Finding the True Self - Softcover

Jinje

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ISBN 10: 099610271X ISBN 13: 9780996102711

Publisher: Lotus Lantern Books, Inc., 2014

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Through Dharma talks, Q&A, essays on practice, and conversations with leading scholars, Master Jinje speaks with urgency and compassion about the central work of his life: finding one's true self. In a style at once encouraging and uncompromising, he shares his stories and stories of past masters, revealing again and again that realization is possible. We cannot but question whether or not we are ready to embark on this arduous journey. Most vitally important for us to walk this path is having the correct attitude. Infinitely deep faith and ferocious courage reaching the sky are the keys. If you possess these qualities, attaining enlightenment is as easy as touching your nose while washing this face. A lifetime monastic and now the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist order in Korea, Master Jinje guides tens of thousands of monks and millions of laypeople on the path to enlightenment. His work is an expression of his commitment to spread Dharma through Seon practice.

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Master Jinje: A lifetime monastic and now the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order, the largest Buddhist order in Korea, Master Jinje guides tens of thousands of monks and millions of laypeople on the path to enlightenment. His work is an expression of his commitment to spread Dharma through Seon practice and to collaborate with religious leaders for world peace.

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Master Jinje uses words of teaching, verse, and art as aids to reveal the possibility of penetrating and understanding full knowledge in a moment. Jinje Sunim s teachings, as presented in this volume, are traditional and yet contemporary in application. Our mind is ever a focus for his attention because it is the mind that is the seat of experience. However, he reminds us that the search for our mind can never result in finding a fixed and unchanging entity. Every moment is a new experience; this is true whether we are in a mountain monastery or standing in the midst of a vast city that roars around us. In this volume, Master Jinje shares his thoughts and insights about this method with the goal of bringing awareness of Seon practice to people everywhere. His message is shared in poetic formulations that are as pleasing to read as they are instructive. --Lewis Lancaster, Chen Professor Emertius of Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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