Student Sharing

When Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Barabra Rhodes) started giving koan interviews in America, she found that her students were more interested in asking her about their personal issues than answering the koans. She asked her teacher, Zen Master Seung Sahn, what she should do. Zen Master Seung Sahn advised, "Put a gun to their heads."

The Su Bong Zen Monastery held a series of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year. Like previous years, we held the midnight bell hitting ceremony on the new year eve, which was followed by chanting on the first three days of CNY, led by Sifu, Andrzej JDPSN and sunims. On 13/2, we went to the Gak Su Temple to celebrate CNY with our friends and family.

Thankful for the support of teachers and sunims of Kwan Um School of Zen, as well as sunims and guests from Korea and dharma friends of 10 directions, activities to commemorate 20th Anniversary of Su Bong Zen Monastery was held successfully in November. We would like to share the happy moments with you here!

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近幾年，每次我看見大樹，心裡都充滿感慨。即使如何的風吹雨打，他們仍然屹立不倒；再猛烈的陽光，他們的綠葉亦閃閃生光非常燦爛；鳥兒可以自由自在地在它的懷抱裏唱歌，樹葉在微風中諳律地跳舞，非常美麗。大樹彷彿就是有一顆不動的心，每刻都很平靜，什麼都能接納及包容，不用擔心何時要離開，因為他們即使枯萎了，樹幹仍會留在同一個地方。我真的很羨慕，心底裡希望下一生至未來世永遠都能成為一顆大樹，不用再擔心任何的變遷。