Zen Master Dae Kwang WikipediaDae Kwang Sunim replied, “Yes sir!”
As he was putting on his robe, he thought, “Wow, something strange must have happened in our school.” He got really excited and ran to Zen Master Seung Sahn’s room upstairs and knocked on the door.
Zen Master Seung Sahn: “Come in, sit down.”
Dae Kwang Sunim: “Yes, what is it, sir?”
Zen Master Seung Sahn : (Looking deeply into his eyes) he said, “Everybody wants something.”
Commentary: In our Zen School’s teaching we often hear, “Don’t want anything, then you will get everything.” When you want something very badly you might get it after lots of effort but in the end, you won’t be able to keep it since everything is impermanent and the very act of desiring something divides our mind into a subject/object state of duality. It makes us incomplete instantly. When desire disappears our mind has no subject/object duality and is complete. When the mind is complete everything is complete. We and the whole universe become one, so we get the whole universe back.Dae Kwang Sunim: “Yes, what is it, sir?”
Zen Master Seung Sahn : (Looking deeply into his eyes) he said, “Everybody wants something.”
9 comments:
and what do you want?
It's late now, time for sleep.
and NOW ,what do you want?
Wasn't that enough? Looks like you WANT more.
y r u ATTACHED to my speech?
Dog runs after the bone .
the arrow already past downtown
You must be tired. Get some rest please.
If a zen master called me into his room and said, "Everybody wants something.", I might say, "Can I get you anything?" or "How may I help you?" In reality, though, I would probably be too scared to say much. In that case, I would just bow and say, "Thank you, Zen Master."
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