letting go, being happy

    There are times when I have more (impossible) questions and complaints than answers. Times I struggle so hard to reconcile all the theories and practices of all the different traditions I’m familiar with that I feel frustrated and quite angry.   And sometimes this bubbles over. Like a child raging in the supermarket, I [...]

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teaching Fina “letting go”

A few months ago, Chong Go Sunim presented me with the idea (challenge) of teaching Fina “letting go,” an important theme throughout Seon Master Daehaeng’s teachings. I think my mouth said something like, “Yeah, good idea,” but my mind was going, “Yeah, right! I’m not even good at letting go!” But in the end, that’s [...]

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Sunday Photo; Buddha Carving at Bomunsa

This Buddha is carved into the granite cliff near the top of the mountain behind Bomun Temple, on the small island of Seongmodo. Along the thin platform a small group of people were doing 108 bows in the summer heat. The really interesting thing is when you follow the path around and on top of [...]

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Do what makes you come alive

I happened to visit the Dalai Grandma the other day and found she had a great quote for me: Howard Thurman  Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Here’s another nice quote [...]

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Sunday Photo; flowers at a small hermitage in Jirisan

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circling the pagoda at Hanmaum

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Sunday Photo; Hanmaum Dharma Hall Mandala

I found this technique for making 360 panoramic landscape images but decided it would be a great tool for making mandalas. I made about 70 of these using different images from Hanmaum and chose this one in the end. It’s made from the first image I used for Sunday Photos here, so thought it was [...]

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Sunday Photo; a rainy afternoon at Beomeo Temple

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