Mu-Ah, a member of PZS in NYC, asked, “Do not call THIS a dharma stick, nor call THIS a dharma stick. Then, what do you want to call it?”

Sunim replied, “A blind turtle met a piece of wood.”

At a evening Zen class in Baltimore Zen Center member Hyun-Von asked Sunim, “Do not call THAT a dharma stick, nor call THAT a dharma stick. Then, what do you want to call it?”

Sunim hit her with dharma stick.

A Mahayana Buddhist monk asked Sunim at a Buddhist event, “I have 18 monk disciples. How many disciples do you have?”
Sunim replied, “Four disciples are not dull.”
“Where are are they?”
“Eyes, nose, tongue and ears.”

Sunim asked a working Hindu monk, “Isn’t it so hard?”
The monk said, “It’s not, because I am not working at all but my God Vishnu works all day long for me.”
Sunim immediately pinched his arm and asked, “Are you hurting or is your God hurting?”
The monk thought for a while and said, “My God hurts.”
Sunim said, “Ask me.”
The monk pinched Sunim and asked same question.
Sunim replied loudly, “Ouch Ouch!.”

During a Zen session at Innerfaith Zen Community, NYC, Arvind asked Sunim, “What can you speak about love?”

Sunim: “Thou Saidst.”

At a Zen lecture given to the Asian community in Virginia, a gentleman asked Sunim, ” Why do you live?”

Sunim said, “From where did you see my living?”