dizzying

Two great links from last week: A summer day in the city of Angels: Walking meditation with Chong Go Sunim Open Sky: Don’t Get Caught Enjoy!

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Sunday Photo; Buddha Nature

  Our Buddha nature is like a light in a house. Even if you close all the doors and cover all the windows, some light still shines through to the outside. That’s how we know Buddha-nature is there. -Mingyur Rinpoche This photo looks like a double exposure, but it was taken through the huge glass [...]

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Interfaith dialogue – part 2

I’ve been thinking a lot about Marcus’ last post on interfaith dialogue, and sometimes, I think all dialogue is interfaith.  All dialogue is people (or beings) trying to reach out and understand the other.                In Korea there’s a saying, “East question, west answer”, that it, the question and the [...]

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interfaith and dialogue

I’m always delighted when I see examples of genuine contact and interaction between traditions with which I am familiar. All traditions are not the same of course, that would be like saying that all languages are the same, but sometimes they do come beautifully together, as seen in this event described by Kyōshin at Echoes of the Name: [...]

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notes from the workshop

The profound ability within me is awakened not by words but by the determination to save all beings – from The Great Compassion Dharani Phra Pandit Bhikku, who so kindly supported the workshop through Littlebang in the weeks leading up to it, had warned me that some people who sign up for retreats don’t turn [...]

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Sunday Photo; Buddha’s eye

The one “rule” I’d set for myself when posting Sunday Photos was that I would only post images from Korean temples. Well, today, I’ve decided to take a bit of a vacation to Bangkok, where Chong Go Sunim has been for the last few days to attend a short retreat at the Bangkok Hanmaum. He’d [...]

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Our home is Buddha-nature

Last Saturday, Mingyur Rinpoche gave a talk at a small temple in Suwon. His talk was centered around the Prayers for Long-Kindness and compassion. Near the beginning, he spoke a bit of Buddha-nature, and I thought it complimented Dae Haeng Kun Sunim’s teachings nicely; We are all looking for our home. We are homesick. I [...]

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a Bangkok update…

You’d think, from the picture, that we are all in Seoul! But in fact this photo was taken last night in the best Korean restaurant in Bangkok, Jang Won on Sukhumvit soi 12. Twelve people came along to meet and eat with Chong Go Sunim and we were very kindly given a private room and [...]

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The Foundation of Spiritual Practice

                        For practitioners, there’s no such thing as a new year, yet from time to time, it’s worthwhile to reflect upon how we can meet the demands of the world this body lives in and to think about how we can go forward with [...]

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Sunday Photo; Pagodas at Hanmaum

I visited Chong Go Sunim last weekend at Hanmaum and took a few photos on the way out before heading to the subway. It’s not the best photo, but thought it was still a nice one to share~  

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