Only Don't Know : Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn
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5 Star Rating  "The one to own"2007-03-28
- Reviewed By User: A1JXSCJT9S8VOO
This is an important book to own if you are curious about zen practice and teaching. I've bought and given away many copies of this wonderful book to people who've had questions about finding a source of peace and happiness in their lives. Zen Master Seung Sahn had a wonderful common-sense approach to practice and his students were so fortunate to have these letters from him. I have enjoyed this book for years and turn to it whenever I lose my way.
 
5 Star Rating  "Humorous, wonderful book"2004-09-20
- Reviewed By jd32210
Often humorous, wonderful book taken from Korean Zen Master Seung's talks, letters and interviews with students. This is a book you can pick up time and again. I first read it nearly 20 years ago and always enjoy opening it. Stephen Mitchell was an early (as Americans go) student of Seung Sahn's and has gone on to a career of writing and translating many spiritual books.
 
5 Star Rating  "Help All Beings"2003-03-09
- Reviewed By moonlullabybooks
What could be said about Zen Master Seung Sahn, how could we thank him for his wonderful teachings? I have practiced Kwan Um Zen for over 10 years now, read plenty of literature by many many good teachers, but I don't know. None seem to have the language that Seung Sahn has. I would not call it basic, because I know plenty of people who at times find his style downright "Buddhist blasphemy". This book is a collection of letters between students. Someone pointed out in another review that Zen Master Seung Sahn is not the first to publish letters- I don't see what that has to do with wisdom. I mean, Buddhist literature in general has been 'done before", this does not detract from the teachings. It enriches them.

Yes, you will find some repetition in this book- it builds it's way with more and more insight with each letter. The reason WHY Seung Sahn tends to repeat some of the same teachings over and over is because they are the most crucial in understanding your true self. And if people who have heard it before are still at your feet, it's not your fault for telling them "I already told you this." Broken records are good, that way it not only "sinks it's way in', but it has a way of beginning to cut through your "normal" processes of thinking. Then you can say "Aha!" But not to worry, the repetition is not severe. Where he does repeat himself, he almost always adds some new "twist", a tiny bit more insight, a little glimpse-into the truth to which it points.

He speaks often of "before thinking mind", "only like this", "same or different", "only don't know"-read this book and you will feel a few steps closer to seeing everything "just like this". Then, no more opposites, outside becomes inside and BOOM!-clear like space. But all of this said, this book will not do much for you if you are not practicing, other than formulate more ideas in your "on top of your neck" mind, and not the mind which should be stored in your tantien-through practice. So Zen Master Seung Sahn is a prolific teacher of the Dharma, the 78th Zen Patriarch in lineage to Bodhidharma himself, and a Zen master who needs no credentials once you hear him teach! So enjoy this book, you deserve to find out...

 
4 Star Rating  "Straight-talking Zen for America"2001-06-23
- Reviewed By mumun
He isn't the first Zen teacher to offer his teaching via letters. (The teaching letters of Ta-Hui come to mind...) But has there ever been a more prolific correspondent? Until recent years, Zen Master Seung Sahn would answer every letter students or perfect strangers sent him, and bundles of letters would chase him from city to city as he flew around America in the seventies and eighties, teaching wherever the airlines would take him.

As far as Zen books go, it's good teaching with very little obscure dharma language. His talent was talking about Zen in a way non-scholarly Americans could understand and apply to their own lives. It's a lively collection of letters from a wide spectrum of students: from the sincere to the smart-aleck to the earnest and to the clueless. The teacher meets them all on their level, sometimes with very long letters including stories and koans.

Due to his concentrated, concise teaching style, the reader may find the letters repetitive. (When asked why he says the same thing over and over again, he has replied, "Did you hear it?") Some of the student letters may wear out their welcome, but they belong with the responses. Bear with it: there is good teaching throughout.

 
5 Star Rating  "you might taste why gong-an's are necessary in Zen buddhism?"2000-03-02
- Reviewed By 6464@prodigy.net
I read this book right after 'The Compass of Zen', which are written by the same author, Korean Zen Master, Seung Sahn Sunim and the same editor, Hyon Gak Sunim, who is one of his American students. Another book, 'Dropping Ashes on the Buddha' and this 'Only Don't Know' used the same style of many corespondences between the master and his students. You might taste how other people had faced with the confusion and the attraction in the paradoxical 'gong-ans'questions in Zen Buddhism. I was also very confused about the paradoxical gong-an questions and the unclear answers at 'The Compass of Zen' like other people who wrote many letters in the book. I often felt the pradoxical questions sounded funny, but something like words play. However, when I finished reading this book, I could slightly understand why the pradoxical questions are necessary and what the main purposes are? Zen practice seems to be one of the tools to "wake up" from the ignorance of self, and then to see the self as an universal existence. To reach the point,the beginners seem to train their minds detaching from the "forms and names" that they have learned, but attaining the clear minds, "like mirrors", to be able to see the unverse as it is."form is form, emptiness is emptiness". It is still paradoxical, but it is still attract. I you are interested in Zen Buddhism, you must read it.
 
5 Star Rating  "Zen in your face"
- Reviewed By Anonymous
These teaching letters are amazing. Seung Sahn addresses his student's concerns in language that anyone can understand, even when he's doing koan practice. His Zen isn't some airy abstract ideal; it's dealing with actual people, aspirations, and relationships. He hits the nail on the head every time.
 
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