The Founding Master said, “For anyone born into this world, no matter who it is, the moment of death will inevitably come. Thus, today I will explain to you,as someone who is close to the dying person, how to send on the spirit at the time of a person’s entering nirvāṇa, as well as how the person whose spirit is about to depart should prepare for death. Listen closely to these instructions! With..

The Founding Master said, “There are many Ways we must follow, but if you reduce them down, they are nothing more than the Way of life and the Way of death. While we are alive, if we do not understand the Way of life, we will not be able to actualize the value of living. And while we are dying, if we do not understand the Way of death, it will be difficult to avoid baleful destinies.”

The Founding Master said, “There are many Ways we must follow, but if you reduce them down, they are nothing more than the Way of life and the Way of death. While we are alive, if we do not understand the Way of life, we will not be able to actualize the value of living. And while we are dying, if we do not understand the Way of death, it will be difficult to avoid baleful destinies.”

A disciple asked, “It seems that the Great Master Chinmuk was attached to wine and women. Is this true?” The Founding Master said, “I have heard that the Great Master Chinmuk liked drinking rice wine. The story goes that one day he went to get himself a bowl of rice wine and drank a bowl of brine by mistake, but it is said that he thought nothing of it. On another occasion, it is said that he wa..

The Founding Master said, “Buddhas and bodhisattvas have a Way of being free from hindrances and remaining autonomous regardless of whether they are walking, standing, sitting, reclining, speaking, keeping silent, active, or at rest. Accordingly, they readily know when to be at rest and when to be active; when to become large and when to become small; when to be bright and when to be dark; and w..

The Founding Master began a levee project to reclaim tideland at Killyong-ni and, while supervising the work, he remarked, “Now you nine members, who are not accustomed to such heavy labor, are at the inception of a great religious order that will require you to undergo unusual hardship. But the joy it brings must be just as great, since it is always more meaningful to be an initiator and to car..

Only a few months after the Founding Master began edification, he already had more than forty followers, from whom he chose nine people with exceptional faith and sincerity to be exemplary disciples for his newly established order. He said to them, “Human beings are the masters of the myriad things; the myriad things are for use by human beings. The Way of humanity is grounded on benevolence and..

The Founding Master said, “The study of any science has limits to its use, but if you learn how to make the mind function, this study can be utilized without a moment’s interruption. Therefore, mind practice becomes the basis for all other studies.”

Today, with the development of scientific civilization, the human spirit, which should be making use of material things, has steadily weakened, while the power of material things, which human beings should be using, has daily grown stronger, conquering that weakened spirit and bringing it under its domination; humans therefore cannot help but be enslaved by the material. How would they avoid the..

Happy New Year, Dharma Friends! We hope you are having a great beginning of the new year. Last Monday 1st January, We gathered in our dharma hall for our very first service of the New Year. 2024 is 109 Won Buddhist Era. As WE 109 is the embark of the 4th Generation of the Order of Won-Buddhism, it was even more meaningful to us. We began with meditation and the prayer for the New Year and greete..