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Reflections on Chinul – Pointing to your Original Mind

26/05/2008 | Leave a Comment

Some reflections on a dialogue between Jinul Puril Bojo Daesa (보조지눌), also also known as Bojo, and Chinul, a 12th century Korean master and one of his students: Question: In our case, what is this mind of void and calm, numinous awareness? Chinul: What has just asked me this question is precisely your mind of void […]

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Useless Activity?

When it really gets down to it, how much of our activity is quite simply ‘useless’? I don’t mean that it has no use at all on a mundane level, but that it is so conditioned, so led by instinct or habit, so unconscious or below awareness or choice, or simply so trivial, superficial and