¡á WOOKOK ZEN


WOOKOK Zen is based on the orthodox doctrine and practices of Zen. The teachings of Wookok Zen are inherited from the great Shakyamuni Buddha and the past Buddhist masters. This program is designed to assist students to attain an insight into reality and to help them realize life's ultimate wisdom by living with an unattached mind based on the teachings of Buddha's dharma.

   

The Wookok Zen Center aims to enlighten people, so they can live a Zen-oriented life.

   

Since 2001, the Wookok Zen Center has played a leading role by providing a systematic program for Zen education to foreigners. This program provides a wonderful opportunity for foreigners to lead themselves to a Zen-oriented life.

   

The Wookok Zen Center was founded by Zen Master Wookok in 1998 in Seoul, and it opened a web site (www.zenkorea.org) in 1999 to inform the general public about the theory and practices of Wookok Zen.

    

¡í ZEN Practice: The Supreme Way of Life

The Wookok Zen Center provides teachings that lead people to attain life's ultimate wisdom and to live an unattached free life with benevolence for eternal happiness.

 

The Wookok Zen Center educates people to put Zen theory into practice, so that they may enlighten their bodies and souls and live in harmony with others.

 

¡í ZEN in daily life; ZEN of the ordinary person; ZEN for the world peace

The Wookok Zen Center seeks to contribute to the well-being and peacefulness of all people regardless of their race, religion or ideology. Through the acts of searching, personal development and knowledge of Zen, any person can find inner peace and eliminate mundane thoughts, which interfere the discovery of one's manifest and true nature.

 

¡í WOOKOK ZEN Physical Exercises

Wookok Zen Physical Exercises make our bodies flexible, resilient and healthy to keep our minds calm. As a sound mind can provide the motivation for a healthy body, so too, can a sound body pave the way to a sound mind.

 

¡í How does ZEN change people?

Zen purifies the karma from your past lives and enlightens your present and future lives.

Zen ensures that we will live with ultimate wisdom and have compassion for all people.

Zen helps us overcome the agonies of being human and enables us to lead harmonious lives with others.

Zen transforms dreams into reality.

  

¡í Overcoming the Four Innate Agonies (Birth, Aging, Suffering and Death)

The Wookok Zen Center is planning to establish a Zen Complex to assist people in resolving the innate agonies of birth, aging, suffering and death. Without these agonies a land of supreme bliss can exist based on Zen practices.