Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

by Zen Master Seung Sahn
Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

by Zen Master Seung Sahn

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Overview

Here is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His frank and funny style, familiar to readers of Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, is seen here in a most intimate form. The beloved Zen master not only answers questions on Zen teaching and practice, but applies an enlightened approach to problems with work, relationships, suffering, and the teacher-student relationship.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834826526
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 04/06/1999
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 294,307
File size: 688 KB

About the Author

Zen Master Seung Sahn (1927–2004) was the first teacher to bring Korean Zen Buddhism to America, having already established temples in Japan and Hong Kong. In 1972 he came to the United States and started what became the Providence Zen Center, the first center in what is now the Kwan Um School of Zen, which now includes more than eighty centers and groups worldwide. His students called him Dae Soen Sa Nim, "Great Honored Zen Teacher," and he was the 78th Zen master in his line of dharma transmission in the Chogye order of Korean Buddhism. His books include The Compass of Zen, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Only Don't Know, and The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life.

Read an Excerpt

"Don't
worry—just try. Trying is better than a Zen master, better than Buddha, better
than God. It is already great love, great compassion, and the great bodhisattva
way. Don't check your feelings; don't check your mind; don't check your
understanding; don't check outside. Then there is no inside, no outside, no I,
no you, no they: you are one with your situation. That is very important."
—from
Only
Don't Know.


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