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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode, Haemin Sunim shares his wisdom on Zen Buddhism and how we can apply its teachings to our everyday lives. Haemin is a Zen Buddhist teacher, writer, and founder of the School of Broken Hearts in Seoul. Educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training in South Korea and has taught Asian religions in Massachusetts. Haemin is one of the most influential Zen monks globally, with over a million followers on social media.
During our conversation, Haemin offers profound insights into the nature of thoughts, emotions, and the self, drawing from his extensive knowledge and experiences as a Zen monk. He emphasizes the liberating potential of realizing we are not our thoughts or emotions and the power of practicing mindfulness in the present moment.
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0:00.0 | You can learn deeper truth about yourself right behind your fear, right behind whatever that you're avoiding right now. |
0:10.9 | If you actually get to do and go through that which you are afraid of, then right after you'll come to have deeper understanding of who you are. |
0:25.5 | And also, you might tap into a great source of, you know, courage and understanding and |
0:34.1 | compassion. So, um, so whenever you are, you know, avoiding So whenever you are avoiding, |
0:40.3 | whenever you are feeling, oh, that's just too scary, |
0:44.8 | I don't want to do it, I don't want to face it. |
0:47.5 | Eventually, we know that we have to face it. |
0:51.6 | And when we do, you know, there is a great promise. It's not going to be that scary. |
0:58.2 | You know, it's not going to be that scary, okay? |
1:02.8 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the show. It's Chase Jarvis. You just heard that little excerpt from |
1:07.5 | Haman Sunim. He is a Zen Buddhist teacher, writer, and the founder of the School of Broken |
1:14.2 | Hearts in Seoul, Korea. Educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received a formal |
1:20.6 | training, a monastic training in South Korea, taught Asian religious studies at Hampshire College |
1:26.7 | in Massachusetts for years and |
1:28.2 | years and has become one of the most influential Zen monks in the world with millions of followers |
1:35.1 | and has sold millions of copies of his books. He's got a new book out, which is what we talk about |
1:42.4 | largely in today's show. |
1:45.4 | Brilliant work. |
1:54.0 | And you may or may not know this about me, but my wife, Kate, has been working in the Zen practice for a long time. |
2:07.4 | And it's become a really important part of my life, our life trying to understand a little bit more about this in today's episode, I get to ask one of the foremost Zen monks in the world some pretty difficult questions. |
2:14.9 | How do we both simultaneously, you know, allow what is happening to us and have preferences, for example? How can we want to make our lives better and be comfortable with where we are in the moment? |
2:21.1 | In addition to that question, we cover a lot of ground specifically on some of his earlier works. |
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