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"What More Could You Want?"
If you asked me when I feel best in my daily routines, I would unhesitatingly answer that it’s right after shaving my head and bathing. Instinctively I feel clear and clean both inside and out, and that’s when I feel most lighthearted. It
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The sound of rain
The rain comes down in sheets. The sound of the rain drifts in through the open window. Like a lonely song, the echoes of the pattering raindrops lingers on. Where am I going? Isn’t it a lonely road I’m treading alone? Listening to the sound of th
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25 Oct 2006 |
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When You Let It Go, You Feel Happy Even With Very …
Essay From The Lotus Lantern, Spring Edition
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07 Jul 2011 |
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The Artistry of Every Day Life
As a human being it is essential for us to create not out of duty but out of inspiration and joy. This brings something different in us, a dimension of imagination, intuition and creation that nurtures us and invigorates us. A few years ago, I was feeling
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09 Mar 2006 |
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Master and Disciple
About a month ago, I went back to the hermitage where I had lived a long time ago to rest for a couple of days. At that time, two aspirants came to me to request that I become their master. With one word, I refused.
After having receive
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11 Apr 2006 |
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Korean Buddhism-Peace on Earth
There’s no doubt St. Louis is a town steeped in Catholic history, but here we offer a quick immersion—no baptism required—in a few of St. Louis’ less familiar religious traditions: atheists, Bahá’ís, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Latter-Day Saints and seekers
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26 Feb 2007 |
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Restlessness
At a red light. At a bus stop. In line at the store. While someone fills the tank with gas. Walking to class. What do these moments have in common? They are all moments in which we find ourselves waiting, a dead space, a moment of no purposeful activity,
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07 Sep 2006 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
Cave Story
By Ven. Cheonjin
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04 Apr 2011 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
A Life of Dedication
Ven. Cheonjin
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01 Jul 2011 |
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"Beginning with the belief that you can do it is i…
The reason we practice Seon and attend Buddhist services is to improve the quality of our lives. We generally begin this task by placing money as the prerequisite for a higher quality of life.
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27 Nov 2006 |
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A farewell is a beautiful teaching
Rain is falling, and with it autumn leaves, indicating that winter is soon at hand. The rain falls at Sudeoksa Temple, deep in the mountains, on the funeral of an old Seon Master. One after another, the rains fall in sheets, like a summer monsoon, and eve
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17 Aug 2006 |
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A Stranger in His Hometown
The supreme, profound, and sublime dharma is difficult to meet even in a billion eons. But now I have been fortunate enough to have seen it, heard it, received it and kept it. I vow to attain the true meaning of the Tathagata.
Homage to the dharmas that
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12 Jul 2006 |
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Meeting a Beautiful Person
It makes you happy to meet a beautiful person. A person who can meet nice people every day is fortunate. In life, you soon realize that it’s not easy to meet nice people. In fact it is quite difficult. As a matter of fact, we tend to meet people we dislik
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12 May 2006 |
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Irrepressible Stories of the Nuns of Mount Jiri
Mouse Food Story
By Ven. Cheonjin
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07 Apr 2011 |
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Contemplation of Sutra in the Seon School
During Ven. Jiyul’s hunger strike, for the first time in years I had the chance to recite the Diamond Sutra communally. On the second floor of the Hall of Paradise at Jogyesa, the Union of Religious Leaders held a separate one-week hunger strike, while su
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10 Aug 2006 |
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