Sermon of One Hundred Days - Part One - Venerable Seongcheol

Sermon of One Hundred Days - Part One - Venerable Seongcheol

Early Buddhist Thought

Sermon of One Hundred Days - Part One - Venerable Seongcheol

Venerable Seongcheol [+-]
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Seongcheol (April 6, 1912 – November 4, 1993) is the dharma name of a Korean Seon (Zen) Master.[1] He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being responsible for significant changes to it from the 1950s to 1990s.-- from Wikipedia entry

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The Buddhist middle path already in its first formulation consisted of non-attachment to either of two contrasting extremes, such as existence and non-existence or arising and ceasing. The concept can be traced back to the first sermon of the Buddha after his awakening, known as the Discourse Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law (Dharma-cakra-pravartana Sμutra). There are many essential teachings in this discourse and the theory of the middle path is one of them. The teaching here is simple and concise. It applies in a practical way to one who has gone forth from home to homelessness. It is important to bear the origins of this theory in mind.

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Seongcheol, Venerable. Early Buddhist Thought. Sermon of One Hundred Days - Part One. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 39 - 77 May 2010. ISBN 9781845536312. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=19247. Date accessed: 09 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.19247. May 2010

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