Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

essence of wisdom, whereby our everyday activities become the focus of our spiritual cultivation.

the general practice of Buddhism, which is to free the mind from its habitual confusion of words, ideas, and concepts with reality, and from all those emotional disturbances and entanglements which flow from this confusion. Thus the ego, time, the body, life, and death are all viewed as concepts having neither more nor less reality than abstract nu

This is the sense of ease which accompanies the absence of the mind desiring riches. This is the sense of ease which accompanies the absence of a mind desiring reputation, etc.”