Page 8 University Daily Kansan, June 21, 1982
Says aim is peace
Zen master visiting Lawrence
By KATHLEEN J. FEIST Staff Reporter
Zen Master Seung Sahn sat with his legs crossed on a flat pillow in the middle of the floor and began his lesson on the correct way to live.
one must learn the correct way to sit, and the correct way to breathe in order to have the correct mind," said Ibrahim as he read the manuscript as he took a long, deep breath.
Sahn, now visiting Lawrence, is celebrating his 60th year in the United States. His stay in Lawrence is being supported by the Lawrence Cheye Zion Group.
"Young people need meditation to find true human nature," Sahn said in his cliped, Korean accent, which at times he used from his traveling secretary, Mau Sang.
THE ZEN MASTER has been busy with retreats this weekend in Lawrence. Tonight he will give a speech at 7:30 in the Jawkay Room of the Kansas Union. He said he would answer any question on any subject.
Sahn said he was here to teach
searching souls the way to find one's true self through Zen.
"If you understand your true self, it's everything," he said.
The Oriental teachings achieve this understanding because they direct their work toward the person's inner beings, Sahn said. The Western teachings are directed more toward an outer being.
"The Bible says, 'I am the Way,
Truth, and Correct Life' Buddhism says if you obtain true self, you obtain the Way, Truth, and Correct Life."
SAIN COMPARED the two religions to a mountain with roads on the east and west sides of it but still ending at the same point.
"To depend or not depend on God doesn't matter," Sahn said. "They have the same point."
Christianity depends only on God.
Zen doesn't depend on God, or Buddha,
or anything. It's independent," Sahn
said, emphasizing the last word.
Sahn himself was brought up in a Christian home in Korea, according to "Dropping Ashes on the Budda," a book about Sahn's teachings.
In 1948 Sahn was ordained a Buddhist
A FIRE CAUSED $15,000 worth of damage to a trailer home in 89th E. 19th St. Saturday night (Ma). Bob Coleman is the fire Service Fire Department said yesterday.
The fire started at 11:34 p.m. when an extension cord that was plugged into two or three items short-curcured.
On the record
THIEVES STOLE miscellaneous items valued at $790 at about 3:30 Saturday afternoon from a house on the 1600 block of Harper, police said.
An air conditioner, swing set, tent, wedding dress and blender were taken from the premises, police said.
Nobody was injured in the fire, Coleman said.
Police say they have a suspect in the case, but no arrests have been made.
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN stole $480
worth of room furnished Saturday
from the Virginia Inn Hotel, 2907 W.
Sixth St., police said.
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The man rented a room and paid for it in advance, police said. He left with a电视 television, two table lamps, a bed, a rug, and several bowls, several lamps and a bathroom mat.
Police say they have no suspects in the case.
mok after learning the Buddhist philosophy that all things are transient and that by treating things as if they were, you find your true self, the book said.
THERE ARE NOW six Zen centers and five affiliate centers in the United States.
The 55-year-old monk came to the United States in 1972 and was the first Korean Zen master to teach in the West.
He recently visited West Berlin, he said, where he taught the Zen teachings to new and interested students.
One of the affiliate centers is in Lawrence.
Zen centers are also in other parts of the Western world, with the majority in Poland. he said.
Sahn works at the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, R.I.
By riding yourself of preconceived opinions and thinking bases on your self, he can find a solution exist in connection with everyone else. Sahn calls this a "dont know mind."
Sahn said he hoped to achieve universal peace and harmony by teaching the Zen philosophy to foreign groups.
"Such togetherness is possible," Sahn said.
"It is only when you keep a 'don't know mind' that at that time you and become one自己," Sahn said.
By dropping your opinions and keeping a clear mind, you become one with the universe and thus find your true self. he said.
"If everyone obtains their true self, then soon world peace is possible," Sahn said. "That's the Zen mind."
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Watson wins Open title
By United Press International
PEBLE BEACH, Calif. —Tom Watson, labeled a "choker" early in his career because he twice let the U.S. Open Championship title slip away, made a spectacular chip shot for a birdie on the 10th hole yesterday to win a stirring duel with Jack Nicklaus and capture for the first time the most prestigious championship in American golf.
Rolling in putts on the back nine that week made for the drama of the Open, including a 35-footer for a birdie from the fringe of the 14th green, Watson opened a two-shot lead over Nicklaus down the stretch.
But that lead melted away on the always treacherous closing holes of the Pebble Beach Golf Links when
Nicklaus birdied the 15th and Watson bogeyed the 16th.
Then, in championship style. Watson birdied the dangerous 81 with a 5-foot birdie put that gave him a final-day score of 70 and a 282 total
Using a pitching wedge, Watson popped the ball over the six feet of rough he had to carry to reach the ground. The ball ran straight for the flaistck.
Then, with Nicklaus already in the clubhouse after having holed a nervy three-footer at the home floor for a par and a round of 69 for a 72-hole total of 284. Watson hooked up to the righthand side 17th into the rough alongside the green rough that is a trademark of an Open course.
Kansas Repertory Theatre summer '82
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum/adapted by
Frank Gabrielson/with music and
lyrics of the screen version by
Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
July 8,17,23,25 8:00pm
July 11,18 2:30pm
8:00pm
Blithe Spirit
By Noel Coward
July 9,15,18,24
How The Other Half Loves
By Alan Ayckbower
July 10,16,22 8:00pm
July 25 2:30pm
All performances in the University Theatre-Murphy Hall/All seats are reserved/call (913) 864-3982/Tickets go on sale June 14 in the Murphy Hall Box Office
Presented by the University of Kansas Theatre
PIPINGS FROM THE PARK
I am, alas, one of those genetically deficient individuals who lack initiative. Indeed, my fear of honest endearment is so great that I often try to avoid even marginal contact with its results which leaves me unable to enjoy, for example, television, movies, cigarettes, sugar-laden soft drinks, video games, pornography, massage parlers and trastisy tabbies. Lately, however, those of us consigned to the park have gained some distinguished company.
Why it was just the other day that several Health and Human Services employees—probable victims of Secretary Richard Schweiker's inspired attempt to economize now under consideration—came wandering in. Granted, Texas Representative Jim Malton said that if Secretary Schweiker's proposal surveys he (Secretary Schweiker) 'probably has signed the death warrants of thunders and pernuls a nursing (home) patients,' but, well, you can't believe everything you read.
Not long ago some former bus drivers convened here and clearly demonstrated their relative inflexibility by admitting to an inability to see the benefits derived from teenagers owning cars. While admitted that this phenomenon created jobs in the auto industry, they kept talking about how it also resulted in more traffic, accidents, and air pollution, along with higher gasoline prices and increased fuel costs. They also pointed out that the number of thousands of young children, especially those living in what are called "urban load belts," in large cities
(suffer) from what worried physicians describe as a silent epidemic of lead poisoning. As a result they are grown up with impaired intelligence and health and are often unable to work.
The Reagan Administration, already committed to ignoring such information, has instead encouraged the Environmental Protection Agency to relax the regulations which limit lead in gasoline. This administration appears to be viewing, with no small amount of admiration, President Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who thought that "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country."
Then there were several persona non grata Taiwanese agents who produced newspaper clippings which described how the Reagan Administration "had begun talks with China on the possibility of an agreement on nuclear cooperation that would enable American companies to help develop China's nuclear power industry." According to Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Steessel, President Reagan "in a recent directive . . . reaffirmed a policy of 'sustential liberalization' in the export of technology to China." Yes, there do remain a few problems such as: China's retusa to sign the treaty between Taiwan and China; China's attempt to join the Interim Authority and abide by its safeguards." Here, perhaps, we could learn a lesson from the dynamic Nixon-Kissinger due who, in a magnificent display of willpower, overlooked the thousands of American deaths in Korea and Vietnam for which Communist China was responsible, and signed the Shanghai Communicate which incorrectly classified Taiwan as part of China.
A new less unpopularized trips to China like the one last taken by James L. Malone, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, could lead to some kind of agreement. Oh, it might be necessary to lork over, in addition to Taiwan, a small part of the Philippines; but please keep in mind both the nuclear power industry's need for stimulation, and the accolades Mr. Nixon still receives for betraying Taiwan.
In the past year we park people have been mixing with a growing segment of the citizenry. There's been a veritable invasion of nurses, social workers, school teachers, and farmers—all here, of course, because they lack initiative. A few years ago, one of our students was interviewed by Pendleton, chairman of the U. S. C. Civil Rights Commission, who after examining his commissional colleagues the 1980 riot in Miami, told the problems which underlay the prolonged violence—"high unemployment, an inadequate educational system, deflorating and limited affordable housing, crime, an insensitive criminal justice system, and blacks from the economic and social basis—extent in most American cities."
The aforementioned spoisports claim that these are national problems which are beyond the capacity of the private sector to solve. To them nothing is sacred! What will be their next target? The now highly regarded balm of Darwinism? Needless to say, we rabble ignore these blasphemeres and continue to patiently await Sprog Agnew's rumored copyright entitled "A Boor Wield. His Burdgeon in Feigned High Dugue" and subtitled "You Can Do It If You Lie." Mr. Agnew's effort will probably serve to reassure us that in these seemingly troubled times there still exists realm in which one has the will one can find a way.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr