Zen Master Pohwa Part 1

Zen Master Pohwa Sunim and Father James Wiseman give answers to questions asked by commentator Dr. Chuck Mills on television .

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[MakyoAkuma]

Does he make more sense in person? And by "sense," I mean sense in the conventional, deluded, discriminative logical manner. For a person on the very first panel of the 10 Oxherding Pictures, Sunim's way of responding can be confusing and perhaps even off-putting. No offense to anyone.

[MadMonk108]

Keep sitting.

[michaellas1]

when you invite people for a spiritual talk, you don't choose to sit on pub chairs

[MadMonk108]

I've had wonderful spiritual talks on pub chairs...sometimes even in pubs!

[michaellas1]

inappropriate setting... especially the chairs

[MadMonk108]

Where would you have done it?

[dj4ipolino]

here is a great example of just a "talker" & someone who understands. this poor christian trying to show himself as a such nice & polite person, when Zen master just speaking the way he feels & what he feels.. who would you go for a morning walk with? :))

[BluePittbull666]

i like yoga meditation better.

u don't have to waste ur time on a koan.

plus u don't have to be a munk.

[GenuineHeather]

@amn3h23h2 How can you tell if a mountain has gold buried within? Which is more important, the mountain, or the gold?

[amn3h23h2]

how does one know the difference between someone who is truly enlightened and one who is really good at imitating other masters? sometimes it's obvious that the person is the real deal, but other times they seem like they might be but it's unclear. maybe the doubt means they aren't?

this is a genuine question, and any help would be appreciated.

[animejoao]

his problem with the english language is making dificult to make sense of anything he is saying and some of zen quotes loose they sense when translated to another language.

[kw1ksh0t]

Lmao I thought you meant "Zen Master Power" in the title :)

[cesegjbk6732]

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[wonhyoluv]

A reporter interviewed my master's grandmaster (105+ years old). They talked about how monks drinking too much and other bad things. The grandmaster said, "I've only heard about it, I never saw it." The grandmaster asked, "How did you hear?" He replied, "With my ears." The master shouted, "Corpse has ears, but corpses cannot hear!" After that the reporter became a good practitioner. The is within us.

[wonhyoluv]

Between objective truth and subjectivity, it is hard to decide which side is preferred. As the old adage says, "From dust to dust, ashes to ashes," our mortality (or finitude) limits from saying definitely that God is X or human is X. But right now, in this moment, we can only talk about the phenomenon of our speech, our dialogue. This is why I said, "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes."

[EpicGwyn]

Sunim! Holy crap -- I took precepts from Pohwa Sunim in 1997. He helped me through my first kong-an. All dharmas (a) are impermanent; (b) on YouTube.