Happy birthday to all Buddhas!
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The end of the third annual Two Traditions | One Family Retreat at Providence Zen Center. Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. We'll see you next year!
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✨ Compassionate response ✨
🪷 Living wisdom from Zen Master Bon Haeng 🪷
💛 What does this moment ask of you? 💛
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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: This is our practice. It is not some great, expanded commitment to the universe. It’s not some hope of how things can be in the future. It is not some longing for things to be as they were in the past. It is only in this moment, responding spontaneously: what can each one of us do that is of service? — Zen Master Bon Haeng
🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Zen Master Bon Haeng 🪷
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We welcomed Zen Master Hyon Ja Alma Potter for our annual 7 day YMJJ retreat (translated as 'to leap like a tiger while sitting'). Over 30 Zen students and teachers from all over the country sat the retreat. Thank you for your practice!
#ymjj #kusz @kwanumzen #kwanumzen
Dharma sisters: two teachers & a director enjoying the calm before the sangha weekend storm.
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Dharma sisters: two teachers & a director.
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The Dharma Hall has new stairs, just in time to welcome you to Buddha's Enlightenment Day! Stay through Sunday to join morning Kido chanting with the online sangha, followed by our usual Dharma Program.
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Registration is open for Buddha's Enlightenment Day & precept ceremonies on Saturday, December 13th. Visit KUSZa website for more information.
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Save the date for Buddha's Enlightenment Day & precept ceremonies on Saturday, December 13th. Visit KUSZa website for more information, or speak to your guiding teacher about precepts.
americas.kwanumzen.org #zen #meditation #buddhism #mindfulness #kwanumzen
Diamond Hill Monastery on a rainy day.
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Snap your finger
stop the world –
rain falls harder.
Jack Kerouac
#kwanumzen #primarypoint #haiku #poetry #jackkerouac #rain #monastery #temple
Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter) talks about focusing on the present moment and acknowledging negative emotions.
View the full video clip on our YouTube channel: buff.ly/9tt9BvM
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All our Sunims captured by Dave in a rare moment of respite from working for the benefit of all sentient beings.
#kwanumzen #monastics #monks #buddhisttemple #buddhist
Kansas enjoyed the company of Zen Master Dae Kwang and Wonil Sunim for a brief moment, but we’ve got them back now and we’re not letting them go again. We’ll see y’all at Winter Kyol Che?
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Join online Zen practice with Zen Master Tan Gong this Tuesday and every second and fourth Tuesday of the month beginning at 6:30 PM EST. First-timers welcome!
RSVP at buff.ly/W7XxlVY
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Sangha weekends show us we're all connected, so we won't blame you if you want to find your small 'i' among the Founder's Day weekend photos. Find the link in the latest issue of the sangha newsletter at buff.ly/ZJcMbk6
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Is this some kind of new Zen ritual? If you're not in the know, check the next issue of sangha newsletter to find out.
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It wasn't all fun and games last weekend even though it felt that way! We had dharma speeches, we had local sangha updates, we had a precepts ceremony, and a newly minted dharma teacher!
Watch the ceremonies on our YouTube channel T buff.ly/fqb1rjc
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This weekend, we welcome the Kwan Um School of Zen sangha for Founder's Day and Zen Fest 2025. Learn more and register at buff.ly/3q92iqQ
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Intimidated by Kong-an interviews? Remembering how many times to bow is the hardest part! Senior Dharma Teacher Carol Boudreau demonstrates Kong-an interview etiquette.
#koan #koaninterviews #kwanumzen #zenpractice
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Our Abbot Kwan Haeng Sunim demonstrates how to do a proper moktak roll!
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Happy birthday Buddha!
Everyone brought their best singing, chanting, and dancing game to Buddha's Birthday!
💪❤️ ❤️❤️🙏
We'll see you in August for Founder's Day!
#buddhasbirthday #kwanumzen
Buddha’s birthday weekend kicks off tonight! Come to Providence Zen Center (or view live on Zoom) and celebrate the birth of the Buddha, and the continuation of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s teachings.
For more info visit americas.kwanumzen.org #buddhasbirthday #kwanumzen
If you want to attain it
You must ride the bone of space
into the diamond eyes
Be careful! Be careful!
From Bone of Space, Poems of Zen Master Seung Sahn
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When you really face the fact that there is nowhere to go and no choice, then you enter your situation completely.
ZEN MASTER WU KWANG
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Silence is better than holiness, so opening your mouth is a big mistake. But if you use this mistake to save all beings, this is Zen.
ZEN MASTER SEUNG SAHN
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Join us for Buddha’s Birthday on Saturday and Sunday April 5 and 6, 2025 to celebrate the birth of the Buddha.
For more info and to register visit americas.kwanumzen.org
#buddhism #mindfulness #kwanumzen #buddha #buddhasbirthday
...don’t check your mind or your feelings or your understanding. Put it all down. Only go straight for 10,000 years, nonstop.
- From a letter by Zen Master Seung Sanh
#zenbuddhist #buddhistquotes #buddhist #justdoit #kwanumzen
‘Kwan Um’ in Kwan Um Zen means “perceive world sound,” to hear the suffering sounds of the universe and offer help.
Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, was originally depicted as male, but usually presents as female in Korea, China, and Japan.
#kwanumzen #kwanseumbosal #bodhisattva