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Andrzej Stec

Andrzej Stec

Andrzej Stec, JDPSN — Ji Do Poep Sa Nim (Zen Dharma teacher) in the Kwan Um School of Zen; guiding teacher of the Kwan Um Seoul Zen Group in South Korea.

Aug 18, 2026

5:11
So I was wondering if I could just invite you to talk briefly about what is what to practice? How do we practice it? And why do we practice it? And how the online Sangha can support this practice?
5:26
Well, you mentioned that actually Zen Master Sung San was not per se a Huadu promoter.
5:35
Huadu is in Chinese, it means the head of the work.
5:41
But originally in Zen there was no Huadu, there was no Kongan.
5:45
Many people also confuse Kongan with Huadu because both have question in it.
5:52
So you cannot have a kongan without question, but the kongan can become a huadu.
5:58
And that started during the Song Dynasty.

12 MINS LATER

18:23
I have one member who asked, Let's say, why don't we change the question or should we change the question or should we use one of those questions that we have been working with for extended piece of time for our homework? Why don't we use it as our wadu? And if we can change questions to refresh this sense of don't

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