Bo Mun Song Hae, Zen Master (Bowman, George)

Soeng Hyang Poep Um, Zen Master (Rhodes, Barbara)

Su Bong Mu Deung Sunim, Zen Master, 1943-1994 (See Hoy Liau)

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How will you carry the sangha?
Dharma combat with the new Zen Masters
Do Mun Sunim, JDPSN: Richard Shrobe, JDPSN
gave the opening dharma talk (oppositepage) and talked
about three kinds of transmission, and today we have
three transmissions. So I would like to ask you: are you
the tail, the family shame, or the blind donkey?
Zen Master Su Bong (Mu Deung Sunim): You have
a head, body , and feet. What is it doing now?
DMSN: Standing in front of you.
ZMSB: Isn't that enough?
DMSN: No!
ZMSB: Arrow is already passed downtown.
DMSN: Thank you for your teaching.
Ken Kessel: Yesterday I had a small job. I carried the
Buddha from Do An Sunim, JDPSN's room to the altar.
That was a small job, but you have a big job. You are
going to be a Zen Master. So I want to ask you, how are
you going to carry the sangha?
Zen Master Bo Mun (George Bowman): You al-
ready understand, Ken.
KK: I don't know how.
2MBM: Sitting here smiling at you.
KK: How will that
carry the sangha?
2MBM: Not enough?
KK: Hmmm ... I don't
know.
2MBM: Go drink tea.
KK: Ohhhh, thank you.
Questioner: My sword
sometimes kills beings and
sometimes saves beings.
The surra says in the whole
world there was one nir­
vana palace. So, where
can you see the nirvana
palace?
Zen Master Soeng
Hyang (Barbara
Rhodes): Youalreadyun­
derstand.
Questioner: No, that
is not the correct answer.
.
ZMSH: Over in the tent is a lot of cake and ice cream.
Questioner: You have two holes in your nose and you
are breathing through the back.
ZMSH: Thank you very much.
Grazyna Perl: I have a question for all three of you
at the same time. An eminent teacher said, "The whole
world is a single flower," and yet the world is somixed up.
Now we have the three of you. Three ZenMasters, please
demonstrate to us how the three of you can make the
whole world a single flower.
ZMSB: Don't mix up the world.
GP: The world is already mixed up.
ZMSB: Already mixed up in your mouth.
GP: I don't think so.
ZMSB: Arrow already passed downtown.
G P: But that is what Mu Deung Sunim does. What
can the three of you do for us?
The three candidates embrace and hold hands.
G P: Thank you very much, that was very nice. a
Ji Hak Sunim and Edward Kwan Rim •
10 PRIMARY POINT Winter/Spring 1993


How will you carry the sangha? Dharma combat with the new Zen Masters

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