Seungsahn Quotes

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, ‘What is the best way of helping other people?’

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don’t worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

Zen is very easy! It’s like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

If you are thinking, you can’t understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said – all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

Don’t want anything. Then you get everything.