“Zen is boring.” Those are the words of Korean Zen master Seung Sahn. The quote appears in the book The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey by James Ishmael Ford.
Seung Sahn meant that the practice of Zen meditation could get monotonous. Ford picks up on this to make a larger point about how boredom and the fullness that goes with it can lead us down a path that results in spiritual insight and creative inspiration.
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