Wongong So
In Nature, Our True Nature
May 11-13
2 Nights $120($60 deposit) Dana
Meditation helps us to be healthy, harmonizing and balancing the energy in our body and mind, cultivating calm awareness, and letting the light of our true nature shine.
Won-Buddhism is a religious movement founded in South Korea in 1916. The founder, Sotaesan, realized that while material progress has become increasingly present in today’s world, the minds and spirits of human beings have become weak. As contemporary society becomes increasingly materialistic, technologically advanced, and globally integrated, it is critical to develop our spirituality in equal measure. This realization is the founding principle of Won-Buddhism.
This retreat will include periods of meditation, “dharma speaking” (speaking from the heart and one’s true nature), chanting and prayer song, dharma talks, journal writing, working meditation, and green tea meditation – all within the context of finding our oneness with nature.
“Being changes into non-being and non-being into being, turning and turning again. But in the Ultimate Reality, being and non-being are both void. And the void contains everything and is perfect.”
WonGong So (Won: circle; Gong: true void) was ordained in 1994 as a Won-Buddhist Priest. She served in the Gang-Nam Temple in Seoul for three years before moving to the US in 1997 where she was assigned to the Rockville Temple in Maryland. Currently WonGong is a Priest at the Won-Buddhism Temple in Chapel Hill. She has an MSW degree and, as a professional social worker, works with children and young adults.