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The Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Four seasons foundation

San Francisco

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I.                    WHAT IS ZEN?

Correct meditation

Letters from jail

How do I explain Zen practice to other people

Find your center, like a Dharma toy

You must learn from your daughter

Zen is everyday mind

      II          ON WORK

                   A Small noisy room with no windows

                  Memories of Viet Nam

                  Science an Zen

                  Your original job

                  What is your job?

                  A reporter’s penpoint

      III.       ON RELATIONSHIPS

                  Four kinds of Anger

                  The great work of life and death

                  Teaching a daughter

                  I can no longer follow my husband

                  Throw away your Zen mind

      IV        QUESTIONS ABOUT SUFFERING

                  The human route

                  In this world, everbody is crazy

                  A three-year retreat

                  A house on fire

                  Time to move from the center of the roof

V.                FORMS OF ZEN PRACTICE

What is strong sitting?

At sitting time, only sit

Lost mind, one mind, clear mind

Low – class practice

Correspondence with Diana

Undertanding your sickness, then take the correct medicine

VI.              ON KONG-AN PRACTICE

Woof, woof, better than Zen master Jo Ju

The meaning of Kong-An practice

Head of dragon, tail of a snake

Zen and Christianity

The face in the mirror

VII.           PRACTICING ZEN WITH OTHER PEOPLE

Practicing alone

Practicing together

Your gasoline is inexhaustible

Dream of a forsaken journey

Making the great Dharma ocean

VIII.         TEACHER AND STUDENT

Shopping for a teacher

Wild Dharma scenes and broken precepts

Better than a Zen master

Your ideas are your cage

A dream of letting go

Picture teaching

APPENDICES

I.                    “Mind meal”

II.                 Templerules

III.               Heart sutra

IV.              The five precepts

V.                The Zen circle

VI.              Glossary.

INTRODUCTION

Zen master Seung Sahn is addressed and referred to by his students as Soen sa Nim, a title meaning “Honored Zen teacher”. His letters are all signed “S.S”, the initials for Seung Sahn, Korean for “High mountain”. This is the name of the mountain on which Hui Neng, the sixth Zen partriarch, attained enlightenment, and it is the name Soen Sa Nim received when his teacher, Zen Master Ko bong, gave him Transmission of the Dharma.

Soen Sa Nim is the first Korean Zen Master to teach in the West. He was born in 1927 of Christian parents at a time when Korea was under severely repressive Japanese military rule. At the age of seventeen he joined the undergroung korean independence movement, was arrested by the Japanese, and narrowly escaped execution. Upon his release he and a few friends stole several thousand dollars from their parents to finance an abortive attempt to join the Free Korean Army across the Manchurian border.

After world war II, while studying Western philosophy at Dong Guk University, Soen Sa Nim became disenchanted with radical politics as a solution to social problems, and truth. He shaved his head and went into the mountains, vowing not to return until he understood the meaning of life and death. It was at this time the he first encountered Buddhism. After a period of studying the sutras he took vows as a Buddhist monk in 1948, and shortly after being ordained he began an ardous one-hundred –day meditation retreat alone in the mountains.

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