I did a zen!

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On last weekend, I went to Buddhism temple, Backyangsa in Jeonnam-do to do a zen with other zen learners. I set off my zen travel at my house in Dae-gu on 10:00 last Saturday morning. I drove my car for Backyangsa. I took about 3hours and 30minutes to arrive Backyangsa by inter highway between Dae-gu and Gwangju. we gathered altogether in the zen house in this temple for us on 15:00. all of this zen learning are nine members. we stayed one night and two days in this temple. In staying here, we did as the monk in this temple did. but most of all. we concentrated on a zen with our master monk(female monk). we did a zen 4 hours including done two hour zen with our master monk in last Saturday. we got up next early morning, exactly, dawn, 03:00 am. and we worshiped with monks in this temple before the image of Buddha and after this ceremony, we did a zen 2 hours from 04:00 to 06:00 Sunday morning. after this zen and a breakfast, we have a tea ceremony with our master monk. and we talked about " a Buddhism in our life". I asked my master monk like this. "we can't meet a Buddha in a real life. But about 3,000 years ago, the Indian people in that times could met the Buddha in their real life as a Tibetan can meet their spiritual leader, Dal lai Lama. Who is happier? We, now, without a Buddha or Them, past, with the Buddha?
my master monk said to me "Our Buddha is all around of us. sometimes be like wind, sometimes like rain, sometimes like tree leaves, sometimes like flowers and sometimes like good neighbor. only we can't make sense of these." although it was hard to accept this words perfectly in my mind. I could somewhat understood her words. we talked altogether about 1 hour.
after this conversation, I packed my luggage and said hello to my master monk and other zen learners. see you again next 4th Sat. next month, April. I refreshed my mind in this beautiful temple. I returned to my house in Dae-gu with safety. I felt some sleepy in my driving way to Dae-gu on highway.

P.S. Our master monk(Korean) went to abroad, America to study Biology in the early 80's.
she quitted her studying. she became monk. she was extraordinary case to be a monk in America.
I hope she will be our good master monk of this zen gathering in this temple. my buddhism name is 古佛. It means "an old Buddha". 6 years ago, this name was given for me by a prime master monk of this temple. I think the essence of Buddhism is "a reverence for life".
It is really spring. at this temple, I could smell of a japanese apricot tree's flowers anterior to cherry blossoms. I can catch a smell of this flowers one hundred meter away. It was so beautiful and very curious.

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Photos

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A japanese apricot flowers in day time.

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this tree is 350 years old over and is the national nature treasure #486 in South Korea. the hieght is 5.3M, stem around is 1.47M and tree around are 6.3M(from east to west) and 5.7M(from North to South).

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In day time.

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the Main building and Mountain Backam(means "white rock" in English).

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Mt. Backam.

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the zen house in this temple that we did a zen.

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the tree #1 in the early morning.

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the tree #2 in the early morning.

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I shot these flowers in the early morning by my digital camera.