Hyon Gak Sunim, a Zen monk, was born Paul Muenzen in Rahway, New Jersey. Educated at Yale College and Harvard University, he was ordained a monk under Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1992 at Nam Hwa Sah Temple, the temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. He has completed more than twenty intensive ninety-day meditation retreats and three arduous hundred-day solo meditation retreats in the mountains of Korea. He has compiled and edited a number of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s texts, including The Compass of Zen, Only Don’t Know, and Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake. He received inga from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2001, and is currently guiding teacher of the Seoul International Zen Center at Hwa Gye Sah Temple, Seoul.
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen
Paperback original / Shambhala Dragon Editions / 416 pages / 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-57062-329-5 / December 1997
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The Compass of Zen is a simple, exhaustive—and often hilarious—presentation of the essence of Zen by a modern Zen Master of considerable renown. In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to...
The Classic Guide to Buddhist Practice by Zen Master So Sahn
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen
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The sacred radiance of our original nature never darkens.
It has shined forth since beginningless time.
Do you wish to enter the gate that leads to this?
Simply do not give rise to conceptual thinking.
Zen Master So...
Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Revised Edition
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen
Paperback / Shambhala Publications / 256 pages / 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
ISBN 978-1-57062-432-2 / March 1999
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Here is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His...
Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Buddhism, General / Buddhism, Zen
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 224 pages / 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN 978-1-59030-340-5 / August 2006
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A major figure in the transmission of Zen to the West, Zen Master Seung Sahn was known for his powerful teaching style, which was direct, surprising, and often humorous. He taught that Zen is not about achieving a goal, but about acting spontaneously from “don’t-know mind.” It...
