Before Words is Dohasa's journal of reflections on practice. The name Before Words was inspired by the Korean term hwadu (화두, 話頭) - “head of speech” or “source of spoken words.” It refers to the moment before a single word arises, before the mind divides the world into subject and object, self and other, this and that. It points to the source from which all thought and language flow, the awareness prior to discrimination. In short, it points to our own inherent buddha natu
