Golden Wind Zen Order

The Golden Wind Zen Order (GWZO) is an American Zen Buddhist Order with centers and groups, founded in 2004 by Ji_bong Zen Master Robert Moore. Chan Master Dahui Zonggao (1089 – 1163), who was the primary disciple of Chan Master Yuanwu Keqin, (the Author of the Pi-yenlu "Blue Cliff Record," noticed that his practitioners were beginning to attach to the words of his late Master with blind and superficial understand. Consequently, and without hesitation, he destroyed the “Blue Cliff Record” printing blocks, such that the book subsequently became out of print. It was certainly an unusual event for a disciple to do such a thing to his master. In the eyes of contemporary people what the disciple did was outrageous. At that time, Master Dahui Zonggao destroyed all the printing blocks, nevertheless, years later, later disciples cut new ones and the book came into circulation once again.

Master Dahui is known as the functional founder of our modern method of practice, mainly the hwadou and kongan method of insight and transcendence. Dahui attained enlightenment at an early age and was assigned as the principle teacher to the Lay Students who were practicing under the tutelage of Chan Master Yuanwu. Because of this, Dahui wrote many of his treatises with the Lay Student in mind. It is because this great teacher stepped out of the normal function of a monk and spent his time almost exclusively with Lay Students in his early years of practice, that we today have a methodology that can work within the life of a householder.

"To attain enlightenment, it is not necessary to abandon family life, quit your job, become a vegetarian, practice asceticism, flee to a quiet mountain top, or enter a ghost cave of dead Zen to entertain your subjective imaginings. If you have been practicing quiet meditation but your mind is still not calm and fee when in the midst of activity, this means your haven't been empowered by your quiet meditation. Furthermore, if you have been practicing quietude just to get rid of agitation, then when your are practicing quietude just to get rid of agitation, then when your are in the midst of agitation, the agitation will disturb your mind just as if you had never done any quiet meditation.

When you are studying Zen, as you meet with people and deal with situations, never allow bad thoughts to continue. If a bad thought arises, immediately focus your attention and root the thought out. If, however, you just follow the thought unhindered, this will not only make it impossible to have any insight into your own true nature it will also make you a fool.

Good and bad come from you own mind. But what do you call your own mind, apart from your actions and thoughts? Where does your mind come from? If you rally know where your own mind comes from, boundless obstacles caused by your own actions will be cleared all at once. After seeing that, all sorts of extraordinary possiblities will come to you without your seeking them."

Chan Master Dahui Zonggao

History

Zen Master Sŭngsan, Zen Master Robert Moore and Paul Lynch, JDPSN founded the Huntington Beach Zen Center on August 14th of 1993. The first Zen Center was a four bedroom house with the Dharma Room located in the back of the house as an added on room. In early 1994 the Zen Center accepted its first resident, Carlos Montana, who then became a hangja and lived as a novice monk full time at the Zen Center. A few residents moved in and out of the Huntington Beach Zen Center, including a Korean Monk from Ssangwon sa named Eungho sunim. In 1995 the Zen Center was moved to a larger six bedroom house in Stanton and at that time Zen Master Sŭngsan suggested to change the name of the center to Hae-an Sŏnwŏn or Ocean Eyes Zen Center.

Due to logistics and an impending donation in 1997 the Ocean Eyes Zen Center moved from Stanton to a residence on Lime Ave. in Long Beach where it was established again as a residential Zen Center with 5 to 6 full time resident zen students until December of 1999. The center was temporarily homeless, due to a few zoning issues but kept the practice running in Whittier and a new location in San Pedro until it finally reopened in Long Beach at our current address on September 17, 2000. In the Winter of 2004 Zen Master Robert Moore opted to change the name of the Center to Golden Wind Zen Center and to affiliate with a new independent organization called the Golden Wind Zen Order.

Hierarchy

Guiding Teacher
*Ji Bong Zen Master Robert Moore

Jido Popsa-nim's
*Dochong, JDPSN Paul Lynch, JDPSN
*Jeff Tipp, JDPSN Paul Lynch, JDPSN

ee also

*Buddhism in the United States
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Notes

References

*cite book| last =Prebish| first =Charles S.| authorlink =| coauthors =Baumann, Martin| title =Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia| publisher =University of California Press| date =2002| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48871649&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0520226259

External links

* [http://www.goldenwindzen.org Golden Wind Zen Center]
* [http://www.aikidoai.com/aikido_003.htm Aikido Ai Zen Center]
* [http://www.blueheronzen.org/ Blue Heron Zen Community]
* [http://www.zen.anitasocarinas.com/ Tiger Mountain Zen Center]