation, […]
1. Introduction Over the last 30 years or so meditation - like yoga - is enjoying huge interest as THE holy grail which is going to solve every personal problem such as stress, anxiety, sexual dysfunctions, poor self image, chronic fatigue, poor relationships, better mental concentration and many more.Based on unofficial figures the numbers of […]
Is meditation supposed to be boring? May be so. Think about it. During several minutes we sit still like a statue and focus on our body, on our mind anchor and incoming thoughts like a drill digging into the mystery of our inner self. This daily meditative exercise is just the opposite of what is […]
"Happiness from outside does not last, happiness from inside lasts forever". This is a modern translation of what the Buddha said some 2500 years ago and repeated many times by the Dalai Lama. Easier to say than to understand or to do. Where do we get our happiness? If good health is excluded I bet you that 99.9% of our […]
"Zen practice is bringing our mind and body together in the present moment to reflect mindfully and without judgment on living beings, events and surroundings as they are in reality and not as our ego-centered thoughts want them to be". Thanks. Ven. Ji Gong Sunim.
"We are free, every one of us. We are born free, and the bondage, restrictions, edges and limits that we find in our life are self-created by our mind. Beside the Law of the Land and Morality there are fundamentally no edges, no boundaries. Zen practice is an experience which has nothing to do with believing. Zen practitioners are not believers per se since […]
Sorry for the poor quality! 1) At birth: a living being #1 is created with consciousness (C) + the 4 other components. The 4 others components are the body (B), the 5 senses (S), the emotions (E) and the mental (M). 2) At death: among the 5 components (aggregates) only consciousness survives. It returns to […]
Having problems about Zen terminology? Below is one the best online glossary of Zen Buddhism terms. Just follow the link. Please note it may take times for the glossary to appear. http://www.zenguide.com/principles/zen_buddhism_dictionary_glossary_terms.cfm?selected=A Thanks. Ven. Ji Gong Sunim.
