If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must use kong-ans to take away your opinions. When you take away your opinions, your mind is… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy.… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years. — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
