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Contents
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama · xiii |
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Author’s Preface · xv |
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Introduction The Enlightened Teacher, Master Baek Sung Wook · 1 |
Studying under the Master · 2 |
Following in the footsteps of the Master · 9 |
About the Master’s teaching · 12 |
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One The World That Is Created By The Mind · 17 |
Sound of a bell · 18 |
The image in the mind · 19 |
A millionaire’s karmic retribution · 20 |
Surrendering your delusions · 22 |
Surrender even the sins · 24 |
Scolding taints the mind · 26 |
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Two Surrendering the Mind to Buddha · 27 |
Joy at seeing your karmic hindrances · 28 |
Not holding on to delusions · 31 |
Surrendering while watching the mind · 33 |
Surrendering the mind to Buddha · 36 |
Analogy from the Avalokiteshvara Sutra · 40 |
Three poisons: greed, hatred, and arrogance · 42 |
Mind’s poison and body’s disease · 46 |
Six perfections · 48 |
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Three Purifying the Mind, Enlightening the Mind · 49 |
Surrendering the hatred · 50 |
Holy teacher Tulle · 52 |
Purifying the mind, enlightening the mind · 54 |
The person who enlightens me is my Buddha · 56 |
Surrendering the attachment to the body · 57 |
Purify anger to achieve Buddhahood · 61 |
The burning fire · 63 |
Check the door lock at the third hour · 65 |
About the practice time · 66 |
Discriminating minds occur in units of three · 68 |
See your own face and surrender your faults · 69 |
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Four Be True to the Present Present · 71 |
Be true to the present present · 72 |
Minding the store · 74 |
Not losing your mindfulness · 76 |
A positive mentality · 77 |
The mind that shelters no impossibilities · 79 |
Be free from preconceived notions · 80 |
Hell is when you have a strong ego · 82 |
Only my mother · 83 |
Everyone helps me · 84 |
Do not stop people from coming to you, |
nor stop them from leaving you · 86 |
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Five May You Accumulate Much Merit · 89 |
Don’t just hope to be well off, |
plant the causes to be well off · 90 |
Great merit of no limit · 93 |
Surrender even your merit · 95 |
You cannot give your merit to someone else, |
nor can you accept someone else’s merit · 96 |
How to sustain oneself in the future · 98 |
Purify your needy mind, cultivate your plentiful mind · 99 |
Not imprinting poverty on one’s mind · 100 |
Black puppy · 101 |
Palace grandmother · 103 |
Earning three times your wage · 106 |
Why money is necessary · 108 |
Offering a meal to a dharma seeker · 110 |
Offering and accepting devotion · 112 |
The mentality of not being indebted · 114 |
A bowl of rice · 116 |
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Six Reverence, the Fragrance of Eternity · 117 |
Trees in front of the Buddha hall · 118 |
Nonduality based on utmost reverence · 119 |
Surrender with reverence · 121 |
King Ashoka · 124 |
Venerable Shariputra · 126 |
Snow and star · 127 |
Visiting the Master at daybreak · 129 |
When you give the Diamond Sutra · 135 |
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Seven May We All Serve Buddha Well, Parwon! · 137 |
May we all serve Buddha well, parwon! · 138 |
Buddha work is based on won · 140 |
Every moment we fulfill our wishes, |
yet every moment we complain · 141 |
The governor of Gyeongsang Province · 143 |
Sentient beings leave the world after fulfilling their wishes · 145 |
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Eight Absolute Freedom Is Loneliness · 147 |
Absolute freedom is loneliness · 148 |
When you are freed from loneliness · 150 |
Keep a distance the length of a bull’s rein |
when you get to know someone · 152 |
Warmth is within Buddha’s bosom · 154 |
An embroidered phoenix might be seen, |
but the needle tip cannot be seen · 156 |
The Zelkova tree · 157 |
The virtue of water · 159 |
My mind tree · 160 |
Kashyapa, what is the mind? · 161 |
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Nine Enlightened Masters · 167 |
Bodhidharma · 168 |
Two masters in Myohyang Mountain · 170 |
Master Hakuin · 174 |
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Ten The Path That We All Tread Together · 177 |
Three vehicles · 178 |
When one pursues the path, nine generations benefit · 180 |
About giving · 182 |
Giving without seeking reward · 186 |
Compassion · 189 |
Master Wonhyo and the raccoon cubs · 191 |
Memorial day · 193 |
The mistake of teaching others · 195 |
Saving beings is Buddha’s job, our job is serving Buddha · 197 |
The enlightened being walks one step ahead of the ordinary being · 199 |
The children who practice surrendering · 200 |
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Eleven Reading the Diamond Sutra, Surrendering the Mind · 203 |
The Diamond Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha’s spiritual housekeeping · 204 |
Why one reads the Diamond Sutra · 207 |
How to read the Diamond Sutra · 209 |
Ten years of practice and Namo Amitabha Buddha · 210 |
Tathagata Maitreya, where Shakyamuni Buddha’s mind is · 212 |
Why we recite Mireukjon Yeoraebul · 214 |
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Twelve Stories of Cause and Effect · 217 |
The master who was born as a water buffalo · 218 |
King Cheoljong and Pak Yeong-Ho · 221 |
When a wicked person is well off · 223 |
Karmic retribution for taking a life · 225 |
Killing should be avoided · 227 |
Why we cannot but surrender the mind · 229 |
About the repeated cycle of birth and death · 230 |
Life as a wayfarer · 234 |
The sound of laughter · 236 |
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Thirteen At the Monastery · 239 |
When the rays of spring come · 240 |
The mud house · 244 |
Young spiritual seeker and early spring · 247 |
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Fourteen Path of the Bodhisattva · 253 |
May you plant great merit in the New Year · 254 |
Kind intentions will return to you · 255 |
The root of suffering · 256 |
The Dharma lecture of the pointing finger · 257 |
My fault · 258 |
A boulder · 259 |
Practicing the bright mind · 260 |
Realization and practice · 261 |
After death that is not far away, what body will I receive? · 262 |
The weighing scale of our conscience · 263 |
Cleaning the monastery · 264 |
Modesty is the greatest virtue · 265 |
The practice of lowering oneself · 266 |
Ask the experts · 268 |
The fragrance of virtue · 269 |
Scholar Kim Jip · 270 |
A spiritual legacy for future generations · 273 |
Ego · 276 |
The mindset of practice · 278 |
People who truly love themselves · 280 |
Retributive karmic ties · 281 |
Towards the mind of Buddha · 283 |
Spotted sleeper fish · 285 |
Emptying is the practice · 286 |
The difference between a bodhisattva and a sentient being · 288 |
Housekeeping of the mind · 289 |
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Fifteen To practitioners · 291 |
Look back on yourself · 292 |
Do not become indebted · 293 |
The honesty of a practitioner · 294 |
The essence of spiritual practice · 296 |
Strengths and weaknesses · 298 |
Overcome the mind of dislike · 299 |
Sacrifice your life to cultivate the mind · 300 |
Your fellow practitioners are your teachers · 302 |
Three poisonous minds · 303 |
Change at once · 305 |
Keep Buddha in your mind 307 |
Sin-eon-seo-pan: body, words, writing and decision · 309 |
As if this day were your last · 310 |
Practitioner · 311 |
The method of practice · 313 |
When you do monastery work · 315 |
The path of the bodhisattva · 316 |
Preparing the monasteries · 318 |
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Sixteen Practice in Daily Life · 325 |
Teaching within everyday life · 326 |
I should do my own chores · 328 |
Putting others first · 330 |
Putting the monastery first · 332 |
Why we must be frugal · 333 |
Your everyday life must change · 337 |
What are your thoughts · 339 |
Meticulous care · 341 |
Safety comes first · 343 |
The sanctity of life · 345 |
Like the bamboo trees standing tall to the sky · 350 |
Practice that flows like water · 352 |
Learning from nature · 353 |
Master’s worries · 354 |
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Glossary · 359 |