Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.
Interpretation
Correct meditation involves being fully aware of the present moment and engaging in each action completely.
This quote by Seung Sahn emphasizes the importance of mindfulness and present-moment awareness in meditation. It suggests that true meditation is not just about stillness or quietness, but about understanding and engaging fully with what you are doing in each moment. By focusing solely on the present action and letting go of extraneous thoughts, one can achieve a clear perception of their experiences and a sense of completeness in actions.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, the facilitator quoted Seung Sahn to emphasize the importance of being present.
American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know what women before them had thought and taught. So generation after generation, they [struggle] for insights others had already had before them, [resulting in] the constant inventing of the wheel.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
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