Dennis Wholey interviews Hyon Gak Sunim - Part 1 of 3

Dennis Wholey interview about Zen beliefs and practices with Hyon Gak Sunim in Seoul, Korea.

Venerable Hyon Gak Sunim - was born Paul Muenzen in 1964 to a family of devout Catholics in New Jersey, U.S.A. His mother is a PhD in biochemistry, and his father was an executive at a prominent American computer company, and later founded his own company. He has eight brothers and sisters.

He is currently the Head Teacher of the Zen hall at 500 year-old Hwa Gye Sah Temple in the Sam Gak Sahn Mountain range, outside Seoul, South Korea. In August 2001, he received inka by Zen Master Seung Sahn the 78th Patriarch in a lineage stretching back to Shakyamuni Buddha.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• zen
• buddhism
• kwan
• um
• seung
• sahn
• korean
• enlightenment

[convanjo]

WHAT A MONK！

[cherylmalone1]

I appreciate your conversation. It is so good to see an American Monk; are there many American monks where you are?

[mettacintena]

Great interview!

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[jayu501]

한국 선불교의 요점을 잘 정리해 주신 현각스님께 감사드립니다.

부디 성불하시기를 기원합니다. _()_

[dtseringdorje]

Hyon Gak Sunim, you need tapasya. You need to go through fire. Pray to Christ &Buddha to give you gift of Holly Spirit. When Holly Spirit dawns upon you there will be effect. Maybe some insight into nature of reality including nature of our mind which is The Mind, The Universal Mind. Your garden has not tuckle weeds yet, that's why there is no realisation. What am I? Observe. Don't hurry. don't run arround. Focus on energy which moves this body. 100% Then you can see, you can feel it. Awakening.

[barnabaspark]

@ZarathuPower God bless you.

[ZarathuPower]

@ZarathuPower God's love supersede all; he would understand us going to Buddhist temple and bow to Budda for he understands our sprituality. I like to believe God as 하느님, rather than 하나님 as in Bible.

[ZarathuPower]

@barnabaspark I think that creating persona of God being endlessly loving and yet justice seeking is deeply flawed in Christianity. The duality contradicts one another. God should be either justice seeking or endlessly loving. I choose the latter; we can't really transpose our views onto God. I bet all the believers or non-believers seek his mercy in light of his endless love rather than seeking themselves to be judged for their wrongdoings. God is love, that's all.

[barnabaspark]

@ZarathuPower Dear, God’s love is boundless. Yet, God’s righteousness is also as boundless as His love. God being righteous demands justice. But, no one can meet His righteous standard; especially laws that have to do with our relationship with Him. The bible tells that the cross (meaning the death of Jesus) represents where the boundless love of God and the boundless righteous justice meet. I hope you find God the person and the truth you have been looking for, in Christ. God bless you.