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Loved this entire talk. Hope many hear this talk and practice deeply!

I also started practicing in 1999!!! 😂

the people change, but the buildings don't, looks well maintained

so many years since you gave me a lift to the cambridge center from providence

"Its not about your beliefs". Dont kid yourself...Buddhism is wall-to-wall beliefs. Even the Kwan Um school. Deviate one inch from those beliefs and you'll find yourself cleaning the temple toilets for the rest of your life.

"What made this path right for you?" Never seek any path based on personal preference. Seek a path to the universal truth that applies equally to everyone.

"All that talk doesnt make any difference. You have to look inside and find the truth for yourself" No Sangha has ever been run this way...because every monk would find a different truth and it would be chaos. Studying the Suttas and Sutras is what binds the Sangha together and keeps its anchor in the Dharma. BOTH meditation AND study are necessary.

As a x- social worker, I fully understand Mark 's responses. And relate to it. Thank you😊

Nice to see this vid I am glad to see this old man.

"So our job is to find our true self, and help the world".....Thank you for this nugget of gold!!!

스님 감사합니다. 스님 얼굴엔 평. 화. 라고 씌어 있는거 같아요. 평온의 큰빛스님.

Thank you, Won Il! What a wonderful Kyol Che you helped create the best environment for.

Thank you Won Il, you truly help bridge the gap of intensive practice for lay people. Being head cook, HDT, water problems, keeping the monastery supplied... that's so much work. It's hard to imagine kyol che withot won il sunim.

Yes thank you Diego for sharing your story! Perhaps one day you could do a video on different sitting styles for meditation practice. I struggle with sitting cross legged.

Lovely to hear your story Diego especially after so many excellent interviews. I always feel so much wisdom and encouragement when watching these conversations.

Thank you for doing these interviews 🙏 Greetings to Providence from Brno, Czechia, and to Kwan Haeng Sunim from Jirka🙂

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Thank you both for this interview 🙏🙏🙏

"To be able to look inside, to look at yourself and have some understanding that it's not just "I" but it is US" 🙏🏽❤️

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Great interview thank you! 🙏

I thought her answer to the last question on pain was fragmented. Firstly what might have been noted is that ALL pain begins in the mind. ALL chronic pain is a function of the brain. The brain wires to feel pain mostly from trauma events that keep playing over and over again until the conscious mind recognizes and creates something different..Non-pain. In my opinion she should have declined the question because her answer was insufficient. People do and have ended chronic pain. This man was looking for hope and got more mainstream medical jargon.

How fascinating. I thought zen was all ethereal. Now I see from the first talk, people are just like me, a combination of in the head and in spirit. This is very inspiring.

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So funny and energetic.

Beautiful. Thank you for the wonderful interview. 🙏

Wonderful. Thank you.

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Most people don't go deep, so they take the outward appearance of religion and think its different, I come from a Muslim background, and most Sufi writings say you should verify for yourself and not believe of follow blindly. Whatever you read should be a confirmation of your experience. But its just a way or style to realize who you are. For me Islam is just a facette or development or evolution or interpretation of Zen, and Zen is just an explanation or evolution or further development of Islam. If you go deep you can find they use often similar if not the exact same words, to point to the same experience, like the face, original face, Being, Reality, One, as it is, Presence, seeing, waking up, realizing, verifying, knowing oneself, unveiling, revealing, revelation, no thought, before thought, closer to you than yourself, etc..

Thank you so much. I've learned a lot from it, and from the Kwan Um Zen.

Gassho. Wonderful to meet you.

My apologies to Rebecca- there was an issue with one of my memory cards and I lost her angle.

These videos are always so insightful. Gassho 🙏

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I was lucky enough to have Rebecca as my teacher for Kyol Che last year. I’ll never forget that week, she’s really amazing. She inspired my practice very much, I would suggest anyone sit with her as your teacher sometime, she had a lot to give. Love Rebecca.

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Good to know about Jason's book! I noted the very similar No Nonsense Buddhism book by another author, similar art and format, but without knowledge of the publishing company's practices in setting up the format, and was like "well... I guess that we really should be doing any and all things to help..." 😅

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Great video! Thanks Diego and Jason!

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Thank you so much for your talk about the passing of your friend, Diego. We’ve lost a my daughter’s fiancé recently in a car accident and this is very helpful.

Thank you for sharing this with us. I am sorry for your loss Diego, but in sharing your loss with not only your community but the larger RUclips community I think you help us all. I also really enjoyed the speaker today. She had a very down to earth and humorous view and way of speaking that made it easier for me to understand!

Very open and insightful interview. The balance of joy and discipline is palpable and articulate in both questions and answers. 🙏🏽❤️

Great interview, I’m very happy you are posting these interviews with our monastics and teachers. Out center in Maine used to do just heart sutra in English and Great Dahrani. Maybe two years ago we decided to switch off weekly, one week HS and GD, the other week is homage to the three jewels and heart sutra in Korean. We also always include kwan seum bosal chanting every week. It’s worked really well for us, and now our sangha knows these 5 chants very well! But every zen center in our school finds their way, it’s really nice.

Thank you for this interview 🙏🏻