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108 Yeomju (Prayer Beads) Making |
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Participants will lay down all their agonies by experiencing a precious opportunity to make a rosary, during which they will thread 108 beads one by one followed by one prostration for each threading. All the participants, once understanding the daily 108 agonies and delusions, eventually reach the complete answer to the question, "Why do we prostrate?" and then experience the meeting with their true self through the time "to pour out their greed, anger and delusion." |
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Experience of Bell-striking |
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In the quiet and still hours of dawn and evening - participants join the temple bell striking ceremony. They may feel refreshed merely by thinking of it. |
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Gongyang (Temple¨s Mealing) |
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When we unfold empty bowls, we are reminded of our first birth with empty hands; when we fill the bowls with food keeping gratitude and no greed in mind, we think living of our life. |
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Meditation |
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"Observing my mind correctly" is often the most impressive moment for participants to meet with Buddhism. It is a time for them to practice how to draw attention to their inside but not their outside. |
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Predawn Buddhist Service |
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＾Participants can recognize the reason why the temple begins practicing at the early hour of 3:30am. Also they will realize that the practitioners, waking up at the sound of the moktak (a wooden clapper), hold a sublime Buddhist service dedicated not to an outer object of worship but to the prayer himself aspiring to lay down his vainglorious mind. |
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Dawn Trekking |
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This is a healthy and invigorating program of Myogaksa. Climbing up behind the Mountain Spirit Shrine, on which Myogaksa is rooted, participants can find a passage leading to Naksan Park. |
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Dado (Tea Ceremony) & Conversation with Sunim |
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It is a time for participants to be able to feel the gratitude and preciousness of having tea and a little fruit after finishing the group work and breakfast. Contrary to the popular thought that the tea ceremony has difficult and complex decorum, it helps to enable participants to experience the non-duality of tea and Seon (Zen), namely one of the supreme stages of Buddhist practice. |
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Lotus Lantern Making |
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Sharing an anecdote about the lotus lantern and learning of its symbolism, participants join the lotus lantern making for some time while bringing their mind into bloom. |
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Sutra Copying |
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For participants who can afford not a little time. During the session participants can comprehend why they copy Lord Buddha's words one by one and learn briefly that all the 84-thousand scriptures of the Buddha were preached according to sentient beings' level of spiritual capacity. |
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Palsangdo (Eight Scenes of Buddha's Life Painting) |
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Participants can learn about the temple's wall paintings through intriguing stories related to them. This program will help to reveal the uniqueness of these eight pictures. |
