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PERCEIVE UNIVERSAL SOUND

An Interview with Zen Master Seung Sahn.

we are centered we can control our This interview with Zen Master Seung Sahn strongly and thus our condition and situation. appeared in "The American Theosophist" feelings, (AT) in May 1985. It is reprinted by permis­ AT: When you refer to a "center" do you sion of the Theosophical Society in America, mean any particular point in the body? Wheaton, Illinois. The interviewer is Gary DSSN: No, it is not just one point. To be Doore. Zen Master Sahn is now ,I Seung strongly centered is to be at one with the to his students as Dae Soen Sa referred by universal center, which means infinite time Nim. (See note on 3) page and infinite space. Doore: What is Zen Gary chanting? The first time one tries chanting medita­ Seung Sahn (Dae Soen Sa Nim): Chanting is tion there will be much confused thinking, very important in our practice. We call it many likes, dislikes and so on. This indicates "chanting meditation." Meditation means keep­ that the whole mind is outwardly-oriented. ing a not-moving mind. The important thing in Therefore, it is necessary first to return to chanting meditation is to perceive the sound of one's energy source, to return to a single point. one's own voice; not hear, but perceive. AT: In other words, one must first learn to .;1 AT: Are you using the word "perceive" in a concentrate? 'II sense? ,1/ special DSSN : Yes. Below the navel we have a center Master Dharma Teacher Do Am Sunim I�I means an DSSN: Yes. Perceiving your'voice per­ that is called "energy garden" in Korean .. III ceiving your true self or true nature. Then you We eat, we breathe, and this area becomes a

,."r and the sound are never separate, which means source of power. H the mind becomes still, that you and the whole universe arenever this saves enefgy. The mind, however, is con­ separate. Thus, to perceive our true nature is to stantly restless. There is an endless stream of perceive universal substance. desires for various kinds of experience; sights, Do Am Sunim Becomes Poland's With regular chanting, our sense of being (continued on next page) centered will get stronger and stronger. When First Master Dharma Teacher

saw, and, as often Zen stu­ Mt. in the Mist and Rain Zen Master Seung Sahn is now referred to by happens among Fuji dents, he switched careers: his with his students as Dae Soen Sa Nim. (See note on experience Zen enabled him meditation page 3) practice to.use by George Bowman, Master Dharma Teacher techniques to counsel drug addicts. [Editor's note: excerptsfrom the inka In started a second below were translated Warsaw, Andrzej This talk was excerptedfrom a Dharma Talk Why should we try this experiment? We ceremony given by which was the name Do Am Dorota and edited Susan temple given Sa, given at the Providence Zen Center in January can enjoy the flowers only if we stop long Krzyzanowska by from its founder's Dharma name, Do Am (Sa to look at them. What 1988. enough stops moving? Phillips} . means temple). The Polish Kwan Um Zen First, our body stops moving; next, our scat­ this retreat we have been sit­ School was formed as a separate entity from tered thinking stops moving; then, our dis­ Duringting short, twenty minute rounds June 4th of this year Do Am the North American Kwan Um Zen School. persed and confused awareness stops moving; with the intention of not Ordinari­ OnSunim became the first Master Dhar­ Andrzej has been Abbot of that body since its moving. and we come into full with finally, relationship As Dae Soen Sa Nim often tells his we sit much and allow ma Teacher ofKwan Urn Zen School of inception. ly, longer people this flower. This full and clear ex­ relationship the Polish school is and Poland. Over one hundred students, very strong to stand behind their cushions when they of the flower is not a meditation fifty people perience upon is In addition to the centers in War­ came to the Warsaw Zen Centerto see growing. are in great pain or unconttollable sleepi­ something that is separate from us. Rather, in saw and Krakow already mentioned, there is a ness. we have been fearful of stillness, we forget ourselves and become in­ Dae Soen Sa Nim give inka- the Perhaps center in Gdansk and approximately fifteen af­ timate with the we enter the new students from their flower, boundless authority to teach kong-an and scaring away practice filiated sitting groups throughout Poland. cushions when feel overwhelmed world of prajna. lead retreats- to Do Am Sunim. The they In December of 1986, Andrzej took tradi­ with or boredom. There is, however, In sitting still we are able to receive what inka ceremony took one day before pain place tional monk's precepts at Providence Zen this moment has to offer. We see that this mo- the Polish ten great wisdom to be found in stillness. Sangha's year anniversary Center, and would thereafter be called Do Am rnent, of what our idea about it may regardless celebration. Master Dharma Teacher (and Sunim. than two Before each round of sitting we are Now, less years later, he be, is not can we entirely trustworthy- only Polish KUZS Jacob in another vowing not to move, to sit with whatever ap­ honorary President) would participate momentous trust it, we are it. So we are not to am­ trying his pears in this moment and to relate to it as our Perl joined Dae Soen Sa Nim there for ceremony that would profoundly affect life. putate pieces of ourselves to fit some arbitrary teacher and some are friend. Of course, friends these major events. Representatives from inka ceremonies include an image of what is acceptable. (That would be Traditionally, quite challenging, but nevertheless we are com­ all the Buddhist sanghas in Poland at­ explanation of the procedures to the audience, (continued on 6) mitted to a full with them! page relationship tended, reflecting the very close ties that a period of Dharma Combat in which mem­ bers the the a the groups have. of audience challenge initiate, speech by the new Master Dharma Teacher, The Polish Sangha had its beginnings in and congratulatory speeches. In this the first 1978, when Dae Soen Sa Nim and Jacob Perl Polish inka ceremony, Jacob Perl, who was visited Poland at the invitation of a former born in Poland and speaks the language fluent­ r"'iNSiDEPROORvPQiNT-liiiiii FIRST KYOL CHE BOOK REVIEWS ••••.••••••••• 11 f: member of Zen Center in New York Chogye ly, explained the ceremony and invited mem­ who had returned to his native land. Do Won 7 AN AMERICAN MONK IN KOREA: During �lli By 11111 bers of the audience to engage Do Am Sunim that visit, Dae Soen Sa Nim and Jacob first SOUNDS OF THE WORLD' Sunim in Dharma combat. The following are excerpts !:il MuRyang 12::::[ met Do Am Sunim or, as he was known at that from the Dharma combat exchanges, Do Am Livelihood- KWAN UM ZEN SCHOOL time, Andrzej Czarnecki. :::::: Right ::::: Sunim's Dharma Talk, and congratulatory In 1978, Andrezj was a self-employed ar­ Jacob Perl and Dae Soen Su Nim. illl1 Our Readers Respond 8 INFORMATION •••••••••.••••• 141:j: speeches by tisan producing mosaic tiles. After the visit he became deeply involved in Zen practice and started a Zen Center in his home in Krakow. 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the area of the stomach it will be cor­ There must be no mind! Then there is Soen Sa Nim Interview general appear. rect. One does not have to try to chant from just clarity, and infinite time and space. PRIMARY POINT (Continuedfromfront page) that point below the navel. The sound comes AT: In one of the Buddhist Sutras it says that PRIMARY POINT is published by ���:;:�:�:;�?::i;�:�:�:�:�:�:�*�:�:i:j:[��:j:�:j:�:j:l:�:j:j:j:l:�:j:l:l:l:i;l:�:i:i:l:�:�:�j:j:j:j:j:j:i:j:j:j:�:�:l:rj:j:j:j:j:j:[:j:�:j:j:j:j:i;j:j:j:j:�:�:j:j:�:j:j by itself if it is done correctly. enlightenment may be obtained by turning the Kwan Urn Zen School, a non-profit sounds, smells, tastes, feelings. This turning AT: What is the difference between Zen chant­ 'back the faculty of hearing to the original na­ religious corporation under the direction of outward of the mind in search of sensory ex­ ing and singing? ture, and that this is the most suitable method Zen Master Seung Sahn. The school sup­ perience dissipates one's energy until finally for human comment on DSSN: Direction is what makes the difference. beings. Will you this? ports and arranges the world-wide teaching there is nothing left in the energy garden. schedule of Zen Master Sahn and his Love have what we DSSN: Those are differe�t Seung Thereby one becomes subject to control by out­ songs,for example, only merely "teaching senior issues on con­ call a "love-direction." This is in the words." The is the same as we teachers, publications side conditions or influences, and so loses con­ might idea, however, realm of love and and have been Don't to words. temporary Buddhist practice, and supports trol over his or her life. opposites; hate,liking discussing. cling disliking. Emotions come in, so most singing Just do it! (Laughter.) dialogue among religions. For this reason, our meditation practice is emotional. Chanting, however, means that AT: How? PRIMARY POINT is published three means: 'Do not think anything. In other words, the direction is very clear. Remember the times a year. Subscription costs for one do not use your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body DSSN: Listen. Everything is universal sound: phrase "chanting meditation." The direction or year is $10.00($11.00 for Canada and or mind. By doing this our center gets stronger birds singing, thunder, dogs barking- all this aim here is to obtain enlightenment in order to Mexico, $20.00 for other foreign and stronger, and there is an experience of is universal sound. If you have no mind, every­ save all beings from suffering. countries.) If you would like to become a growing clarity. will be as such. Therefore, thing perceived member of the Kwan Urn Zen AT: And this is not to try for some type of School, AT: How does Zen if at when you are chanting with no mind it is also chanting differ, all, to nearest or to or emotional write the Zen Center the feelings quality? universal sound. If you have "I" then it is "my" from the recitation of mantras? School Director. DSSN: No, I am not trying for any good feel­ sound. But with a mind clear like space, some­ DSSN: In mantra practice there is no (audible) PRIMARY POINT's circula­ ing for me. Chanting is not for oneself. It is for times even the sound of a dog barking or a car average sound. It is internal. One con­ only merely For information on ad­ all beings. That is the difference. hom honking will bring enlightenment. Be­ tion is 4000 copies. centrates on the mantra to oneself. In repeating rates or contact the cause at that moment and the sound be­ vertising distribution, AT: In other it is an of the you on the other hand, we chant out loud words, expression chanting, manager. Bodhisattva's come one. advertising in a group and just perceive.the sound of our compassion? School Abbot: Master Dharma Teacher voice. AT: Is this moment of enlightenment related to samadhi? Jacob Perl When we talk about per­ School Director/Senior Editor: Richard DSSN: Samadhi, as we use sound chant­ ceiving during Streitfeld the term, means one­ ing we mean having a clear mind. This is not Master Dharma mind. This is different from pointed Teaching Editor,: enlightenment. It is con­ Teacher Barbara Rhodes a mind that can be lost, and centration-mind. Samadhi, also different from a one­ Editor-in-Chief/ Advertising Manager: you see, is only a good pointed mind. Bruce Sturgeon feeling for me, not for For consider Advisory Editor: Ellen Sidor example, other people. Moreover, it two people having a good Editor: Mu Sunim is merely a one-pointed Contributing Soeng time together, each enjoying mind, not clear mind. Contributors: Master Dharma Teachers other's company, laughing, AT: Will a lit­ George Bowman, Jacob Perl, & Do feeling good and so forth. you explain tle more about how some­ Am Sunim; Dorota Krzyzanowska; Suddenly a man appears one can attain Susan Phillips; Do Won; Paul Bloom; with a gun and demands by a Gary Synderman; Gary Haskins; money. Instantly the good enlightenment hearing loud sound, as we often Hojun Carol Welker; Anthony Scion­ feeling evaporates and there read about in Zen stories? ti; Do Mun Sunim; Do Sunim; is only fear and distress. Haeng and Dhanajay Joshi. "Somebody please help! DSSN: If you do loud Don't shoot!" The mind, the chanting, for example, and Production Assistance: Rick Meier, and Barbara centeredness is completely if you do it one hundred Ralph Gauvey, Holliday

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"I will thing, Nothing AT: What is the relation between " compassion however, is just to do it totally. kill unless me 'The you you give your money! and wisdom? �ring 'Ieachinq Then what? Only "OM MANI PADME AT: You said in your Dharma talk earlier that DSSN: of wis­ is the function a mantra or Closer'Io Home HUM." This is concentration, one-pointed Compassion in practicing chanting it is impor­ dom; it is the action. Wisdom gives the direc­ tant to the "Who mind. keep "Big Question," namely, Kwan Um Zen School is tion. looking is practicing this mantra?" or "Who is chant­ Finally, suppose that someone with a clear for volunteers to transcribe tapes AT: By this you mean knowing what to do in ing?" Why is this question about "who?" im­ mind is walking in the street and a robber ap­ of Soen Sa Nim and the Master order to help someone- and also 'how to do it portant? pears. Then the response is "How much do Dharma Teachers. New articles want?" That is clear mind. If the man correctly? DSSN: I tell students to find out "What am 11" you and books are in process. This is a This is a kong-an. Before thinking, what are wonderful way to experience the you? One says "ldon't know." But even dharma first-hand, and provide a before speaking, prior to any words or "C is the wis­ much needed service. Paid are ompassion function of thoughts, this "before-thinking mind" is clear jobs mind. occasionally available. Write: it is the action. Wisdom School Director, KUZS, 528 Pound dom; gives AT: Can music be a form of Zen practice also? Rd., Cumberland, RI 02864 or CaD DSSN: Music is not Zen but usually practice, (401)658-1476 the direction." it can be. If the player just plays and becomes one with the playing it can be called Zen. But most of the time the direction is not clear in music. Usually there is some emotional con­ shouts "Give me all of it" there is no problem. DSSN: Right. trol, some direction given by emotions. And here is all of it." In with a clear "Okay, fact, the musician may be trying to control the emo­ AT: So compassion is more than just a warm mind one can use such a situation to teach tions of the audience through his music. In J. cnow Co. feeling toward a person. others. There are a number of Zen stories in fact, we speak of good music as having this New IpSWICH, New HAMPSHIRE 03071 : If that warm of which thieves or robbers have been so DSSN Yes. feeling compas­ sort of effect on other people's emotions. Emo­ and shaken the calm of a sion has no direction, if one's mind is not surprised by response tional music means opposites-mind: wanting clear- minded Zen Master that later clear, there is every chance of doing more they or not wanting, good feeling, bad feeling. But harm than and that will not be returned to learn Zen from him. good; really true Zen music is different. It has been com­ Therefore wisdom is crucial. compassion. to the of a fish and in II So chanting ultimately means clear mind, pared jumping up down AT: How should one chant? the river. TIBET not concentration. In concentration you want long to make something, there is some desire to DSSN: Everyday chanting is important in our AT: Spontaneous? STAMPS focus on one point. This is different than simp­ practice. We do not do it for such a long time. DSSN: Yes, but not emotional. Listening to it Ttbet Stamps-Genuine sheets, color the sound of one's without ly perceiving voice, In the morning we chant for about forty-five reprint sel, Scolt \-5 S10 ea. sct 3/$18 brings a very quiet mind, a very clear mind. separation. minutes., and in the evening perhaps for twen­ That is Zen music. But one should not cling to Lilnguagc of navcns and CIOWS (Oooklel) $3.00 Oil. minutes. 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DSSN: That is the Japanese style. It comes DSSN: Just do it! This analysis into emotion­ Tibet Incense III-with Medicinal Herbs $5. ea. 3/$12. from the hara, the below the naval. al intellectual mind and so on must dis- on next point just mind, (continued page) FREE PRICE LIST UPQN REQUEST 1bis is not necessary. If the sound comes from pRIMARY pOINT November t98B ------3-. moving all over, chasing thoughts. This is not Soen Sa Nim Interview AT: How does just sitting. (Continued/rom previous page) one keep a before-thinking AT: You mentioned that any action can be mind during Zen practice, but is there something about just AT: In the Heart Sutra it says that the Prajna­ sitting that makes it especially good? Why do mantra (mantra of transcendental wis­ chanting? paramita Zen monks so much time at it? Just do spend dom) is the greatest mantra. Would you DSSN: DSSN: For one if one then all explain this? it! H you chant thing, just sits, with all the internal organs of the body benefit. The sit­ DSSN: Yes. They call it 'the transcendental your is because when one energy, thinking ting posture very helpful mantra, the great bright mantra, the utmost has been just sits with the back straight and the mind mantra' and so forth. This means that if one already cut off. still, a great deal of energy is accumulated and simply tries this mantra, GATE GATE all the functions of the body become correct. PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA AT: Because to Some times the body is ill because it is out of with one's whole energy, then it will be the think while balance. So one must first control the body, mantra. Actually, of course, any chanting is to greatest then breathing and mind will automatically be mantra which in this will be "the divide one's you try way controlled. greatest mantra"... for you! That particular energy? AT: Are there any other sorts of sounds or mantra is not special, not different from any DSSN: Right. Sutras which to rhythms that are important in Zen practice? other. But all refer any kind of Simply chanting mantra will that it is heard say special. with one DSSN: One famous Zen Master only the sound of a rooster and was en­ AT: Which means it is special if one believes hundred percent crowing Another Zen Master was that it is. of one's energy lightened. just sweep­ into the ing in the yard when his broom threw a rock DSSN: Correct. A student once asked me "if poured chant is against a piece of bamboo with a loud knock this is true then even the words Coca Cola can already mind, and he was enlightened. He and the sound had be a mantraT' Yes, if believe that empty you really . clear become one. So this matter of sound in Zen 'Coca Cola' is the mantra and mind, greatest practice sound which is not a practice is really very simple. Any will it diligently, it will work for you. state of ig­ do. AT: Isn't there a danger of hypnotizing norance or But in regard to particular sounds that we oneself with a mantra, of putting oneself into a delusion. 'Your' regularly use, there are bells, drums, gongs' sleepy state? before-thinking and so forth. All of these have a meaning. For DSSN: Yes. the difference between this Again mind and 'my' instance, the drum made out of animal skin and the correct method of lies in the practice reminds us about all the sound before-thinking \ saving animals; direction or aim. into a or are the Falling sleepy hyp­ mind of the big bell means saving all beings in the notic state means that the direction is not clear. same mind. different hells. Thus we are reminded about becomes or Practice thus merely habitual Then your sub­ the Bodhisattva's compassion. But this is only mechanical action. So it is to ask . important stance, the sub­ the external meaning. The inner meaning is the am I this mantra? Is it for me "Why practicing stance of this same as what we have been discussing. It is E I>:rE or for other In from 6.1.W Wf<. Y HI(> N(} 6r people?" self-hypnosis paper in front of necessary to perceive the sound, whatever it there is no or mechanical repetition such aim; us, sub­ 19�?- g., is- etc.- and to become my j)"1.,.,,.,,,,,, .l7'I-lI""'.A- ��. Sr.J...;Ji:. '/J"J"h" bell, drum, gong, the aim is to relax or to perhaps merely get stance are all the Drawing a/Zen Master Seung Sahn by Elaine Schmidt Urbain one with it. There is no thought, no separation, some for sort of good feeling oneself. In that same, all univer­ only perceiving sound. This is the crucial case it is to fall into a easy dull, drowsy state, sal substance. point. So just perceive this bell or drum sound, but not so if the direction is clear. AT: Would you say something about the cut off all thinking, and then your wisdom­ But someone will that this universal say between and the breath? However, sometimes if very neurotic relationship chanting mind will grow up. You will get enlighten­ What about the link between the breath and ment and thus save all beings. !I the mind? Ii believe that DSSN: One should not check the breathing. It I "Yes, ifyou really Jil is to all such considerations necessary put 1/1 aside an? just do the chant with all_ of one's is the mantra Correct will then 'Coca Cola' greatest energy. breathing naturally )1' be the result. Just will also do the same sitting "�r andpractice it it will thing. :1 diligently, mean as AT: Do you in Soto Zen where the 11\ main form of practice is called "just sitting" :1 ��:>. workfor you." (shikantaza)? �tion, Zen Master Seung Sahn is i II DSSN: Yes. But it is easy to get attached to sit­ now addressed as "Dae Soen Sa ri���� I ting in Soto Zen practice. Therefore, one must Nim" by his students. The "Dae" is m 1 I understand what this "just sitting" is. Any kind an honorific prefix commonly used come our or of action- 1 people to learn about practice, substance is Buddha, or God, or nature, the chanting, bowing, sitting, lying in Korea when a prominent teacher mechanical of a mantra can do some Absolute and so forth. But it has no down, walking- all these can be Zen practice repetition actually passes a certain age (e.g. sixty good, perhaps helping them to gather more name, no form, no speech, no thought, because so long as one keeps a still mind. But in Soto years) or has achieved a specific energy and become stabilized. it is before all of this appears. Zen practice it is often only "body sitting," that is, where one's body is sitting but the mind is prominence.

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