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 …
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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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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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