Our True Great Teacher-Zen Master Seung Sahn Haeng Won

  

So you must keep very strongly a closed mouth and you must learn from the blue sky, the white clouds, deep quiet mountains and the very noisy cities. They are like this, that is your true great teacher.

-Zen Master Seung Sahn Haeng Won 
所以你必须尽你所能地闭上你的嘴巴,然后向蓝天、白云，幽静的山和喧闹的城市学习。它们只是如此。这便是你真正伟大的老师。

-崇山行愿禅师

Wheel of suffering-Zen Master Seung Sahn

  

If you cannot control your karma, then it will control you, not only in this life but for numberless lifetimes in the future, making good and bad, happiness and sadness, and leading you around and around. This is called the wheel of suffering.  

-Zen Master Seung Sahn
如果你不能控制你的业力，它会控制你。不只今生，未来的无数世，制造好坏，喜悦悲伤，带着你转圈圈。这就是苦的循环。

-崇山禅师

Keeping Just Now Mind-Zen Master Seung Sahn

  

Most important is how do you keep just-now mind?

-Zen Master Seung Sahn
最重要的是如何保持当下的心？

-崇山禅师

You True Path-Zen Master Seung Sahn

  

If you want to find your true way, then you must not be dependent on words, on Buddha, on God, or anything. You must be dependent on your true self.

-Zen Master Seung Sahn

如果你要找到你真正的道路，你不能依赖文字，佛陀，上帝，或任何东西。你要依赖你的本性。

-崇山禅师

Sitting Meditation-Zen Master Seung Sahn Haeng Won

 

Sitting is cutting off all thinking; not-moving mind is correct sitting. Some people say zazen is correct body sitting. This is important, but most important is how you keep just-now mind. Zazen is part of Zen, not the whole of Zen.
-Zen Master Seung Sahn Haeng Won

坐禅就是切掉所有思维；不动心是正确的坐禅。有些人说坐禅是正确的坐姿。这是重要的，但是最重要是如何保持当下的心。坐禅是禅的一部分，但不是禅的全部。
-崇山行愿禅师

Turn our mistakes into wisdom-Zen Master Seung Sahn

 

 We should not get attached to our mistakes, but learn from them and grow into wisdom! 
-Zen Master Seung Sahn

我们不应该执着我们的过失。我们应当从中学习，把它们转化成智慧。
-崇山禅师

What is True One? – Zen Master Seung Sahn

 

After a talk, a student asks Zen Master Seung Sahn, “If everything is one, why do you need to give to someone else?”
“Why do you make one?”, asked Zen Master Seung Sahn, laughing.
开示之后，有一位学生问崇山禅师：“如果一切即一，为什么我们还需给予他人东西呢？
“你为何制造一呢？” 崇山禅师笑着问道。

No Good, No Bad, What is it?

Long ago, an eminent teacher said, “Don’t think good and bad. At that time, what is your original face?” This is famous kong-an. Don’t make anything; then you will get your original face and get everything. If you don’t understand your face, only go straight — don’t know.

I hope you only go straight — don’t know, which is clear like space, soon attain your original face, get enlightenment, and save all beings from suffering. -Zen Master Seung Sahn

很久以前，有一位大德说过：＂不思善，不思恶，在么时，你的本来面目是什么？＂这是一个很有名的公案。不要制造任何东西；你就会证得你的本来面目，会得到一切。如果你不知道你的本来面目，直进—不知。

我希望你只是直进—不知，如虚空一样清明，早日证得你的本来面目，开悟，然后普度众生。-崇山禅师

Practice after my Death

Shortly before Zen Master Seung Sahn passed away, he was giving a Dharma talk.

A student asked him, “How will we continue our practice after you die?”

Zen Master Seung Sahn answered: “If your direction is clear, your practice will become even stronger after I die. If your direction is not clear, your practice will die with me.”

在崇山禅师圆寂不久之前，禅师给过一个开示。

有一位学生问他：＂请问禅师，您圆寂之后，我们要怎样持续我们的修行？＂

禅师回答：＂如果你清楚你的方向，我死去之后，你会更加积极修行。如果你不清楚你的方向，你的修行将会同我一起死去。＂