'NOTHING EVER HAPPENED'

'NOTHING EVER HAPPENED'

Q: Where does life come from, and where does it go?

Ven. Song-chol: Universal law is that there is no producing and no extinguishing. So by transcending time and space, there is nothing to appear and disappear, including life.

In the Avatamsaka Sutra we find, "The One Law is nonproducing,
the One Law is non-extinguishing"; and from the Lotus Sutra we have,

“All Dharma is that of non-change. “

We call this non-producing, non-extinguishing by various names— the ultimate, the absolute, the Dharma realm, causality, the eternally abiding, Dharmadhatu, Dharma nature.

There are a thousand different names, but the meanings are all the same. They all are the basis of the universe and the basis of the Supreme Enlightenment by the Buddha saw that all was non-producing, non-extinguishing.

This Truth is so profound, so deep, so difficult to comprehend that it can be seen only by the ‘WisdomEye’ of the Buddha; …

Ven.Tong Songchol (1912~1993), one of the great Zen masters in the last century was also called the Living Buddha of Korea.