"Zen Master Goes to Europe" Part 4(인용한 글)

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From: "Mu Sang Sunim" <musang@c...>
Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 2:42 pm
Subject: "Zen Master Goes to Europe" Part 4

From "Zen Master Goes to Europe" (unpublished)
by Zen Master Seung Sahn and Mu Sang Sunim
copyright 1990 David B. Gerber


APRIL 15, 1978: VENICE TO ZURICH

Bowing, 5:15. We then pack, at 6:00 leave by water taxi from our hotel
to the station. We have breakfast at the railroad station, our waiter
is very enthusiastic. We share our pastry with him. At 7:26 our first-
class train departs for Milan. Dae Soen Sa Nim reads David's and
Margaret's palms. He tells David that his palm shows he has monk karma
(Two years later, David becomes a monk. He's still a monk today.). We
change at Milan, with a half hour stop, to a different train for
Zurich. On the train we're accosted by a Gypsy woman with a baby and
some kids, who try to get into Dorothy's pocketbook while the mother
is looking wretched and asking for money "per le bambino." Our first
adventure. The rest of the ride is uneventful. We keep to ourselves,
pretty much, except for a few Italian children who are running all
over the train and who talk to Edward. We cross the border, not even
needing to show our passports. Then into the mountains.

We arrive in Zurich at 4 p.m. Walking out of the train station we run
into Jill whom we know from Boston. She bows to Dae Soen Sa Nim. Jill
is in Europe on business with her parents. We all go to the Hotel
Bristol very nearby, Dae Soen Sa Nim and Linda with Jill; Edward with
most of the baggage in a taxi; the rest of us walking. The hotel is
nice. No private bathrooms this time. David, Sandra and Margaret in
one room; Dorothy, Edward and Linda in another; Dae Soen Sa Nim in a
third.

At the hotel Linda meets an American who offers to help us with
Zurich. His name is Jean, he has written a biography of Herman Hesse.
We are to meet for dinner at 7. We assemble, things start to drag out
as we try to decide on a restaurant. Dae Soen Sa Nim says impatiently
to Linda, "You already understand diabetes people." So we quickly go
to a raclette stube nearby with Jean and his girlfriend. (Raclettte is
a dish with melted cheese over potato.) We sit at two tables, most of
us have fondue. Jean and Sandra talk a lot together, Dae Soen Sa Nim
and Margaret leave early, then David, Dorothy, Edward and Linda.
(Margaret has started taking care of Dae Soen Sa Nim, functioning as
his attendant. She began in Zurich when she noticed that he didn't
have any coins to operate the coin shower and went to help him. During
the course of the trip, some people become jealous.)

Later that evening Dae Soen Sa Nim says to Margaret and David (and
later to Linda), "This was not correct situation. This man is a guest,
but he only talked to Sandra. Only talked about his job. Very narrow.
Cannot talk about other things. I check his girlfriend's face, she was
very unhappy."


APRIL 16: ZURICH

Bowing, 6:00. Half hour sitting. Jill joins us for breakfast. We split
up after breakfast. Linda and Sandra and Jill go around town.
Margaret, Dorothy and Dae Soen Sa Nim, to Lucerne. David rests, sees a
little of a children's parade to say goodbye to winter. Edward also
sees the parade.

At 5 p.m. we are met by A.W., a student at the Jung Institute. He and
a group of friends have invited us for diner. We take a streetcar to
his apartment where we find many people in a receiving line to meet
us. E.P. and A.W. are both former students of Eido Roshi, for 5 years.
Others there are Jules, Alice, Mary, Hedda (Dr. Lee's sponsor, a very
lively middle-aged woman), and Victor, who speaks only German. We
leave our shoes in one room, our coats in another, and go into the
living room, which this evening is set up as a Japanese style zendo.
We talk for a while. Most are affiliated with the Jung Institute. Then
dinner: brown rice, lentils, beans, salad-a wonderful home-cooked
meal. We eat zendo style, with chugpi and plates. Then we take a break
to organize the evening. We decide to chant our style, and put as many
people as possible in the living room, a few in the hall. We're joined
by Jill, her father, and her brother Robert, who is a patient at the
Jung Clinic. Dae Soen Sa Nim goes right up to Robert who looks
somewhat out of it, shakes his hand, says heartily, "How are you? No
problem, yeah?" David is impressed. In all there are maybe 16 people.

At 7 p.m., chanting. We sit in rows, people along the wall facing in
on two mattresses. We don't have space to do full prostrations with
the first chant. Then Kwanseum Bosal chanting, ten minutes sitting, a
break, and a Dharma talk. Linda gives the talk, she talks about the
Zen circle and also about George's dream of going to the bus station
in Providence and asking for a ticket to Providence. George dreamed
that the ticket seller told him, "You're already in Providence."

"But you don't understand," said George, "I want to go to Providence."

"But you're already in Providence."

"No, no! I want to go to Providence."

"O.K.," said the ticket seller. "We can route you from Providence to
New York, then to Miami, then to Dallas, then to Los Angeles, then to
San Francisco, then to Minneapolis, then to Chicago, then to Boston,
then to Providence. Would you like that?"

"Wonderful," said George in his dream. And then added that Zen
practice is just like that-you are already there, but you don't know
it. Linda looks wonderful, very radiant.

Dae Soen Sa Nim asks for questions. Jules asks about don't know and
about why not to use our understanding. Dae Soen Sa Nim teaches basic
form, much emphasis on how intellectual understanding cannot help you.
Much laughter. The talk goes on until 9:30. We sit for five minutes,
then pack up and are driven home by Hedda and an English gentleman.
Hedda says, "Your talk was wonderful, but so difficult. For us
Europeans it is so difficult, emptiness." The whole evening feels very
strong.

David has a problem with one of his roommates and switches rooms with
Linda.

Dae Soen Sa Nim writes the following poem:


SWITZERLAND

Paradise--Switzerland
Head is white-capped,
Blue jacket, flowered skirt.
Summer, Spring, Winter together.
When do you finish drinking lakes' wine?
Wake up! Wake up!
Dog barking. Woof! Woof!