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26/07/2025

What Are You?

Zen means the understanding your true self - what are you?

Join the summer 21-day Zen Challenge online from and liberate attachment to thoughts, emotions, past, present and future - and become infinite in time and space. Experience your own deeper stillness and quiet while learning to meditate wherever you are. foundational Zen Buddhist teachings that can help ground your practice and help digest your experiences. Connection and support of a global community and int’l Zen teachers. Join via link: https://www.kwanumzenonline.org/challenge
Including participating guest teachers:
AnJay Stec
Kathy Park
Haeng Won Soen Centre
Colin Beavan

24/07/2025

What Are You?

Zen means the understanding your true self - what are you?

Join the summer 21-day Zen Challenge from The Kwan Um School of Zen and liberate attachment to thoughts, emotions, past, present and future - and become infinite in time and space. Experience your own deeper stillness and quiet while learning to meditate wherever you are. Foundational Zen Buddhist teachings to guide you as you learn to meditate, help ground your practice and digest your experiences. Connection and support of a global community and int’l Zen teachers. For more info & to join now: https://www.kwanumzenonline.org/challenge

15/07/2025

Tune into the latest episode of the Spark Your Bliss podcast with host Kathy Park, "Zen in a paper dixie cup: A conversation with Tim Colohan on why good and evil have no self nature." Colohan is a Zen teacher at Dharma Zen Center in Los Angeles, CA, U.S. in the The Kwan Um School of Zen tradition in the lineage of the late Korean Zen master Seung Sahn. He shares his personal story of being a former Catholic, an artist, being a member of the LGBTW community, doing 90-day kyol the (intensive Zen retreat) in Korea, and how Zen become the source of liberation and fulfillment in a world attached to name, form and identity. To listen: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/2a2a1f5a-276c-444c-b88c-6801b829702a/

15/07/2025

Join the 24HR Online Zen Retreat and develop consistency in your Zen meditation practice. Includes 1:1 consultation with a teacher, in a supportive intensive practice opportunity in any time zone, right in your home or on the go. Build your monthly intensive retreat regimen by doing blocks of hours to match your schedule. To register go to: https://checkout.kwanumzenonline.org/retreat/

The Kwan Um School of Zen program
AnJay Stec Rebecca Otte Bori Sa · Bori Centre Zen

09/07/2025

When awake, we wander through life controlled by our thinking. Dreaming originates from our karma body which imitates the past actions of our form body.

You should be able to practice as if dreaming and awake are one.

Zen Master Man Gong (1872 - 1946)

깨어 있을 땐 생각에 이끌려 삶을 떠돕니다.
꿈은 카르마의 몸(업신, 스관의 몸)에서 피어나며,
형상의 몸이 남긴 옛 자취를 따라 춤춥니다.

꿈과 깨어남이 둘이 아님을 알고,
그 둘을 하나로 삼아 수행해야 합니다.

만공 선사 (1872 - 1946)








#만공스님
#법신
#꿈에서깨어나라
#오직모를뿐

08/07/2025

How you practice is how you perfume the world.

- Dr. Larry Ward, senior mindfulness dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition & author of “America’s Racial Karma”

당신이 수행하는 그 향기로
세상은 물들어 갑니다.

- 레리 워드 박사, 마인드풀네스 플럼비레지 지도법사 및 ”미국의 인종적 카르마“의 저자 (America’s Racial Karma)













Photo: Courtesy of Dharma Gates x Woljeongsa Seeding a Wise Future Zen Conference & Retreat Program 2025 participants’ photos

08/07/2025

Check out the The New York Times article on “doing nothing” and Kathy Park JDPSN’s take on really “doing nothing”~ Thanks to NYT writer Yan Zhang for including Zenseoul 젠서울.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/world/asia/space-out-competition-seoul.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk8.Jqe7._tBPaNp5lFBR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I spent 90 minutes attempting to empty my mind and slow my heartbeat at a “space out” competition. It was harder — and weirder — than I expected.

17/06/2025

Why do you have two eyes?

During an interview at the Los Angeles Zen Center, Zen Master Seung Sahn said to a student, “Human beings have two eyes, two nostrils and two ears, but only one mouth,” He then asked her:

1. Why do you have two eyes?
2. Why do you have one mouth?
3. Why do you have two ears?

-from The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life, Kong-an No.4
Find your eyes, ears, mouth - and use them well for all beings.
로스앤젤레스 젠 센터에서 공안인터뷰 중, 숭산스님은 한 제자에게 이렇게 말했습니다:
“인간은 두 개의 눈, 두 개의 콧구멍, 두 개의 귀를 가지고 있지만, 입은 하나뿐입니다.”

그리고 그는 그녀에게 물었습니다:
1. 왜 두 개의 눈을 가지고 있습니까?
2. 왜 입은 하나입니까?
3. 왜 두 개의 귀를 가지고 있습니까?

-세계는 한송이의 꽃: 365일 공안집중에서 No.4
눈, 귀, 입을 꼭 깨달아 세상을 위해 잘 쓰십시오.
#숭산선사 #공안 #선불교 #원점 #통찰

15/06/2025

https://podcasts.apple.com/kr/podcast/spark-your-bliss/id1813888011

Welcome to the new podcast for dharma practitioners, Spark Your Bliss - conversations that dive into the deep questions of life and death, insights from meditation practice, and helpful Buddhist teachings to digest our experiences hosted by Kathy Park, co-guiding teacher of Zenseoul. For the welcoming episode, Kathy PSN shares her own experience of stepping into the dharma stream unexpectedly upon her return to her native country, South Korea many years ago. What began as the first deep transformation of her life became the spark that continues to fuel her inner lamp to now shine on others.

Kathy Park JDPSN is Korean and began Zen meditation in 1999. In 2016, she received inka (permission to teach) in the Kwan Um Zen tradition in the lineage of Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn. She is a Ji Do P**p Sa (Dharma Master), and is the co-guiding teacher of Zenseoul in S. Korea with her husband, Andrzej Stec JDPSN. As one of the founding members and the abbot of Kwan Um Zen Online - the Kwan Um Zen online sangha since 2017 - she spearheads the remarkable growth of a robust online Zen meditation community with her global team.

Focusing on providing opportunities for meditation and Zen teachings in the midst of challenging circumstances of everyday life, she strives to make available the practice of Zen 365 days a year, provide well-curated teachings and retreat programs to deepen our experiences, and live access to global Zen teachers all within reach, no matter one’s circumstance or location.
She is also a creative consultant, helping organizations and individuals to develop personal and professional vision and growth with a foundation in spiritual and contemplative principles.

To connect more to her teachings, visit:
Websites: https://zenseoul.org/en/ and https://www.kwanumzenonline.org
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/kathy-park-26b1b0120
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20/05/2025

Join the upcoming online Zen meditation retreat to build consistency in your meditation habit and ability to strengthen mind-body health. Asia portion led by Kathy Park JDPSN 06:00 - 14:00 KST. Get the one-on-one consultation with a teacher to clarify your personal meditation practice regimen while immersing in a full day of group practice with a global meditation community. To join go to https://checkout.kwanumzenonline.org/retreat/
A program ☸️
온라인 하루 명사 리트릿 - 일상에서 쓸 수 있는 명상을 지속가능하게 집에서 유지할 수 있는 지도와 개인 상담이 포함된 프로그램입니다. 06:00-14:00 KST 아시아 부분 지도: 캐티 박 (일화) 지도법사 (한.영 지도). 참가 신청: https://checkout.kwanumzenonline.org/retreat/
#젠명상 #리트릿 #오직모를뿐 #마음치유
A The Kwan Um School of Zen program.