Hyunoong

Hyunoong Sunim is a Korean Zen master as well as a Taoist Master born in South Korea. He is a Dharma heir of Ku San Sunim and entered Songgwangsa Buddhist Monastery when he was 20 years old. After ten years of training in Zen Meditation halls, he spent some years training under Taoist Master Chung San and in 1982 was sanctioned as a Taoist Master. Master Sunim spent six years in rigorous practice alone in hermitages in remote mountain areas. There he followed a raw food diet, eating what the mountains made available. One early spring day, while sitting in the Zen hall, suddenly all his doubts were resolved and he wrote the following song of enlightenment: He is currently head abbot of temples on two continents, the Sixth Patriarch Zen...