Master Herbalist and Healer Hyunoong Sunim
Determining the underlying source of illness requires a health practitioner with great skill, deep intuitive understanding of how the body functions, and many years of experience. Master Hyunoong Sunim, Zen Buddhist monk and Chinese herbalist has developed this Healing the Source system over the past 30 years. Combining his years of intensive meditation practices with studies of Chinese herbology, Five Elements, I Ching, the Korean system of Body Character Medicine ("Sahsang") and his own chi gong internal cultivation practices has created a healer with tremendous skills and abilities.
Determining the underlying source of illness requires a health practitioner with great skill, deep intuitive understanding of how the body functions, and many years of experience. Master Hyunoong Sunim, Zen Buddhist monk and Chinese herbalist has developed this Healing the Source system over the past 30 years. Combining his years of intensive meditation practices with studies of Chinese herbology, Five Elements, I Ching, the Korean system of Body Character Medicine ("Sahsang") and his own chi gong internal cultivation practices has created a healer with tremendous skills and abilities.
Master Sunim was born in South Korea and entered Songkwang-sa Buddhist Monastery at age of twenty, where he became a disciple of Zen Master Ku San Sunim. After ten years of training in Zen meditation halls, he spent six more years in rigorous practice alone in hermitage in remote mountain areas.
One early spring day while sitting in the zen hall, suddenly all his doubts were resolved and he wrote the following song of enlightenment:
"Even existing Dharmas must be discarded,
So how can we cling to Dharmas which don't exist!
Ah-ha! Futility the Ancients busily pursued enlightenment, then departed.
This countenance, existing of its own accord
I wonder who named it Buddha or sentient being?
Even on true Dharma cannot survive.
Outside the window, the cherry tree is singing this news."
While Master Sunim's primary teaching focus is Zen Buddhism, he also stresses the importance of protecting and balancing one's physical health and energy through Taoist practices, in order to enter a correct spiritual path. During his years in the hermitage, he met and trained for ten years under Taoist Master Chong San. In 1982 he was given sanction as a Taoist Master. He later taught in Switzerland, has been teaching through North America since 1985 and is now the Abbott of a monastery in Korea, Seoul.