Odklepávání popela na Buddhu: Učení zenového mistra Seung Sahna – Mitchell Stephen A. (2020)

Zen teaching is like a window. At first, we see only a vague reflection of our own face in it. Over time, however, our vision gradually clears, and along with it, zen teaching becomes clearer to us as well. Until it is finally quite clear and transparent. We can see through it. We see all things: our own face. This book is a collection of various texts from the time when Zen Master Seung Sahn was active in the United States. It contains dialogues, stories, formal zen interviews, dharma talks, and correspondence with students. The words are always appropriate to the situation at hand, with each of these situations being just a game – and at the same time, it is a fundamental question of life and death.
Zen Master Seung Sahn is the first Korean Zen master who lived and taught in the West. He attained enlightenment at the age of 22. After five years of service in the army, he became the head of a commission tasked with reforming the Korean Buddhist order of Chogye and was the abbot of five temples in Seoul. He taught in Japan for nine years and founded temples in Tokyo and Hong Kong. In 1972, he arrived in the USA, without money and knowledge of English, and began working as a washing machine repairman in a local laundromat. Over five years, he gradually established Zen centers in American cities such as Providence, Cambridge, New Haven, New York,…