07/11/2025
A student asked about enlightenment. Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “Before thinking, your mind was like a sheet of white paper. Then you wrote down ‘one,’ and ‘God,’ and ‘nothing,’ and so on and so forth. When you cut off all thinking, you erase all these names and forms and return to your original emptiness. “What am I?” I don’t know. When you keep the great question, you keep the mind that doesn’t know. Don’t-know mind is empty mind. There are no words, no speech. So there is no one, no God, no nothing, no mind, no emptiness. This don’t-know mind is very important. I is don’t-know, don’t-know is I. Only this. This is your true self. So always keep don’t-know mind.
”The visitor said, “My friends think I’m crazy because I’m interested in Zen.
”Soen-sa said, “Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachments, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.”
The visitor bowed. Someone came and poured out two cups of tea.
Hyon Gak Sunim
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