Zen Center Regensburg
Consultations on Practice, with Hyon Gak Sunim

Consultations on Practice, with Hyon Gak Sunim

A Consultation on Your Practice, with Hyon Gak Sunim

The purchase price is a DONATION to Zen Center Regensburg. It is for up to 1.5 hours of consultation.
After successful purchase please send us your preferred dates over our contact form.

Sunim donates all proceeds from these consultations, without deduction, to the Zen Center Regensburg e.V. general operating fund. He does not profit personally from this.

150,00 €

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Description

Meeting obstacles in your practice? Feeling challenged by lack of access to a senior Teacher? Wishing to “check in” with a living Zen master about issues that are arising in your Path to waking up?
Due to the convenience of social media, it is now possible to encounter the living wisdom of a Zen master right in your own home (or wherever you are). Step into the realm of a truly transformative Zoom call with this monk who has been training intensively for over 35 years. Immerse yourself in an experience that is both unique and deeply inspiring as he guides the complexities of questions about meditation practice and personal challenges. With understanding, boundless empathy, and a big big big touch of New Jersey humor (expect the occasional F-bomb, unless you choose the PG-13 version!), Hyon Gak Sunim brings profound insights that radiate warmth and love, and help you to maintain a clear direction in your practice.
Drawing from over three decades of dedicated meditation practice, many of them in the most esteemed Zen halls of South Korea and Japan, Sunim possesses an extraordinary ability to swiftly discern the heart of any issue. His guidance is not only perceptive but also solution-oriented, offering invaluable suggestions for navigating life’s myriad situations. Each interaction with him is a journey into enlightenment, and his wisdom has already sparked transformative change in countless lives.
In the comforting space of his presence, Hyon Gak Sunim effortlessly blends profound spiritual teachings with a genuine love for humanity.
Hyon Gak Sunim (addressed as “Sunim”) was born Paul J. Muenzen in 1964 to a family of devout Catholics in New Jersey, U.S.A. He was educated in literature, literary theory, and philosophy at Yale University (Class of 1987) and comparative religions at Harvard Divinity School, where he received the degree of Master of Theological Studies in 1992.
Hyon Gak Sunim became a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1989. He has been doing training in various remote mountain places in Asia, including 3 intensive 100-day solo meditation retreats and some forty or forty-five some-odd 3-month intensive meditation retreats in some of the most ancient Zen temples of Korea.
In August 2001, in a public ceremony at Hwa Gye Sah Temple, Sunim was publicly tested in “Dharma combat” before an assembly of monks and nuns who had just completed the Summer Kyol Che, and he received inka (formal approval of enlightenment, and certification of teaching authorization) from Zen Master Seung Sahn.

Sunim left Korea for the West in 2009/10, and settled in Germany, where he is based today.