x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

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?

religion & spirituality buddhism

All Episodes

47:08

Mar 15 2025 - Tough Guy Zen: Time travel to kill baby...

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/18

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jbcxlb/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryyunmen_if_i_was/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Time travel to kill baby Buddha vs baby Hitler Baby Hitler vs trolly problem Sutras not true, nobody thinks infant buddha said that history of anti-Zen conduct by Buddhists and newagers newagers can't quote books, so they differ from traditional religious bigotry Jim Gaffigan might say Yunmen "too

en-us

01:17:39

March 14 2025 - Zen Talking, Zen Poetry: A Verse for...

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/14

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jabfde/a_verse_for_prajnatara/ Link to episode: Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? It took us an hour and change to get here: A cloud rhino gazes at the crescent moon1, its light engulfing radiance; A wood horse2 romps in spring, swift and unbridled. Under [Bodhidharma's] eyebrows, a pair of cold blue eyes; How can reading scriptures reach the piercing of [Shitou Xiqian's] oxhide3? The

en-us

58:39

March 4 2025 - Transcendental Teachers

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/07

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1j3a1bf/huangbo_no_hope_wo_mahayana_master/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Who is your teacher? What does it mean when somebody has no teacher, no text, no tradition? Who are these people that don't? Who are the people who have but can't say? The new age movement and the moment of realization. Why does Huangbo say you need a meeting with a transcendental teacher? #You can be on

en-us

01:21:18

March 4 2025 - Book of Serenity Case 3

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/05

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1iv8odu/translating_prajnataras_recitation_of_scripture/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Mostly about the Introduction and Case with Wansong commentary. It's a complex bit of writing with some translating problems. Cleary seems to have wanted to minimize the anti-Buddhist aspsects. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post you want

en-us

56:19

March 1 2025: Sincerity about Zen

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/04

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ize5fb/sincerity_is_it_the_topic_or_the_format_or_the/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? How do we test for sincerity in books, conversations, and life? Does it matter? This problem just gets worse from every angle. Also a movie recommendation. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or you

en-us

01:00:03

Feb 15 2025 | One Finger Zen

Zen Talking ·

2025/03/01

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1io3ped/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryone_finger_zen/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? It's not "boy" or "teenager" or "greeter". It's Personal Assitant to a Zen Master. It's not "arm" or "forearm" or "hand" or even "whole finger". With these translations we have multiple problems: 1. logistical problem, chopping off with what? gotten where? with what medical emergency? 2. language

en-us

59:47

Feb 10, 2025 - Wumenguan: Anwan's 49th Case

Zen Talking ·

2025/02/15

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/VpZF9KQlmn Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Why does it matter what Anwan said? Did Zen Master Buddha talk too much? What is the point if it's direct experience? Translation problems and footnotes. Tiliting at convienence stores. What is art? Does it matter how hard you work or whether it's art? #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post

en-us

01:05:55

Feb 2 2025 - Mazu's Bow Down

Zen Talking ·

2025/02/10

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1icc8dx/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryshuilao_facing/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Disagree. Not about ignorance. Possible wordings: 1. Bodhidharma came from the West to show reverence 2. In that Bodhidharma came, you should show reverence 3. ? Bodhidharma was able to come from the West because he was reverent 4. If you are asking me about Bodhidharma, then you should bow Showing

en-us

01:01:39

Jan 29 - 2025 |

Zen Talking ·

2025/02/01

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1h0js2q/more_checkpoints/ "How is my hand like the hand of Buddha?" "How is my leg like the leg of a donkey?" "Everyone exists by a particular cause of birth." I'm not even. Don't listen while driving on a freeway or interstate. I was confused the whole episode. If you want to know what a thankyou letter from a Zen Master sounds like, that what this Case is about. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares!

en-us

55:26

1-12-25 || Zhaozhou's Nice Things We Can't Have

Zen Talking ·

2025/01/29

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1i69u56/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryzhaozhous_good_thing/ The master was leaving the main hall when he saw a monk bowing to him. The master struck him with his stick. The monk said, "But bowing is a good thing’” The master said. “A good thing is not as good as nothing. Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Disagree! Lots of disagreement. Why is there ridicule in Zen? Why is there

en-us

01:14:24

Jan 4 25 || Least Popular Questions

Zen Talking ·

2025/01/28

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hpmfum/least_popular_questions/ Who do you think is enlightened in modern times? What Zen texts have you read? What's your practice/doctrine/text? Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? How 1900's culture was particularly disingenuous, is the root of modern anti-intellectualism. Beginner's Mind - poopoo-ing enlightement, not interested in merit, karma, 8fp... but unashamedly claims Zen

en-us

01:14:44

12-28-2024 | Koans - Records of the Winners

Zen Talking ·

2025/01/05

#Post(s) in Question Post under discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hkmjir/koans_the_record_of_winners/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we discuss? Records of winners? What is a koan? Which koans matter? Conversation about what? What is conversation? Explicitly public vs explicitly private. Zen goals vs church goals. Judging people by their own standards not someone else's. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a

en-us

01:00:22

12-21-24 || Zhaozhou's birth family

Zen Talking ·

2024/12/28

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hinlqv/zhaozhou_avoiding_his_birth_family_intimacy/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 was zhaozhou talking about his family? cousins? he was 70? was zhaozhou referencing his old teacher? seeing one time is a big zen theme net of love is a sex sutra? who is hakamaya and what's wrong with academia western buddhist academia as "mostly 1960's" and not "mostly buddhist" #You can be on the podcast! Use a

en-us

01:10:28

12-19-2024 || Wash Your Bowl (?)

Zen Talking ·

2024/12/19

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hb3cec/zen_for_dingbats_wumens_gate_case_7_zhaozhous/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 What does "wash your bowl" mean? Educated in the record - not the norm in Zen, but the norm everywhere else. What does the word "everyday" even mean? Fun with "overly vague" terms If:then statement as instruction Triangulating Interpretation: Three Cases by that Master. Three discussions of the Case by other Masters

en-us

01:04:59

12-14-24 || Dualistic thinking vs Faith-based Dualism

Zen Talking ·

2024/12/17

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1haggbg/zen_dualistic_thinking_vs_western_buddhist_duality/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 What do Buddhists believe? Most people who use the term "dualism" are NOT Buddhist, and use the "dualism" as a wild card to defend irrationality, as in to separate lying/truth is dualism. To make arguments based on fact instead of fiction is "dualism". What is "religion"? Part of a group with common beliefs that can be

en-us

01:38:20

11-25-24 || Wumen's Warnings

Zen Talking ·

2024/12/14

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1guflov/wumens_gateless_checkpoint/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? Why are the warnings left out? Japan's marketing power extends to cults. Why does language work that way? Read the Japanese study on fault and cause in passive voice. Learning language and it's confusing. Philosophical

en-us

59:08

11-24-24 || Gateless's Fairwell, Part 2 - Notes from...

Zen Talking ·

2024/11/25

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1guflov/wumens_gateless_checkpoint/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? A list of questions and criticisms based on notes from the previous episode, and some bewiderment at why people pretend to know what enlightenment is in the comments. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody

en-us

01:36:04

11-20 || Wumen's Postscript - No Gates!

Zen Talking ·

2024/11/22

#Post(s) in Question Link to episode: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1guflov/wumens_gateless_checkpoint/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? Wumen's "facts" philosophy is like art history in it's shrouded mystery to the public Science is a branch of philosophy, but philophy is taught as religion Is Science subjective? Wumen's checkpoint is the

en-us

49:58

11-16-2024 || Xutang 34

Zen Talking ·

2024/11/20

#Post(s) in Question Post: Xutang's Empty Hall 34, no post! Heresy! Link to episode: Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? 舉。葉縣省和尚問僧。日暮投林。朝離何處。云。某甲不曾參禪。縣云。爾生身入地獄。僧無語。代云。誰不承恩。 Yexian Sheng, the Chan master, asked a monk, 'In the evening you enter the forest. In the morning, where do you leave from?' The monk replied, 'I have not yet engaged in Zen

en-us

01:05:39

11-13-2024 || Gateless's 48: Only Road to...

Zen Talking ·

2024/11/16

#Post(s) in Question Post: Link to episode: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1g59izn/three_barriers/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? This is going over the same ground, but in a different way, compared to the previous episode. Lots more arguments about The Fish. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if

en-us

270 results

Similar Podcasts

Jeff Haygood, Pastor

PodPoint

PASTOR ALVARO VALENCIA

Pastor Alvaro Valencia

Grace Life Church CT.

Joseph Levesque

Pleasant View Church

Ted Nance

Christian Heritage Church"s Podcast

PodPoint