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Zen Talking

Zen is a tradition from India that passed into China. Zen culture is based on the Five Lay Precepts, teachings compatible with the Four Statements of Zen, and Zen"s only practice: Public Interview. The Zen reddit forum has a huge diversity of discussion about Zen ranging from scholarship and unique translation work to doctrinal discussions based on Zen"s history: Why is Zen not compatible with Buddhism? Why are meditation religions not the Zen they claim to be? What are koans about?

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37:23

6-25 Boy who tends the lamp

Zen Talking ·

2023/08/10

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13tph3w/baiyun_duan_81_the_boy_who_attends_to_the_lamps/ Post Summary: Master Baoen Xuanze asked Qingfeng, “What is this student’s self?” Qingfeng said, “The boy who attends to the lamps has come seeking fire,” after which Baoen announced he had seen the Dharma. Zen Teaching:https://terebess.hu/zen/baiyun.html I think. Post Cast Overview: Who is the boy? Seeking fire

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38:44

8-10 If it was a snake...

Zen Talking ·

2023/08/10

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15cvsvu/tossing_a_snake_into_the_fire/ Post Summary: In the process of burning a clearing in the mountains, Master Dasui saw a snake; tossing it into the fire with his staff, he clucked his tongue and said, "You still won't give up this physical body on your own; for you to die here will be like finding a lamp in the dark." Zen Teaching: Dahui’s Shobogenzo, published under the title

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38:17

6-14 Self and Things

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/149gpdt/self_and_things/ Post Summary: Time and again I see longtime Zen students who have been freezing their spirits and letting their perception settle out and clarify for a long time. Though they have entered the Way, they immediately accepted a single device or a single state, and now they rigidly hold to it and won’t allow it to be stripped away. This is truly a serious

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38:33

6-13 What if I’m not Good Enough?

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/147yhqd/what_if_im_not_good_enough/ Post Summary: Foyan: There is another type of Zen teacher who tells people not to make logical assessments, that they lose contact the minute they speak, and should recognize the primordial. This kind of “teacher” has no explanation at all. This is like sitting on a balloon— where is there any comfort in it? It is also like the croaking of a

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37:04

6-6 No Nest!

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13rnwho/observing_without_making_a_nest Post Summary: Just being the way you naturally are – whether you’re talking or keeping quiet, moving around or sitting still – and not ornamenting it with lots of branches and leaves: this is the great gate to freedom. But to ford that river your idealist philosophies must be dead, your familiarities forgotten, your dispositions vanished, your

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35:57

6-5 Zhaozhou’s Intellectual

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/07

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13wpglm/joshu_and_intellect/ Post Summary: A monk asked, “Usually when there are questions and answers, the intellect is involved. Without being involved with intellect, how will you respond?” The master said, “Ask a question. ”The monk said, “Please say something. ”The master said, “Don’t bring good and bad here.” Zen Teaching: Green trans. Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu

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39:27

5-29 Dharma testing… one… two...

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/07

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13th9am/zens_dharma_interviews_a_test_we_can_all_agree_on/ Post Summary: Accordingly, the Master said, "I don't inquire about the realm of the Buddha or the realm of the Path; rather, what kind of person is he who talks thus about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" When, after a long time, Ch'u had not responded, the Master said, "Why don't you answer more

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38:54

5-29 Don’t lose your head

Zen Talking ·

2023/07/07

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13u4qg3/dont_lose_your_head_34/ Post Summary: Nanquan has never been translated before! Now on Reddit! 汝心若是。If your Mind is,佛亦何用。what use is Buddha, also?非他有無形相。It is not that [one or] the other 'has' or 'doesn’t have' form.以何是道。With which is the Way? Zen Teaching: Record of Nanquan Post Cast Overview: Yajñadatta lost his head. Crazy from the outside. History of glass. Nanquan vs

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39:30

5-23 Don’t be Reasonable

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/17

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/133u9q3/huangbo_the_self_and_perceptions/ Post Summary: Huangbo: It is that which you see before you—begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. Zen Teaching: Zen Teaching of Huang Po (Huangbo) Post Cast Overview: six senses, sunny days, perspective, moving in and out without losing, no mind outside

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38:23

4-30 Zhaozhou’s Old Lady

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/17

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/132fq1r/bos_case_10_the_women_of_taishan_wtf_old_lady/ Post Summary: Case: On the road to Taishan there lived a certain woman. (A rabbit on the road between the neighboring city and the farmhouses.) Wherever a monk asked her, "Which way does the road to Taishan go?"(Traveling for a whole lifetime, you don't even know where you're going.) the woman would say, "Right straight

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38:56

4-29 Head on Fire

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/17

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12vjwjw/a_man_whose_head_is_on_fire/ Post Summary: A monk asked, "Asking for help like a man whose head is on fire - what is that like?" Joshu said, "Be like him." The monk asked, "In what way?" Joshu said, "Do not put yourself in his place." Zen Teaching: Green’s translation of Zhaozhou, Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu Post Cast Overview: Effectiveness, Precepts. Alcohol

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16:15

4-20 I’m Originally a Buddha!

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/05

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12sfpyz/what_do_i_do_now_that_im_originally_a_buddha/ Post Summary: You people, each of you has an ancient mirror. All the myriad forms-long, short, square, round-each and every one appears in it. If you go to the longness or shortness to understand, in the end you'll never be able to find it. This is why Hsueh Tou said, "When the bright mirrors are on their stands, the range

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37:47

4-11 Thwarting the Grind

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/05

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12fpy5e/thwarting_the_grind/ Post Summary: I'm at an age where I'm certainly not old, but old enough that the reality of how limited our time on earth can be has really set in. Especially this year. This has led to stress when it comes to Zen study. I feel like if I'm not studying in some way 24/7 then I'm wasting time. It's actually gotten to the point where there can be a week at

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39:19

4-6 Yunju Says So

Zen Talking ·

2023/06/05

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12c0d8k/yunju_is_going_to_the_monks_hall/ Post Summary: Dongshan went up to the hall and said, "There is a person who, in the midst of a thousand or even ten thousand people, neither turns his back on nor faces a single person. Now you tell me, what face does this person have?" Yunju came forward and said, "I am going to the Monk's Hall." Zen Teaching: Post Cast Overview: What are

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38:28

4-20 What do I do now?

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/27

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12sfpyz/what_do_i_do_now_that_im_originally_a_buddha/ Post Summary: You people, each of you has an ancient mirror. All the myriad forms-long, short, square, round-each and every one appears in it. If you go to the longness or shortness to understand, in the end you'll never be able to find it. This is why Hsueh Tou said, "When the bright mirrors are on their stands, the range of

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37:53

4-19 Relationship with Buddha

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/27

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12pobhv/the_relationship_between_selfnature_and_the/ Post Summary: Therefore, if you students of the Way seek to progress through seeing, hearing, feeling and knowing, when you are deprived of your perceptions, your way to Mind will be cut off and you will find nowhere to enter. Only realize that, though real Mind is expressed in these perceptions, it neither forms part of them nor

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39:37

3-13 Mastery vs Enlightenment

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/27

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11p4a0q/is_there_a_difference_between_being_enlightened/ Post Summary: "It is very hard to find one good Ch'an (Zen) man among you". Zen Teaching: Foyan's text published under the title "Instant Zen" Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

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39:17

23-4-05 Buffalo Buddha Inherent

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12am04b/inherent_buddha_water_buffalo_and_seeking/ Post Summary: I’ve just watched over a water buffalo: if it went off the path into the weeds, then I pulled it out; if it invaded people’s plantings, then I disciplined it with a whip. Eventually it came to accept human speech nicely. Now it has turned into a white ox on open ground, always present, standing out all day long,

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39:32

4-1 Four Statements of Zen v/s Eightfold Path Buddhism

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/123b0g4/zen_rejects_buddhism_how_the_4sofz_are/ Post Summary: Four Statements of Zen The separate transmission outside the teachings, Not based on words, Points directly at the human mind— You see your nature and become a buddha

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39:41

3-31 No Zen in Zazen

Zen Talking ·

2023/05/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/126ai60/a_discussion_on_zazen/ Post Summary: People refuse to answer questions about Zazen, refuse to quote the text that invented Zazen, refuse to address Zazen sex scandals, and then refuse to quote Zen Masters. Basically it’s Zazen as usual. Zen Teaching: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/notmeditation, where Zen Masters’ rejections of meditation are cataloged. Or

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