A Taste of Enlightenment: Stories from Seon Buddhism

Don’t confine enlightenment within Buddhist sutras!

Live happily here and now!

Young man,

when a person sits on a ridge between rice paddies

and keeps one’s mind pure,

that person is a practitioner.

And the place where that person sits is a temple.

That is Buddhism.

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Contents 

PREFACE

Your Awakening Beyond the Awakening of Seon Masters

Part 01

Where Are You Right Now?

Someone Said So

Where Did You Come From and Where Are You Going?

Can You Attain Enlightenment Through Sitting Meditation?

“Chang-Cheong Chang-Cheong”

There Are No Blessings to Be Attained

Bring Forth Your Uneasy Mind

Grave Sin

What Is This Thing That Came?

How to Change Your Fate

Part 02

Do You Know Yourself?

How Can There Be Relics from a Wooden Buddha?

Who Made God?

Making Rice with Sand

Is Cow Dung Sacred or Dirty?

When Caught Up in Our Own Thoughts

How a Teacher and a Disciple Became Sworn Enemies

Holding the Bucket Upside Down

Saying “Yes” When You Really Don’t Want To

Part 03

Reflect Upon Yourself

The Story of Lady Bodeok

In the End, It’s Your Decision

Husband Buddha, Wife Buddha

Go to Another Temple

Awakening in Everyday Life

You’ve Been Deceived but You Don’t Even Know It

Part 04

Develop Strength Through Practice

You Don’t Have to Believe It

Does a Dog Have Buddha-Nature?

What Is This?

A Question That Comes Like a Bolt Out of the Blue

Beyond This World

Do You Know That You Don’t Know?

Part 05

Practice in Your Daily Life

Realizing That Dirtiness and Cleanliness Are Not Two Different Things

Turning Away from Sentient Beings

Who Are the Sentient Beings?

A Life Not Obstructed by Anything

Awakening Can Happen the Moment the Mind Arises

A Golden Opportunity

The Moment Love Turns into Hate

Part 06

Be Awake to the Here and Now

Be a Pine Tree in Front of the Pagoda

Holding onto Myself

Are You Awake?

United We Fall, Divided We Stand

Start by Accepting Reality

No Reason to Blame Others

Part 07

Turn Things That Have Already Happened into

Something Useful in Your Life

The Pain of Death and Abstaining from Killing

True Understanding

The World as It Is

The Present Is the Sum of Past Causes and Conditions

Choice and Responsibility

The Principle of Acceptance

The Path to Loving Yourself as Well as Others

EPILOGUE

How to Live Happily and Freely