Zen Talking

                                                                                 Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ovutd7/nanquan_breaks_the_precepts/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? How to explain one culture to another? Who is to blame for a series of events? Who do rules matt...

                                                                                         Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post:  https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ou8o2m/from_the_open_thread_not_lacking/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Ascetism and poverty... Huangbo? Eating in context. Is there any standard for gree...

                                                                                                              Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ou8o2m/from_the_open_thread_not_lacking/? ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? What is poverty?  Zen Masters bragging on poverty of possessi...

                                                                                        Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question  ###Post:  https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1olllu9/moon_face_zen_master/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Social media... rZen... health... Zen has always been "social media" in it's history 95 Theses...

                                                                                                                                         Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1op5z79/bodhidharmas_mind_pacification_from_the_dms/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Short term clarity, long...

                                                                                                                                                          Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1oo6nj2/light_or_dark_recorded_sayings_of_zen_master/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Bright...

#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1o6d09y/lonely_footnote_60_feeding_grass/ ###Link to episode: Alms Giver's Ox, Tribeless Men, and the Loneliness Epidemic  ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? THE MALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC IS ROOTED IN NOT HAVING A "TRIBE" IN BOOKS Knowing: Blurt vs know-where-to-search vs believe it m...

#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1nwytsk/i_choose_violence_zen_study_in_a_violent_tradition/ ###Link to episode:  ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Cancel Culture as violence.  Zen Cancel Culture via Xiangyang. Physical violence.  Psychological violence.  Political speech, political violence. And some nerd segues i...

#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1n9p3s9/some_zen_koans_can_be_incredibly_absurd_but_how/   ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Theory of study: If you can't read French, then of course French confuses you.  If confusing yourself is your religion, you still can't claim that the French intended to confuse you by using...

#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1mgiv6r/building_a_single_belly_for_zen/   The Illusory Man by Zhonfeng Mingben 12. Enter The Gate Abruptly Understand that the Great Illusory Dharma Gate is right at the soles of your feet and has never moved a single hair. You just need for your delusions to be snuffed out, for your point of view to end. When you take a false st...

#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/askZen/comments/1mg51jw/making_sense_of_the_bcr_case_5_xuefengs_grain_of/ Xuefeng said to his group, (One blind man leading a crowd of the blind. It's not beyond him.) . "Pick up the whole world, and it;s as big as a grain of rice." (What technique is this> I myself have never sported devil eyes.)   ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsy...

#Post(s) in Question   ### Post: There wasn't a post!    ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831   # What did we talk about? Despite connection problems and mic quality, an interesting conversation with someone who knocked on some doors and has thoughts about that. I didn't edit the longest part because of integrity!  No?  It's because low production value is our brand!  Not reall...

#Post(s) in Question Post: Cause Effect and Community Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about?  1. cause & effect  2. "chilling effect" - people being discouraged from participation  3. Hermits v.s. socialites (retreating from public v.s. being beholden to public)  4. Being dangerous  5. Seeing with the same eyes as all the buddhas The hermit delusion loop vs...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ls8bau/treasury_492_dont_misconceive/ 'Muslin Robe' Zhao one night pointed to the half moon and asked elder Pu, "Where has the other part gone?" Pu said, "Don't     misconceive." Zhao said, "You've lost a piece."  Dahui said, "He gets up by himself and falls down by himself." Link to episode:  Link to all episodes: https://sites.lib...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1lq84sk/falling_into_cause_and_effect/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Zen Masters tell people that enlightenment is not based on cause and effect, and that enlightened people are not subject to karma.  This was heresy as far as 8fp Buddhists were concerned. Cause and effect mattered to...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/askZen/s/AiaILuDT3X Link to episode:   Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Who are the Patriarchs?  Previous translation errors.   How to make sense from one sentence to the next in Zen formal poetic instruction. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/askZen/comments/1k3q9px/a_zen_lady_in_translation_case_1_the/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Translating the first Case of the book of instruciton by a female Zen Master. Discussion of translation, history, Zen vs Buddhism. Propaganda, 1900's vs Chinese history, etc.   #You can be on the podcast! U...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jucfhx/koans_1000_years_of_history_about_how_to_survive/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? How do we know what "donkey" means in China, on a Zen commune, 1500 years ago? This is the problem that caused 1900's religious writing about Zen to implode. Why have koans lasted so long and conti...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jnfsd4/translation_error_sunday_picking_and_choosing/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? alternate translations mind body problems what you already have is it magic eye pictures, factory error trust in awareness touching awareness you can't see it, you can't not see it substitution game:...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jltjfd/zen_allows_only_sudden_enlightenment_but_how/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? why does enlightenment take so long if it's sudden? do people change over time? what does it mean to be somebody or to change? ship of thesseus     #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody c...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jfokwv/nanquans_cat_and_my_tunafish_sandwich/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Judging other people's values versus judging their hypocrisy Ethnocentrism Not knowing what you are  Ignorance vs pretending to be ignorant self awareness on a culture by culture basis why precepts conversati...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1jdbgrw/indra_builds_a_monastery/   Zen Master Buddha was walking with the congregation and he  pointed to the ground, "This spot is good to build a [commune]."  Indra, Emperor of the gods, took a blade of grass, stuck it in the ground, and said, "The [commune] is built."  The World Honored One smiled. Link to all episodes: https://s...

#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...

#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 pa...

#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 re...