{"id":12860,"date":"2023-07-28T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musangsa.org\/international\/?p=11465"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:35:30","slug":"why-do-you-live-in-this-world-by-zen-master-seung-sahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musangsa.org\/en\/why-do-you-live-in-this-world-by-zen-master-seung-sahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Live In This World? by Zen Master Seung Sahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11466 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/musangsa.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/07\/international-the-world-of-this-moment-by-zen-master-seung-sahn-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Why Do You Live In This World?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">By Zen Master Seung Sahn<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">We understand many things about this world, but we don\u2019t understand ourselves. So why do human beings come into this world? Why do we live in this world? For love? For money? For respect or fame? Do you live for your wife, husband, or children? Why do you live in this world? If someone asked you these questions, you might very well answer, \u201cI live for my children. I live to earn enough money for them, or maybe just to have a good life.\u201d Most people think like this. They live only for their family, for some fleeting social respectability, perhaps to enjoy art or to get some powerful position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 12pt;\">Everyone wants to have a good situation for themselves. If you look at this world very closely, it is easy to see that most people eat and sleep and live merely for their own personal happiness. Yet these things are not the real purpose of human beings\u2019 life. They are just temporary means for living in the world. 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