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.
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
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