The style is dramatic but the instruction if you listen to what he is actually saying about how to meditate is very good.

Been into sunim for years and love this guy.. just randomly suggested by KZread... Probably been 10 years since in was youtubing his videos. What a nice gift.. so random

So grateful for his teaching ... From 10 minutes to 12 minutes is so beautiful.

The perfect explanation that I have ever heard regarding medication ever. Thank you so much

Deeply thankful for this beneficient enlightenment.Thank you for fantastic video!

I admire Hyon Gak Sunim and his words influence greatly on my way of thinking about life !! Grateful for his existence !!!

Thank you so much. I once had the enlightenment when going to bed. It lasted for 10 seconds i guess. Now, I am looking to recreate it but cannot. I can feel you when you explain this and you really did a great job but for a logical mind it will look all funny.

Thanks for this uncompromising insight on Zen meditation.

A Great teaching from Hyun Gak sunim. Greetings from South Korea.

I return to this video very often. It always teaches me something new or solidifies my understanding.

A journey of consciousness to consciously figure the nature of true self . 🙏

Beautiful...right to the point...🙏🌎

OM Mani Padme Hum. Very calm voice

Amazing way of teaching.. Thank you master..🙏🙏

Thank you soo much!. Have been seeking for it. Need help to understand some sort of experiences in my every day.. there were not many people or place I have found to share it with, in the same like minded,,

Thank you for that, Gassho! I noticed the audio is a bit noisy and partly silent. I'm an audio professional and I'ld be happy to improve the audio for you, please fee free to get in touch.

Respectfully, it appears that Ven. Hyon Gak is referencing Shankaracharya in the beginning. How beautiful to see the confluence of Zen and Vedanta. Two waves in the same ocean.

@theodoreshin5069

5 жыл бұрын

c szabo budhism had its root on hinduism :) They came from same mahanirvani akahda

@rebelram100

5 жыл бұрын

Ekam Sat Jagan Mithyai is the Adi Shankara Quote he is referring in English, I think.

@BDBD05

4 жыл бұрын

both are Adwaita (non-dualistic)!

@Samana358

3 жыл бұрын

Zen was taught by bodidharma of south india of 6th, who went to china and thaught Buddhist meditation later shankaracharya in 8th century cipied and named it as (atma) called it as vedantha later mixed it in bharmanism.

What s beautiful, charismatic monologue that brings clarity!

I hope you are doing well! Seung Sahn is also my teacher. Nice meeting you here. Hope you are healthy. Thank you for your teaching :)

Beautiful explanation..simply

Thank you Hyon gak Sunim for the teaching and a new approach in Dharma! Thank you

~how far can you go when you have already been here no more~

That's truly very simple and easy to follow

thank you for this. it is truly profound.

Thank you, sunim!

Amazing video....I found this treasure...thank you so much for sharing.

" The Mind isn't born belonging to anyone and it doesn't die as anyone's." AJAHN CHAH

Hyon Gak sunim. Respect from Canada.

Amazing video!

يا سلام عليك. Means amazing introduction to Zazen meditation really now I understand it before I use to meditate wrong thank you so much

Brilliant!

Nice one,this sums things up

Incredible video & teaching. Thank you.

Thank you for a wonderful presentation, I will be sharing it with visitors at the Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens, Boca Raton, Florida USA

A nice show, will surely entertain western seekers.

Thank you for this video, this is an amazing teaching, so synthetic and to the point, beautifully explained within the limits of human language. The background music seems to be a Om Mani Padme Hum chanting by Hyon Gak Sunim himself, it's so beautiful, deep and powerful, is there a way to get this chanting on the Internet? Thank you again.

@user-tu3qk2tk6f

7 жыл бұрын

Persona Thank you your appreciation of this. The chanting is something you can easily doing by yourself, no special training. It was not made for background-music," but a tool for you chanting alongside a few times to make your own ability to do it on your own, without support. Watching the whole length of your breath, meanwhile look inside to see, very deep, "Who does this? Who hearing this? What controling my breath? What is this, 'inside'? What. Am. I?" soundcloud.com/mirrorofzen/om-mani-padme-hum It was made free and open and totally available by Sunim for you to use and share, right now. It is good to be chanted in one full entire breath-length. For some people breath length of Sunim's might a little longer than their capacity. For that situations, we have produced a shorter breath length version, actually two shorter breath length versions, and they will uploaded to the SoundCloud site, soon as possible. Sunim is nowadays in a 90-day intensive Zen meditation retreat in Germany, so we are not so fast with things nowadays, he not communicate so much outside. Thank you, and Good luck.

@persona379

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, very much appreciated!

Thank you ... important video

To talk about Zen...already mistake, but I'm really highly appreciated this video.Thanks very much! I'm watching in moments I lost motivation for practice, which is often because I'm alone.

@faltomas1

7 жыл бұрын

You must be wonderful teacher,Sunim!

Thank you🕊

좋은 영상 너무 감사합니다.

~ZEN* has no answer because ZEN* never had a question~if you can see this you will never "LOOK" at ZEN* the same way again~it will see you the same way you see it~

You are almost there...

ありがとうございます😊

The secret of the golden flower is the best manual

Thank you so much. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Amazing thank you

Thank you!

It is neither acceptance nor rejection of your personhood. It's purely noticing of your personhood.

So incredibly perfectly said. I’m addicted to this video right now

"the world is not real. Only true self is real. The true self is the world.“ Where does come this sentence from? Reference?

@sagarn18

4 жыл бұрын

Advait Vedanta

Once a Zen master said, if you are ignorant then all teachings are devil’s words. If you awake then even devil’s words are all true.

thanks

the guy is good to teach it

It seems no videos about zen is about why do zazen as opposed to anything else. Who/what creates this breathing? The autonomous nervous system.

this is an advert for the new macbook, for all who dont know

@derekkase7884

5 жыл бұрын

The reality we perceive is partial but we take it as complete reality that is illusion it's not true. the inner illusion that there is a central self when we look there is endless fragments all saying me and I but there is no driver at the wheel just fragments taking turns all believing to be a central self.

@ginoasci2876

4 жыл бұрын

Derek Kase: everything is fragmented, and joined separately throughout the universe.

@Zenarchist

4 жыл бұрын

​@@ginoasci2876 Yes. Please sign me up for seven of those

Kudus to the speaker. But if you wish to get the Buddhist argument. I think best approach is to start from Advaita Vedanta(Drik drishya Viveka, Asthavakra samhita, comentary of Shankaracharya on 10 Upanishads ). Then approach to Budhist Philosophy. Like the theory of Sorrow(dukhavad) and Anamta, Shunnyota. It takes years to understand even the argument.

What scripture did you read this in?

And theeeeeeennnnnn...

So much change and movement---------that is what Energy IS-----endless movement, endless NEW manifestations----if it does not move endlessly it is dead and NOT Energy........so what is the problem?

座禅💫⭐️💫💫⭐️💫

Q - WHERE is Hyun Gak Sunim now? He left Korea a number of years ago. It was quite a big deal, and public spectacle b/c of his "whistle blowing" re: Chog-ye monks institutional corruption.

@user-nf8pj2tn1b

4 жыл бұрын

I think he is in Europe now

I get into the zen state from smoking marijuana and it freaks me out all the time is this normal? He explains no mind perfectly. I understood everything cos I have experienced it

@alphi3000

5 жыл бұрын

Totally normal. Go deeper. Sit with it. Marinate in it.

@ecoutezmusic

4 жыл бұрын

for me it felt as if my mind was just not under control while high on marijuana. There is a difference when going into a true zen state. I stopped smoking as I was realizing this.

Cool

~who am I before i was born?~who am I after I die?~the answer is with you right now and if you cannot see this truth then you will not know of the two just questioned as those both are an illusion that loves to pull you away from the present~eh?~ ~another point of this is that everything we are doing right now and even later on it is all a past~there really is no future as what is present is real~if what I just wrote about everything we are doing is a past then what did you just do and continue doing it as well~its call the past~and everything we are doing is a wheel which is KARMIC~you cannot escape from it only if you know the script in leaving the cycle to enter the awakening~

I somewhat disagree with Zen, one aspect of it: "like a mirror, it cannot retain any image, it does not ask to be reflected upon, whatever it sees it reflects and whenever the object goes away it is blank" Yeah i think the mind was designed to retain information, think about the future by refernecing the past, and all of those activities, isn't it. Yes indeed, I do believe it to be the case. So just not remembering anything wouldn't be the way perhaps.

9:23 not recommended to try this. Can you turn your eyeball in itself?

You must be wonderful teacher,Dear Sunim!

Wow...!

indeed

Is this cat a performance art type?

WOW DEEP

궁극적으로는 생명존중(도교, 노자=아미타불=무량수불), 대자대비심(불교, 석가모니), 사랑(예수=미륵불)을 깨달아야 합니다.

interesting

I mok ko - What is this?

Very good. Just unaware People find this strange. Jesus was a Kunalini Yogi Master. From age 15 to about 30 he disappears from The bible. So IF you study you May see he went East and was educated by buddhist monks. For an example. The seven churches. Yes that means The 7 chakras. He was cryptic with his language to make it acceptable for his time. But if we are clever we see its only Jesus passing hindu and buddhist knowledge and truth about reality on. Thank you for this video. May you bee Enlightened and Nirvana.

What kind of music is in the background?

@elederiruzkin8835

4 жыл бұрын

It is the tibetan mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, but can't tell who is reciting it. Sorry.

If "I" punch "you" in the face, would that count as illusion?

@Jenny-iz8rm

7 жыл бұрын

The question will come and go.

@KnightDarkFight1980

7 жыл бұрын

So will the pain. All things must pass

@michaelserebreny454

5 жыл бұрын

After "your" "fist" "hits" "my" "face" ("after")... "i" say; 'you didn't hit me.' There will however still be pain.

This was interesting. There are a few points that stood out for me, though. So, if you cannot state anything about the ultimate reality, why than state anything at all? It seems all that you are saying is just an illusion as the world around you. Moreover, if "the one" is utterly unknowable and beyond experience, how can I state something about "The One" in the first place? It seems ot me that Zen is leading to a form of irrationalism.

@1stepofall918

5 жыл бұрын

You can chase the Truth with very rational way. But Your the only and final Question must be "What Am I". Also You can get the only one Answer "I really don't know ! What am I????"

@Gisbertus_Voetius

5 жыл бұрын

@@1stepofall918 For having knowledge at all I must know everything, because one cannot understand the particular without the universal. Or someone who knows everything and is trustworthy tells me the truth. If I ask myself 'what am I', I must first have to know if my experience of myself is true in the first place. How can I know that my senses and my rationality work proper? Withou God, you can't.

@1stepofall918

5 жыл бұрын

@@Gisbertus_Voetius Any Way (also Anyway), Ultimately You must stand at the point asking yourself "What Am I???". God is not the first thing If you don't know yourself. Find Yourself~!! That is the Matter~!! __()_ (Sorry for my poor english) kzread.info/dash/bejne/npeqk8-IgsKtkbw.html

@Gisbertus_Voetius

5 жыл бұрын

@@1stepofall918 The point is: Without God, I can't even ask the question "Who am I". Moreover, God tells me what I am. And he know it because He is God and I am not. He knows everything. I don't. The question "who am I" has already been answered, by God. Everything I add to it makes God a liar.

@1stepofall918

5 жыл бұрын

@@Gisbertus_Voetius Most of people thinks like you, I know. But God is very convenient invention. You define yourself first and God is next. What are you? Did you ever seriously think about you? Your reality is not obvious. I'm not joking. Take a look this - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIWKz819hc7AhJc.html

Don’t know a thing about this. Don’t understand. What kind of a name is that?

전 우주는 하나의 연결고리 가 있는것같아요 카르마요 먹줄?

yet and of course and yet here, presenting a system, a way of being a thing in the cultural eye-I captain; an asian form of formlessness. what little folly will be gained from throwing a hook into a sea of hooks? --- "when you die, can i have that smile of yours?" --roshi endless bummer

Crying...

THE🌏ISILLUSION

What is zen

9:08 10:43

what am i then?

@maatstampij

5 жыл бұрын

this moment

@michaelserebreny454

5 жыл бұрын

Bodhidharna said "i dont know"

I'm not commenting or not commenting.

Veeeeeeeeryyyyyyy good🙏

Mu!

@matthewlemberger499

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe a word or two about "The Awakening" might be in order. The Bulls eye of the target

🙏💙🌎🌈

hyun there's more to the diamond sutra. imagine hyun once you understand this sea of emptiness hyun (through your teaching you can geniuse) you have to find a way to grab a hold of it. just visualizing this sea is hard enough so truly riding those waves is almost impossible these days. hyun! once the mind set is attained the next part is pure concentrated will power detecting on the warrior breath. a combination of meticulated and unmeticulated meditation. flexing and relaxing your brain at the same time. hyun! I can not begin to describe the power. him do you know what happens when you reverse the paradox. not in some bad or self serving way either. I'm a failed God hyun. crippled with darned knowledge and black magic that will destroy the soul. there's not much time. I can't keep the earth going much longer. My powers are barely there anymore. someone has to take my place or else..........the fucking vamos will get what they want. I'm sorry I failed you him and worse of all bhudda

Stucked at now😅

Thanks for your explanation of Advaita-Vedanta. It is the study of the nature of our minds. It is the study originated in India. It is also known as the philosophy zero. I call it the mind of no mind. Jesus once says unless your become like a little child you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. A little child is always in the moment. Zen is the kingdom of God.

@maatstampij

5 жыл бұрын

no concepts!

Subs in español (spanish) pls!

Not of spelling errors now that I reread that. dam!so much for sounding dramatic. ok why did I come on here? oh ya so if there's one person out their that truly understands these videos beyond the normal quota then you have to do is focus so dam hard on it until you just pop into another reality. I'm being literal. the first supernatural power you will gain will be to freeze time and teleport. If you combine the diamond sutra mind set with intense chakra meditation you can become a God if you just truly believe. someone has to or forces that view us as slaves are going to fucking eat us. if there's someone out there reading this just believe truly and you can define the matrix.and maybe just maybe save the world. peace out

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Zen is simply feeling without thinking. Just like Kung Fu is taught to have your body react to violence without thinking, Zen is to have yourself in a state of bliss without having to think or endure any effort. You have already achieved Zen in the womb and in sleep, even better if you are able to to achieve it while awake...oops that's called day dreaming. No need to go to Tibet and study now, move along please.

One illusion asking another illusion questions. This too could be Zen.. :)

I'm watching on 6x speed

Asked of me. What is Zen? Response. Sigh;;;;