Zen Talking

#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. #Y...

#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 pseudony...

#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. l...

#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...

#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 t...

#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 soun...

#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 d...

#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 Mi...

#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 stan...

#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 buddh...

#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 Triangula...

#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...

#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 Jap...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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 argumen...

#Post(s) in Question Post:   https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1g59izn/three_barriers/ 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? Here's a translation, you can see where it's going: Qianfeng, the monk, was asked by a monk: "The Bhagavān (Buddh...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1g59izn/three_barriers/ Wonderwheel: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-47.htm 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? why does wumen say "answer correctly"?  what does "corre...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fz22ci/i_made_a_video_of_how_i_translate_mingbens/ 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? Do people even know what they are talking about? Translation of Mingben's opening gam...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1g1ytgq/the_impossible_checklist/ 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? Do people even know what they are talking about? Non-vegitarian Zen Masters (maybe two?) dumpster diving... and we're off....

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fxlg3a/enlightenment_doesnt_make_you_better_at_seeing/ 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? How to translate the Case, and how the Case, Lecture, and Instructional Verse combine into a cohere...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1foxz7c/tuesdama_dota2nub_how_zen_helped_me_with_my/ 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? Cults... doctors... religion... Zen. #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fs2rxj/categories_for_classifying_cases/ 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? Translation, of course, and other stuff that I can't remember about the Past and Future Buddhas.   You can be on...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fs2rxj/categories_for_classifying_cases/ 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? Here's an example: Which of these is the Xutang [Sew Tang] last line: 1. Instead of leaving, Xuefeng said XYZ 2. As...