Meet a Sangha Friend Name: Melissa LiquetPractice Background: I think that our spiritual journey begins at birth but my love of Buddhism began over 25 years ago originally in the Tibetan tradition.Won Buddhism Background: I discovered Won Buddhism with a friend probably over a decade ago but returned about a year and a half ago.Continue reading “Melissa Liquet”
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The Projection of Karma
By Andrew Goodman (Won Bup Woo), June/14/2020 Karma is one of the central concepts of Buddhism. It is the focus of four of the practices of the Eight Fold path: right intention, right speech, right action, and right livelihood. Essentially, karma is the law of cause and effect which means that our actions have consequencesContinue reading “The Projection of Karma”
Working with Our Fears
By Andrew Goodman (Won Bup Woo) One of my favorite lines in the Heart Sutra is in the fifth verse which says, “the mind is no hindrance, without any hindrance no fears exist, free from delusion, one dwells in nirvana”. This is such a clear, concise guide of the path to awakening. The form ofContinue reading “Working with Our Fears”
The Challenge of Simplicity
By Kimball Jones (Won Joong Shim) – March 8, 2020. We tend to equate simplicity with “easy” and complexity with “difficult,” And in some ways that is true. It’s easier to play a simple game of checkers than a more complex game of chess, right? More complex tasks tend to be more difficult to achieve. But IContinue reading “The Challenge of Simplicity”
The Fourfold Grace of Won Buddhism
By Rev. Doyeon Park – This article was originally appeared on Lion’s Roar in 2019. “Let us turn a life of resentment into a life of gratitude.” This is the main teaching I remember from Won Buddhist youth services in Korea. When I first learned this teaching as a teenager, I was told to findContinue reading “The Fourfold Grace of Won Buddhism”