During the long three months retreat, your direction and try mind are very important. If you have correct direction and non stop try mind , then anything can be accomplished.

- Venerable Chi Boon , Dharma talk during three month retreat.

在安居中,你的方向和尝试的心是很重要的. 如果你有正确的方向和不断尝试的心,无事不办.

- 继闻师父,安居开示

如果你时时提问,"是什么....是什么....是什么？", 那随时随处你都能得到快乐.

- 继闻法师

If you always keep the question, " What Is It ....What Is It....What Is It ? " , then anytime anywhere you will get happiness.

- Venerable Chi Boon

每个人都会死， 重要的是怎么活。

每天起来就问自己，我今天可以做什么对别人有意义的事， 我今天能够怎么带给別人快乐，那就是帮助别人。

还没帮助別人先帮助自己，先照顾自己，把自己的工作做好，每天醒来后照镜子时问自己今天的脸色好看吗？对自己笑笑，如果你的心情不好，脸臭臭，怎么去帮助別人。平时就要开朗，要快乐。

每天有这个念头，这一天的生命，怎么去过有意义的人生，帮助別人，能够知道怎么过有意义的人生就是快乐。

[继闻法师, 90日禅修2022年]

Everyone will inevitably die; what’s important is how to live.

Every day upon getting up ask yourself, what can I do today which will be meaningful to others, how can I bring happiness to others today, that is, to be of help to others.

Before you embark to help others, help yourself first, take care of yourself first, do your job well; Every day after waking up, when you look into the mirror, ask yourself if you look well today. Smile to yourself, if you are not in a good mood, the face is sulky, how to help others? At any time, we should already be cheerful, be happy.

Have this thought every day - today’s life, how to lead a meaningful human life that is of help to others. To know how to lead a meaningful human life that is happiness.

[Ven. Chi Boon (alias Gye Mun Sunim), 90-day Zen Retreat 2022]

如果你心中有佛法,你去有到任何地方都有光明.

- 继闻法师

If you have Dharma in your mind, then anywhere you go there is illumination.

-Ven. Chi Boon

今天，我们行海洋坐禅。坐禅是没有形象的，不是坐在禅堂才是坐禅。大自然给我们很好的教导，有如大海，无量的广阔，我们的真心也如是。可是人类执着一个我，把自己框起来，心里就变小了，认为自己是波浪，认为我的波浪比别人大，就制造对立，其实我们是大海的一部分。硬把自己孤立起来，心变小了，就生活在苦海里，我们的生命就像波浪，起起落落，不得自在。

[继闻法师 90日禅修2022年]

Today, we do ocean meditation. Sitting meditation is without forms, sitting in a Zen hall is not the only form of sitting meditation. Nature gives us great teachings, just as the ocean, infinitely vast and wide, our true mind is just like this too. But humans are attached to a self, they box themselves in, the mind within then becomes small, and regard myself as a wave, regard my wave as bigger than others, create opposition, actually we are a part of the ocean itself. Really isolating ourselves, such a mind becomes small, and live in the ocean of suffering, our lives are like waves, ups and downs, unable to be at ease.

[Ven. Chi Boon (alias Gye Mun Sunim) 90-day Zen Retreat 2022]

If you are a true practitioner ,there should be no carelessness in the mind that follows truth. You must not be lazy for even a single moment. You must entrust everything and watch.

-Zen Master Dae Haeng

如果你是一位真正的修行人, 你遵循真理的心中就应该不存有疏忽. 你一刻也不应偷懒. 你应该托付一切事物然后观照.

-大行禅师

Do you want to believe in empty space or names? Believe in your inherent nature , believe in your inner father, and believe in your inherent shape .No holy saint or teacher is better than the teacher inside of your mind.

-Zen Master Dae Haeng

你要相信虚空或者名相？ 相信你本有的本性, 相信你内在的父亲, 与相信你本有的形状. 没有任何圣人或者导师好于你内心的老师.

-大行禅师

Practicing the Way with a deluded mind merely adds to one's ignorance.

-Zen Master So Sahn

抱着一个妄想的心去修行道法,仅仅只能增加个人的愚痴.

-西山禅师

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it. So you should be grateful that you have a sign or warning signal to show you the weak point in your practice.

-Shunryu Suzuki

当你的修行有些贪图时，你便对它灰心。所以你应该感激你有个征兆或警告信号来显示你的修行哪里有弱点。

-鈴木俊隆

Using intellectual understanding to find your true nature is like expecting a hungry man to satisfy his gnawing hunger by a picture of banana. Zen teaching is not like this . Zen teaching says, "Open your mouth . Here's a banana. Now eat !"

-Zen Master Seung Sahn

使用智力上的理解去寻找你的自性就像期望一个饥饿的人,用一张香蕉的图片去满足他的万分饥饿. 禅宗的教导不是这样. 禅宗说,"张开嘴. 这是香蕉. 现在吃!"

-崇山禅师

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

-Shunryu Suzuki

如果你修的好，你可能会为此而变的自豪。你的确做的好，但它添加上了某东西。强烈的自尊心是额外的。正行就是除去多余的东西。

-鈴木俊隆

Nothing comes from outside your mind. Usually we think of our mind as receiving impressions and experiences from outside, but that is not a true understanding of our mind. These are only the waves of your mind.

The true understanding is that the mind includes everything. Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

- Shunryu Suzuki

没有事物来自你的心外。通常我们认为我们的心接收的印象和经验是从外而来，但这不是真正明白我们的心。这些只是心的波动。

真正的了解是一切在心内。没有任何在我们以外的事物能带来任何烦恼。你自己在你的心中掀起波浪。如果你让你的心保留它的本来如是，它就会变得平稳。此心称为大心。

-鈴木俊隆

There are two kinds of love. The first one is small love. This is desire love, opposite love, attachment love. The second is big love. This is absolute love. It is freedom. If you have desire for yourself, your love is not true love .

-Zen Master Seung Sahn

爱有两种. 第一个是小爱. 这是欲望的爱,相对的爱,执着的爱. 第二个是大爱. 这是绝对的爱. 它是自由. 如果你对自己有欲望,你的爱不是真正的爱.

- 崇山禅师

Those who would truly practice this Dharma must keep a not-moving mind, taking simplicity and truthfulness as their standard. Dressed in humble, even rough clothing and carrying a hollowed-out gourd for freely drinking in mountain streams, they will not be hindered wherever they go.

-Zen Master So Sahn

对于一个真正修行佛法的人,他们须保持不动摇的心,把简朴和真实性成为他们的规范. 穿着简朴, 甚至于粗糙的衣服和提着一个掏空的葫芦,自在的饮用山溪中的水, 无论去到何处他们都无有挂碍.

-西山禅师

If there is a prison that is worse than any other prison in the world, it is the prison of thought. If there is any wall in the world that is most difficult to overcome, it is the wall of fixed ideas.

-Zen Master Dae Haeng

如果有一个监狱是比世界上任何其他的监狱更差的,那就是思惟的监狱. 如果有一堵墙是世上最难克服的,那就是固定想法的墙.

- 大行禅师

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

When we lose our balance we die, but at the same time we also develop ourselves, we grow. Whatever we see is changing, losing its balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony.

This is how everything exists in the realm of Buddha nature, losing its balance against a background of perfect balance. So if you see things without realising the background of Buddha nature, everything appears to be in the form of suffering. But if you understand the background of existence, you realise that suffering itself is how we live, and how we extend our life.

- Shunryu Suzuki

活在佛性的境界里，意味着时时刻刻丧失小我。

当我们失去平衡时，我们会丧命，但同时我们也会培养自己，我们会成长。我们所看到的一切都在改变着，在失去平衡中，但它们的背景总是圆满和谐的。

这就是万物处于佛性境界里的方式，在圆满平衡的背景下丧失平衡。所以如果你看事物而不明白此佛性的背景，一切看起来都是痛苦的。但如果你明白此生存的背景，你就会明白，痛苦就是我们生活的方式，也是我们如何伸长生命的方式。

- 鈴木俊隆

Keep watching. Keep watching your own steps. Keep watching who is talking, who is listening, and who is seeing. If you are looking for truth outside of daily life, you will never find it.

-Zen Master Dae Haeng

继续观察. 继续观察自己的脚步. 继续观察是谁在说话, 谁在听和谁在看. 如果你想在日常生活之外寻找真理,你将永远都找不到.

-大行禅师

You know how to rest physically. You do not know how to rest mentally. Even though you lie in your bed your mind is still busy; even if you sleep your mind is busy dreaming. Your mind is always in intense activity. This is not so good. We should know how to give up our thinking mind, our busy mind.

-Shunryu Suzuki

你知道如何让身体休息。你不知道如何在精神上休息。即使你躺在床上，你的心依然忙碌；即使你睡着了，你的心也在忙着做梦。你的心总是在强烈的活动中。这不太好。我们应该知道如何放下思维的心，我们忙碌的心。

-鈴木俊隆

Zazen practice is the practice in which we resume our pure way of life, beyond any gaining idea, and beyond fame and profit.

By practice we just keep our original nature as it is. There is no need to intellectualise about what our pure original nature is, because it is beyond our intellectual understanding. And there is no need to appreciate it, because it is beyond our appreciation.

So just to sit, without any idea of gain, and with the purest intention, to remain as quiet as our original nature – this is our practice.

- Shunryu Suzuki

坐禅是我们回归纯然生活方式的修行，超越任何观念的造作，超越名利。

修行就是我们如是的保持原本的自性。没有必要理智化关于纯然的自性是什么，因为它超越我们理智的理解。也没有必要欣赏它，因为它是超越我们所能欣赏的。

因而只是坐着，没有任何利益的想法，带着最纯然的意图，保持与我们的自性一样安静，这就是我们的修行。

-鈴木俊隆

Though someone may injure you in some way, you must keep a settled, not-moving mind. Do not give in to anger or resentment . When even a single angry thought appears in your mind, countless obstacles are born.

-Zen Master So Sahn

虽然某些人可能会用某些形式伤害你,但你应保持安定,不动的心. 别屈服于愤怒或怨恨. 当一个生气的念头在你心中生起时, 无量的障碍将诞生.

-西山禅师