Zen Master Seung Sahn, Gainsville

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  • Seiryu
    Member
    • Sep 2010
    • 620
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    Zen Master Seung Sahn, Gainsville

    I found this video. And although I am not too into his style of teaching and presentation it is a very good presentation of the teachings and teaching style of Zen Master Seung Sahn.

    So I thought I would share.





    In Gassho
    Humbly,
    清竜 Seiryu
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    • Jundo
      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
      • Apr 2006
      • 40350
      #2
      Shouldn't that be in "no gainsville"?

      Master Seung Sahn was an interesting figure. He taught in the Korean Rinzai Tradition of Koan Centered Zazen, but went on to develop his own Koan curriculum that most believe was based on the Japanese Hakuin way from Seung Sahn's time in Japan. This is unlike the traditional Koan Practice in Korea, which is to focus on one Koan only through one's whole Buddhist career. His approach was often quite different from Dogen's Way, though ultimately ...

      ... as is said around here, "Often very very different, but always precisely the same; never the same, yet never ever different".

      One can read more about Master Seung Sahn and his Kwan Um School here, from page 99 ...

      Zen Master Who?
      http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=y0Z8x4pjfrIC&pg=PA106&dq=zen+master+who+seung+sahn&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z8FtUsDXKM7GkQX6l4DoBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=zen%20master%20who%20seung%20sahn&f=false
      Zen Master Who? is the first-ever book to provide a history of Zen's arrival in North America, surveying the shifts and challenges to Zen as it finds its Western home. With the exception of parts of Rick Field's How the Swans Came to the Lake, there has been no previous attempt to write this chronicle. James Ishmael Ford begins by tracing Zen's history in Asia, looking at some of Zen's most seminal figures--the Sixth Ancestor Huineng, Dogen Zenji (the founder of the Soto Zen school), Hakuin Ekaku (the great reformer of the Rinzai koan way), and many others--and then outlines the state of Zen in North America today. Clear-eyed and even-handed, Ford shows us the history and development of the institution of Zen--both its beauty and its warts. Ford also outlines the many subtle differences in teachings, training, ordination, and transmission among schools and lineages. This book will aid those looking for a Zen center or a teacher, but who may not know where to start. Suggesting what might be possible, skillful, and fruitful in our communities, it will also be of use to those who lead the Zen centers of today and tomorrow.


      Gassho, Jundo
      Last edited by Jundo; 10-28-2013, 03:25 AM.
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        • shikantazen
          Member
          • Feb 2013
          • 361
          #3
          404 — Kwan Um School of Zen
          http://www.kwanumzen.org/teachers-and-teaching/resources/sitting/


          Four objects to focus as per their teaching:

          - Breath
          - Sounds
          - Mantra
          - Koan (Who am I?)

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