Zen Talking

See part 1

Here's the starting points: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1c1h0tk/liar_5_times_zen_masters_instructed_meditation_not/ https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1bz1iz3/5_times_zen_masters_instructed_meditation/

https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1c4luf3/do_you_need_a_teacher/ Do you need a teacher? What is a teacher? Are we in a time where people are turning against teachers? What qualifies anyone to be a teacher? What is the test for having-been-taught?

https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1by6jag/meta_blocking_and_zen/   I came across this in measuring tap: Beichan then hit him.  This monk didn't accept, and was subsequently driven out. So there are criteria for not giving people the floor endlessly, let alone refusing to engage with people who won't answer, like Yunmen: Why don't you go do them? What piece of dried shit are you looking for her...

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1btbvfp/what_is_the_true_way_of_zen_teaching/   https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1bv27e8/rzen_postoftheweek_podcast/?

Discussing this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1bmmhg7/dont_get_zen_wrong_its_a_farmers_market/ Posted to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1bq7tgt/rzen_post_of_the_week_podcast_econ_of_farmers/?    

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1bleups/understanding_the_lay_precepts/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ah5tig/17_retire_from_office_miaozongs_verses_translated/ Post Summary : Discussion of the translation of a Case from Miaozong's book of instruction Zen Teaching : Zen Master Miaozong's book of instructional verse Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.c...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/19ev1cg/tracing_the_early_zen_school_continued/ Post Summary : Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/19egf6r/layman_pang_fasted_to_death/ Post Summary : On another day, Tan-hsia came to visit the Layman. As he entered the gateway they saw each other and Tan-hsia asked, "Is the Layman here or not?"! The Layman said, "He died of starvation while fasting." Tan-hsia said, "Well, is...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1av66kq/do_trees_deserve_a_beating/ Post Summary : All about Case 15, where Shochou says where he spent his summer and Yunmen says he should be viciously beaten for it. Zen Teaching :http://home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-15.htm Post Cast Overview: We go through the Case, the lectu...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/HwDWUnQFh9 Post Summary : Yunmen once seized his staff, banged it on the seat and said, "All sounds are the Buddha's voice, and all forms are the Buddha's shape. Yet when you hold your bowl and eat your food, you hold a 'bowl-view'; when you walk, you hold a 'walk-view'; and when you s...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/196hqs7/zen_hopefuls_faith_in_teachings_vs_normies_trust/ Post Summary : A while ago ewk gave a description of the difference between trust and faith that stuck with me and has influenced my thinking quite a bit ever since. To paraphrase: faith can ignore evidence in favour of c...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/192cmi1/what_are_some_fundamental_texts_to_read_the_less/ Post Summary : What is a Zen text? Where are the sutras? Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/mO9j80BU2v Post Summary : ewk claims to have derived Zen precepts algorythmically, chaos ensues. 1st Zen Precept: No Nest, No Tracks Having no nest means not preferring some particular set of faith-based principles, not insisting on only one answer or formula, not clinging or attaching t...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18rkcoe/poor_helpless_and_drunk/ Post Summary : It's about this. Zen Teaching : The Gateless Checkpoint of the Zen Lineage Chan Zong Wumen Guan (J. Mumonkan) 禅 宗無門 關 By Wumen Huikai ( 1183-1260, J. Mumon Ekai)  Translated by Gregory Wonderwheel © 2007   10. Qingshui is Orph...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18pv108/christmas_eve_message_buddha_was_cured/ Post Summary : I am going to mix in lots of weird ingredients, but keep in mind that Zen Masters teach Zen Master Buddha was cured In fact, that is the only possible interpretation of the Buddha myth. He is born, gets up from under...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18emajv/ama_usedsuggestion4412/ Post Summary : Foyan's Independence and Freedom passage was the first thing I read in Zen that blew me away. Without thinking, I wrote it down to memorize it and then for several days, I reread it in my mind, contemplating what it meant. Zen Teach...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18ebx91/real_life_zen_versus_church/ Post Summary : Zen Masters either quitting or joining and what is "real life" experience Zen Teaching : Xuefeng, Huineng, Yuanwu Post Cast Overview: What rules are there? What is work? Which kinds of work are real? The individual in the real...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18bw9aw/wash_the_bowl/ Post Summary : Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/18cqim5/disagreeing_with_zen_masters/ Post Summary : Is there any disagreement in Zen? Zen Teaching : Though Ch'ang Ch'ing, Hsuan Sha, and Yun Men can handle the snake, they don't see. After all Hsueh Tou says, "Right now it's hidden here on Ju Peak; those who come, one by one o...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/81001943417?pwd=irT8pNwTANzHtVdhMb86VMprkU97DA.1 Post Summary : Buddha Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Post Summary : Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/17hzyof/wansong_big_contributor_to_the_conversation_about/ Post Summary : Consider this passage from BoS: Commentary: Chan Master Benji of Caoshan in Fu province was also named Tanzhang--this must be an honorific title or a posthumous name. When he first left Dongshan, he went t...

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  Post Summary :Bodhidharma has no beard? Zen Teaching : trans by Wonderwheel:  home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-4.htm 4.  Mr. Barbarian Without a Beard    [MM 14] Huoan said, "Mr. Barbarian from the Western Heaven, why do you have no beard?"   Wumen Says:  Meetin...