Koan Collection – Cookies of Zen – Korean Zen Patriarch Hye-Am and Zen Master Myo Vong
Cookies of Zen - Simple and Sudden Way to Enlightenment
Cookies of Zen: On a return visit to Korea in 1984, Master Myo Vong had the great good fortune to meet Venerable Master Hye-Am, the living patriarch of Korean Zen (Son), who, at the age of 98, had sought an opportunity to come to the United States to come: Master Myo Vong became his western bridge and his Dharma successor. Venerable Master Hye-Am's teaching was simply to find "the Church in one's mind and God in one's self"; a traditional teaching of self-cultivation; Long forgotten by many in the East and long lost in the West.
The Church in one's own mind and God in one's own Self!
Cookies of Zen - The Bridge to the West
Self-nature is the place where you live; where you eat. Show yourself correctly by expounding self-nature. If you can answer these questions, you are actually exposing your self-nature. If you do not have self-nature, you cannot answer.
But of course you already have the self-nature, so you know how to respond. When you speak, when you move your hand, your body, when you walk, these things are no different from self-nature. Simply recognize that your physical body itself is not separate from your own self-nature; no difference.
- Mount Sumeru
- The Iron Wheel
- Losing Body and Extinguishing Life
- Patriarchal Zen
- Four-Line Verse
- Brighten Eye by Re-Examination
- Speaking, Silence, Movement and Stillness!
- Deok-San's Bowl
- Ten Different Kinds of Diseases From the Koan "Mu"
- Sound and Color
- Three Three in Front Three Three in Back
- The Essence of Bodhidharma's Coming from the West
- Pine Nut Tree in the Garden
- Decayed Tree and Cold Boulder
- Snake Pit
16. Transmitting the Robe and Bowl
17. Four Servants
18. Suddenly the Self-Nature is Seen
19. The Sixth Patriarch
20. Knocking Down the Flagpole
21. The Flower of Enlightenment
22. Sharing the Seat
23. Putting His Feet Out of the Coffin
24. What is the First Phrase?
25. Comfort and Consolation
26. Seven Wise Women
27. Thirty Blows
28. Seven Steps
29. Iron Yoke Around the Neck
The Sacred Sword - Koan & The Logos
The sacred sword (logos, living word) is ever in hand: death-dealing and life-giving. It Is there it, it is here, simultaneously giving and taking. If you want to hold fast, you are free to hold fast. If you want to let go, you are free to let go. Tell me how it will be when one makes no distinction between host and guest, and is indifferent to which role one takes up.
