{"id":12864,"date":"2023-09-17T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musangsa.org\/international\/?p=11500"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:35:08","slug":"true-dharma-is-no-dharma-by-zen-master-seung-sahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musangsa.org\/en\/true-dharma-is-no-dharma-by-zen-master-seung-sahn\/","title":{"rendered":"True Dharma Is No Dharma 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;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11504 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/musangsa.org\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/international-true-dharma-is-no-dharma-by-zen-master-seung-sahn-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>True Dharma Is No Dharma <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>by Zen Master Seung Sahn<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The student asked, \u201cWhat is dharma?\u201d<br \/>\nDae Soen Sa Nim said, \u201cWhen I\u2019m hungry I eat; when I\u2019m tired I sleep. Do you understand?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI think so, but I\u2019m not sure this is understanding.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThen ask me again,\u201d said Dae Soen Sa Nim.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is dharma?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cToday I left Krakow at 8:40 and arrived here after half an hour. Is that enough? Dharma is not dharma. The sun, the moon, the stars do not say, \u2018I am the sun, I am the moon, I am the stars.\u2019 Buddha did not say, \u2018I am Buddha.\u2019 God does not say, \u2018I am God.\u2019 The true God and the true Buddha have no name. Also the true sun, the true moon, the true stars have no name. All names are made by thinking. Dharma, karma, Buddha nature are also all names. So the only true dharma is no dharma. True truth is no truth. True karma is also no karma. If you make dharma, you have dharma. If you make karma, you have karma. If you cut off all thinking, everything and you become one. But if you have something, you only have something, you lose everything. If you throw away everything of your own, then you will get everything. This means, throw away dharma, Buddha, God, throw away your understanding. Then you will get true dharma, true Buddha, true nature, true substance\u2014you will get everything. Then everything you can see, you can hear, you can smell\u2014everything is dharma, everything is Buddha, everything is truth. If your mind is correct dharma, then everything is correct dharma. If your mind is truth, everything is truth. If your way is correct, then everything is the correct way. That is Buddha\u2019s teaching. Everything is made by thinking. So how, just now, moment to moment, do you keep your correct situation? That point. 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