Learn to Meditate Meditation is an essential spiritual practice for settling the mind and connecting with our true mind, which is clear, calm, and tranquil. Through meditation practice, we can better understand ourselves and appreciate more of the things and people around us as we meet them from a place of calmness, compassion, and wisdom.Continue reading “Learn to Meditate”
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Sitting Meditation
Sitting Meditation Sitting meditation is a practice that, in the mind, calms wandering thoughts and manifests the true nature. It is also a method that, in the body, causes the fire energy to descend and the water energy to ascend. As delusive thoughts are calmed, the water energy will ascend; as the water energy ascends,Continue reading “Sitting Meditation”
Chanting Meditation
Chanting Meditation Chanting meditation is a method of practice that focuses the mind that is distracted among the myriad things into the one pointed mind by reciting a simple phrase or Sutra. Because the mind of a beginning meditator is not settled, chanting meditation is a very efficient method to calm down one’s mind. HowContinue reading “Chanting Meditation”
Walking Meditation
Walking Meditation Walking Meditation can be the link between sitting meditation and your daily activity. It is a wonderful initiation for beginners into the art of meditation. When you are able to practice walking meditation very well and maintain the meditative state of mind as you walk, you can apply that skill to your dailyContinue reading “Walking Meditation”
Koan Meditation
Koan Meditation A kōan (公案) is a spiritual question that is used to focus one’s mind when practicing meditation by giving rise to the questioning mind as to the nature of ultimate reality. The koan is meant for contemplation and defies rational understanding. It works to exhaust analytic thinking and the dualistic mindset. Therefore, aContinue reading “Koan Meditation”
What is Won?
Il Won (One Circle) is the Dharmakaya Buddha, the origin of all things in the universe, the truth that all buddhas and sages enlightened to, and the original nature of all sentient beings. sotaesan What is Won? Won or Il Won Sang is the origin of all things in the universe, our authentic true self toContinue reading “What is Won?”
Sotaesan
Being into nonbeing and nonbeing into being, Turning and turning in the ultimate, Being and nonbeing are both void, Yet this void is also complete. sotaesan Sotaesan, The Founding Teacher Park, Chung-bin (1891-1943), better known as Sotaesan, was born the son of peasants on May 5, 1891 in Korea. Sotaesan’s path of the awakening toContinue reading “Sotaesan”
Won Buddhist Teachings
Won Buddhist Teachings Ilwonsang Il Won Sang (O) is the circular symbol of the Dharmakaya Buddha and the Buddha Nature of all beings. In Won Buddhism, the image of the human Buddha is replaced by Il Won Sang (O) which represents the perfect nature of the Buddha’s heart and mind that is not different fromContinue reading “Won Buddhist Teachings”
Won Buddhist Practice
Won Buddhist practice puts more emphasis on using our mind. Sotaesan, the founding master of Won Buddhism, said that a living religion or practice is not separate from our ordinary lives, and that Buddhadharma exists for the sake of our life, not the other way around. Won Buddhist practice is characterized by a balanced andContinue reading “Won Buddhist Practice”
New Year Service
신정절: 2022년 1월 1일 토요일 11 am
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