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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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Feb 19, 2023 - Anti-Zen

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/10sebu9/antimasters/ Post Summary: I was thinking about how to characterize Zen texts by saying the main thing the texts were against. I don't think there's a right answer, but there are answers that aren't really reasonable. Zhaozhou - anti philosophy Huangbo - anti Buddhism Foyan - anti-teachers Wumen - anti noobs Yuanwu - anti lazy Wansong - anti ignorance Mingben -

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38:04

Zen Hits from Daian

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/28

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10xfaeg/zen_under_the_gun_just_the_hits_please/ Post Summary: Daian (1347-1403) We are at the end, and it's Daian's poetry. He does the traditional thing (unlike Wumen) and includes only one body blow per poem. Here are the blows from three poems, minus the poems: If not for my dharma-nephew, how would I open my old mouth to discuss it? . In the treasury, the light of the

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38:14

Zen: Why bother?

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/28

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/110vec7/zen_under_the_gun_why_bother/ Post Summary: Daian (1347-1403) The Natural Real Buddha (A verse to a Buddhist layman:) The true self in every person is the natural real buddha. Through every hour of the day and night it is always emitting light. If you can manage to see it personally as you lift your eyebrows, Why bother making special trips all over to pay your respects to

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38:19

Feb 8, 2023 Zhaozhou’s Tree in the Front Yard

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10wkbwn/a_tree/ Post Summary: A monk asked Zhaozhou, "What is the living meaning of [Zen]?" Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the yard." … don’t teach by means of materialism. I’m not. So what is the Zen Master Buddha Dharma? The tree in the front yard. Zen Teaching: Book of Serenity, the Modern Soto Zen bible, by Zen Master Wansong Post Cast Overview: The full Case. What

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39:09

Feb 2, 2023 Stainless Study

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10rbpcb/zen_under_the_gun_stainless_study/ Post Summary: In front of the hall of the ancient buddhas, there has never been any other road. In the gate of the ancestral teachers, how could there be many kinds of talk? The Buddha Dharma is not different from the human mind: all inherent functioning is the intent of the enlightened ancestors. The deviation comes because of grasping

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38:48

1-25-23 Commander of the Universe

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/05

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10if4d7/a_garuda_takes_command_of_the_universe/ Post Summary: A monk asked Master Xingyang Pou, "A dragon king comes out of the sea, sky and earth are tranquil—how is direct presentation?" The master said, "The garuda, king of birds, takes command of the universe—who can stick his head out here?" The monk said, "Suppose one suddenly appears, then what?" Xingyang said, "It's like a

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1-24-23 Huineng gives dating advice

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/05

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10gctc2/huineng_dating_advice_personalizing_the_text/ Post Summary: Huineng: "To concentrate the mind on quietness is a disease of the mind, and not Zen at all. What an idea, restricting the body to sitting all the time! That is useless. Listen to my verse: To sit and not lie down during one's life-time To lie and never sit during one's death-time, Why should we thus task This

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39:41

Feb-1-2023 (experimental) What the heck is going on?

Zen Talking ·

2023/02/01

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10qb691/already_gone/ Post Summary: Later on,‭ when the Master (Yin-feng) arrived at (Guishan’s),‭ he put his robe and bowl on the head monk's seat.‭ When Guishan heard that his younger Dharma-brother had come,‭ he formally went to the hall to meet him.‭ When the Master saw him,‭ he lay down as if asleep.‭ Guishan’s returned to his quarters,‭ and the Master started to leave.‭ A bit

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1-21-23 Holy Bell of Zen, Batmonk!

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10dzy9t/zen_under_the_gun_the_great_bell_of_the_zen/ Post Summary: "The Dharma is like a great bell hanging in an arch. Strike it hard and the sound is great, strike it lightly and the sound is slight. It is like a clear mirror on its stand-when a foreigner comes up to it, a foreigner appears in it, and when a native comes up to it, a native appears in it. Zen Teaching: Zen Under

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1-17-23 The XIANGYAN SHOW... in Three Verses

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10b4bv4/xiangyans_three_verses/ Post Summary: The XIANGYAN SHOW One strike and all knowledge is forgotten. No more the mere pretense of practice. Transformed to uphold the ancient path, Not sunk in idle devices. Far and wide, not a trace is left. The great purpose lies beyond sound and form. In every direction the realized Way, Beyond all speech, the ultimate principle.

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1-11-23 When We Meet

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/30

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/107vxz0/zen_under_the_gun_when_you_meet_people/ Post Summary: Daian said: "In Zen centers everywhere, they speak of Zen and the Way and quote ancient and modern. Dragons and elephants crowd around and the Dharma assemblies are flourishing and full. "Here at Jingshan with one-flavor Zen I settle cases on the basis of the facts. If someone comes in with his whole body covered with silk

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1-6-23 Two More Hermits

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/22

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary: Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is there? Is there?" That hermit also raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Able to let go, able to take away;

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38:41

1-5-23 Two Hermits, One Big Problem

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/22

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary: Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is there? Is there?" That hermit also raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Able to let go, able to take away;

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38:05

12-31 No Rank!

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/22

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zxefwk/a_true_man_of_no_rank_changes_the_former_behavior/ Post Summary: Linji said to the assembly, "There is a true man with no rank always going out and in through the portals of your face. Beginners who have not yet witnessed it, look! Look! Zen Teaching: 38th case from Wansong’s Book of Serenity, Modern Zen Bible! Soto Zen Book of Instruction!

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38:40

12-31 Standing, Facing A Wall

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/15

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zz5gls/9_years_is_a_long_time_to_stare_at_a_wall/ Post Summary: Emperor Wu of Liang asked Great Master Bodhidharma, “What is the highest meaning of the holy reality?” Bodhidharma replied, “Vast and void, no holiness.” The emperor said, “Who are you in front of me?” Bodhidharma said, “I don't know.” The emperor did not match him. Finally, Bodhidharma crossed the Yangtze River and

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12-30 Better than Practice Application

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/15

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12-29 AMAing

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/14

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Christmas eve ewk AMA Post Summary: What’s up with ewk? Zen Teaching: Wumen’s Checkpoint aka Gateless Gate Post Cast Overview: What’s up with the supernatural? Are Zen Masters interested in God? What can we say is true? Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

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12-9 The Boat Monk

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/07

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zgka4q/go_fish_ft_jiashan_and_the_boatman/ Post Summary: He also asked, "Letting down a line a thousand fathoms, the intent is in the depths. Three inches away from the hook, why don't you speak?" As Jiashan was about to open his mouth, the Boatman knocked him into the water with a pole. As soon as climbed up into the boat, the Boatman again said, "Speak, speak!" As he was about to

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38:59

12-8 Zen Is a System of Thought, Based on...

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/07

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8c6py/zen_is_a_system_of_thought_based_on_enlightenment Post Summary: Zen is not random. Zen is not religion based on faith. Zen is not philosophy, based on logically proceeding from a given starting point. Zen Teaching: All of them. The history of Zen teachings, teachings about teachings, and Zen historical records. Post Cast Overview: Astromi has strong feelings. What is Zen

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11-17 Whose Wrongs Are Those?

Zen Talking ·

2023/01/07

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yqyrmw/questions_about_yuanwus_commentary_for_bcr_98/ Post Summary: User asks questions about the 98th case of the Blue Cliff Record. Most notably things that help clear up what Yuanwu is saying in his commentary when using metaphors and other literary figures. Zen Teaching: Yuanwu's Blue Cliff Record case 98 Post Cast Overview: astroemi and GreenSage read through the case and talk about how they understand it in order to answer as many questions

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