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Practicing Everyday Kwan Ceaselessly throughout the 24 Hours of the Day


Pray with Your Actions by Doing Kwan Ceaselessly.


As times and cultures have changed, ways of life have also changed. Transportation and communication are just two examples among many, and other ways of living have been transformed tremendously. People have always sought efficiency and convenience along with beauty. In the contemporary world, when one has an urgent matter to communicate, one uses the telephone, facsimile, or e-mail. One doesn't travel to another country on horseback or go abroad on a sailboat, but on a plane.

Likewise, it is not sensible to insist on traditional ways of practice. In the past, one practiced meditation or prayed during a set time in a specific place. However, insisting that this traditional method of practice must be maintained is the equivalent of insisting on using a raft to forda river instead of using a bridge to cross over it.
 

In modern days, since everything functions at such a tremendous speed, one has to think while running. One faces many matters that require immediate decisions. In the turmoil of hectic contemporary life, one cannot easily find a separate place to meditate or find time to pray sitting comfortably with the hands folded If you think you must meditate with your eyes closed, then you are limiting meditation to only that time.

Practicing meditation or praying is not something that you do only at a certain time. Each and every moment of your life must be a prayer, andyour life itself must be a meditation. One whose life is both meditation and practice is a truly religious person and a true practitioner. Individuals whose words and actions don't match, or whose prayers and lives also don't match, are not practitioners.

If the mind that you have in prayer and the mind that you have in living are different from each other, then your prayer is merely an appearance. When you live every moment of your life with a prayerful mind, your life becomes a prayer. Let all your activities, including eating, talking, working, sleeping, and even breathing, become your prayers.

If you prepare a meal with the thought of wishing that the food might benefit all of your family members'health, the entire process of preparation is a prayer. When you eat, you should thank everyone that put effort into the process from the beginning until when the food reaches your mouth. You should thank the land, water, wind, and the sun, which grew the grains. In addition to that, you should eat with the thought that you are eating with all the lives inside and outsideof your body. Also, you should consider that you are eating with all the spirits that surround you. Then, even the simple action of eating a piece of bread can be meditation.

At work, if you work hard with the thought of wishing your company well, working is a prayer. If you take care of others' children as though they were your own, that act is also a prayer. If you don't consider an obnoxious person to be separate from yourself and you release your anger to the place of Juingong, that act becomes a better prayer than any prayer that you do sitting alone quietly. Every moment of living is prayer time, and whether it is in the car or in the kitchen while preparing a meal, wherever you are is a place for prayer.


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