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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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39:26

3-28 Dahui 512, Part 2: The dead horse has it coming

Zen Talking ·

2023/04/29

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/ Post Summary: One day the monk Nian asked Sheng "To call it a bamboo comb is to stir up feelings. To not call it a bamboo comb is to turn away. Combine the two and you will be finished." Zen Teaching: Dahui’s Shobogenzo Post Cast Overview: For philosophy buffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes Self versus comb, How do you know

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39:13

3-26 Zhaozhou… ON FIRE

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2023/04/29

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/122p9h1/what_does_this_point_towards/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 Post Summary: "Once the master was in charge of keeping the fires at the monastery. One day, while everyone was out tending the garden, the master went inside the monk's hall and shouted, "Help, fire! Help, fire!" Everyone rushed back to the monk's hall, but the master

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38:58

3.27.23 KoanComentator, ThatKir, and Histoic on Song...

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2023/04/29

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11ztod1/song_of_attesting_to_enlightenment_verse_2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Post Summary: When awakened to the Dharmakaya there is no thing; The source of intrinsic nature is the true Buddha. The five aggregates4 come and go like clouds in the sky, The three poisons appear and disappear like bubble Zen Teaching: Song on Attesting to Enlightenment… by somebody

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37:07

3-20 It isn’t going to get any better...

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2023/04/20

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11u9jkf/measuring_tap_49_part_1_it_isnt_going_to_get_any/ Post Summary: (49) Jingshan's dot Great Master Ma had Zhizang take a letter to Jingshan. (Yangshan: I don't know what news is in the letter.) Jingshan took the letter, opened it, and saw a circle. (Yangshan: What does it say?) He put a dot in the center. (Yangshan: He can't hold still.) When the National Teacher heard this

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25:21

3-23 Zazen Racist… is Zen?

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2023/04/20

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11wc3tk/zazen_dogenism_is_inherently_racist_is_zen/ Post Summary: Dogen and Bodhidharma have some parallels, despite Zazen Dogenism being entirely incompatible. Zen Teaching: Blue Cliff Record? Maybe? Gateless Checkpoint? Post Cast Overview: What is the history of these two characters? What does a foreigner look like? How does a Buddha look? Ambiguity. Foreigners. Zen Lineage:

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38:26

3-18 Dahui’s Shobogenzo: Materialism vs. Conception…...

Zen Talking ·

2023/04/20

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/ Post Summary: One day the monk Nian asked Sheng "To call it a bamboo comb is to stir up feelings. To not call it a bamboo comb is to turn away. Combine the two and you will be finished." Zen Teaching: Dahui’s Shobogenzo Post Cast Overview: Why throw a comb down the stairs? what is a comb? What’s combing? What’s Chinese? How to break a

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38:56

3-18 Everybody’s Enlightened… unless they are lying?

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2023/04/09

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11j3asa/everybodys_enlightened_how_come_nobodys_meditating/ Post Summary: r/Zen religious troll claims “Zen Masters want you not to reject anything”… quotes Zen Master rejecting something as proof: All the above have things they consider important where their infatuations lie. Lacking the qualities of great men of power to step back and recognize their error, they think of what

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38:54

3-16 That’s no moon...

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2023/04/09

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11rk5au/measuring_tap_displaying_the_sun_and_moon/ Post Summary: 47, Zhimen's straw sandals A monk asked Zhimen, "What is Buddha?" (Better ask about a piece of dry crap.) Zhimen said, "Wearing out straw sandals, walking barefoot." (This is trailing mud and water.) The monk asked, "What is the task beyond Buddha?" (There has always been ascent and descent.) Zhimen said, "Displaying

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39:07

3-16 Original Buddhahood

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2023/04/09

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11qy7tr/buddhahood/ Post Summary: What is original Buddhahood? That’s the whole post. Zen Teaching: All over the place Post Cast Overview: What’s self? What is identity? Who gets to say? Doctrine v/s Observation. Observing self is observing what, exactly? Identity, culture, gender, sex, accents. Where are you going with this? Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

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37:07

3-15 What Enlightenment is Really Like

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2023/03/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11rbrdc/what_enlightenment_is_really_like/ Post Summary: Mingben said, "What it's really like is Xiangyan hearing a stone strike a hollow stalk of bamboo; Zen Teaching: Mingben's Illusionary Man! First translated on r/Zen! Post Cast Overview: It's three people. I'm in the middle of a move. It's the bottom of the barrel here people, in terms of clerical work. Zen Lineage:

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39:25

Hidden Treasure

Zen Talking ·

2023/03/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: /r/zen/the_hidden_treasure Post Summary: The Great Master Yunmen said, “All across heaven and earth and throughout the entire universe, there is a treasure at the center of it all, hidden, within it’s own body. It raises aloft a lantern toward the Buddha within the Hall and places the three gates onto the top of the lamp.” Zen Teaching: It's either Yunmen's Record by Urs App or Dahui's Shobogenzo... those are my

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39:08

3-9 Enemies of Zen

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2023/03/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Post Summary: Zen is not tolerant and peaceful. There are a number of enemies that Zen Masters are eager to challenge: Fakers who aren't enlightened but want people to think they are Dongshan questions the head monk to death 2.People who practice a religion of ideas instead of personal experience Elder Ting on the Bridge. 3. People who believe in an doctrine of Truth aka Revelation (Buddhists,

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38:25

23-3-7 To Seek is to Deviate

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2023/03/21

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11jm4xo/to_seek_is_to_deviate/ Post Summary: Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the Way?" Nanquan answered, "Your ordinary mind, that is the Way." Zhaozhou said, "Does it go in any particular direction?’’ Nanquan replied, "The more you seek after it, the more it runs away." Zhaozhou: "Then how can you know it is the Way?" Nanquan: "The Way does not belong to knowing or not knowing

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38:06

23-3-7 Violence

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2023/03/21

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases Post Summary: Cases that frequently address modern misconceptions about Zen. Zen Teaching: Post Cast Overview: Absolutely no Zen background… what about the violence? What about enlightenment? What about... Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

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38:33

3-5 Entering Non-duality

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2023/03/21

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11i4yik/what_did_vimalakirti_say/ Post Summary: This is the 48th case from Wansong’s Book of Serenity, Vimalakirti asked Manjusri, "What is a Bodhisattva’s method of entering nonduality?"   Manjusri said, "According to my mind, in all things, no speech, no explanation, no direction and no representation, leaving behind all questions and answers—this is the method of entering

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38:43

3-4 Devil's Army

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2023/03/16

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8jssd/can_anyone_explain_wumens_quote/ Post Summary: Wumen's Rule #2: https://www.reddit.com//r/zen/wiki/warnings Doing what you like in every way is heresy and being among the devil's army. Zen Teaching: Wumen’s Checkpoint, aka the Gateless Barrier or Gateless Gate. Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

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39:09

2-28 No Discrimination?

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2023/03/16

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11b8tog/nondiscriminatory_discriminating/ Post Summary: You must find the nondiscriminatory mind without departing from the discriminating mind; find that which has no seeing or hearing without departing from seeing and hearing. Zen Teaching: Dahui’s Original Shobogenzo, Foyan from Instant Zen Post Cast Overview: Discrimination, chair as object, preferences, life death chocolate

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39:21

Feb 26 2023 - Meet the Zen Masters!

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2023/03/16

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11behbs/what_zen_master_would_you_most_want_to_meet/ Post Summary: What Zen Master would you want to meet? Zen Teaching: the Zen Canon starting with Get Started Post Cast Overview: Easy question to answer? Some people can’t. Thich Hahn. Ikkyu was icky. Who is your first choice? Why? What about the precepts? What can you get away with? Who is your second choice? Zen Lineage:

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39:16

Feb 23 - Faith in Mind

Zen Talking ·

2023/03/09

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/4us6c3/blyths_translation_of_faith_in_mind/ Post Summary: Remaining in movement or quiescence, How shall you know the One? Not thoroughly understanding the unity of the way Both (activity and quiescence) are failures. If you get rid of phenomena, All things are lost; if you follow after Void, You turn your back on the the selflessness of things. Zen Teaching: Faith in Mind, Blyth

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38:47

Feb 22 - Revenge of the Joshu Tree

Zen Talking ·

2023/03/09

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/116v10p/the_revenge_of_zhaozhous_tree/ Post Summary: Master Zhaozhou said, This matter is clearly evident - even immeasurably great people can't get out of here. When I went to Guishan, I saw a monk ask, "What is the meaning of the Chan founder's coming from the West?" Guishan said, "Bring me a chair." If one is a real Chan master one has to deal with people on the basis of one's

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