Resident monk Kwan Sahn Su Nim has been keeping the Empty Gate Zen Center YouTube Channel updated with short clips from our weekly public programs. Here's the latest:
Also from YouTube, video of our founder, Zen Master Seung Sahn (aka Dae Soen Sa Nim). It's a collection of clips from teaching talks, interviews, etc, put together for his 3-year memorial in 2007.
With all the stories and quotes I've included in this blog about ZM Seung Sahn, I don't know if I've ever posted any actual video of him before. Perhaps these clips are worthwhile in expressing the spirit behind the words of his teaching:
Finally, in today's web surfing I discovered a couple blogs maintained by Barry Briggs, a brother in both Dharma and Computer Geekdom. I've added them to my links list to the right of this page: Go Drink Tea (Koans for Everyday Use) and Ox Herding (Practice and Daily Life).
Traffic to my own blog (this one) mysteriously up-ticked, doubling the usual number of visitors for a couple days last week. It seems that more people are arriving through simply Googling "Random Thoughts," particularly in Canada. Go figure. I offer the above videos and links in the hope that these extra passers-by will find something useful herein.
1 comment:
I enjoyed the video. To the question, What is I, I would respond first that I am an alcoholic. That is an understanding that has certainly helped me in innumerable ways. It is, however, limiting, in a way that is sometimes difficult to describe to other alcoholics who are committed to 12-step recovery. These are a series of understandings that are often very helpful.
I suppose that is not the whole "truth" however, and perhaps there is no truth that is not whole. It has seemed like a limited condition to stop with that one understanding about myself, and not continue with the question.
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