Zen Talking

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/17bwohk/whats_at_stake_the_set_of_good_the_set_of_bad/ Post Summary : Don't seek Buddha, don't seek the teaching, don't seek the community, and so forth; don't seek virtue and knowledge, intellectual understanding and so forth. When feelings of defilement and purity are ended, sti...

10-12 Wumeng Case 3 - Astro r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  (a summary of nothing is nothing) Post Summary :  (there wasn't one) Zen Teaching :  http://home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-3.htm Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted

...this is likely the actual 2, and 1 was mislabeled... but let's roll the dice...   r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  Post Summary : Is this Bizhang's fox? Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen sangha /wiki/getstarted and www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/wumenguan

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/16rqz8j/anybody_wanna_race_remembering_the_hanzi/ Post Summary : Learning Chinese? Zen Teaching : Language as interface? Post Cast Overview: 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/15pybbu/strategic_death_on_how_zen_masters_get_out_of/ Post Summary : A monk asked Master Dasui Fazhen, "When the kalpa of fire burns through, and the universe is destroyed, I was wondering, will this be destroyed or not?" The Master said, "Destroyed." "Let it be." The monk did no...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/s/zB2q3gVfdP Post Summary : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/16pim0m/temet_nosce/ Zen Teaching : Not really? Post Cast Overview: I'm not even going to try Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15rfjyf/why_are_your_here_or_why_zen_anxiolytics/ Post Summary : Gasdark - I recently made a post asking redditors whether or not they were afraid of their own thoughts. Though a small sample size, of 12 respondents, 9 indicated that, to some degree or another, they were. The Sixt...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14uiyc0/shit_filth_and_david_foster_wallace/?rdt=54057 Post Summary : Shit sticks, history. Somebody already thought that. Uninventing the wheel. Zen Teaching : Is this another shit stick one?  Check the stick. Post Cast Overview: Do perspectives matter? Zen Lineage: www.reddit.co...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  None!  We're off book! Post Summary :  Preface of the most famous book of Zen instruction in human history. Zen Teaching : Wumenguan; I recommend the following translations: JC Cleary's Three Chan Classics or Blyth's Mumonkan . Post Cast Overview: Wumen's preface is snappy. Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wik...

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r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1699v0z/zens_big_questions/ Post Summary : Can you identify famous examples of Zen Masters asking Big Questions? Zen Teaching : www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted Post Cast Overview: Zen Masters ask and answer big questions… and big questions can make people uncomfortable…...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15sjq0w/weekly_dose_of_serenity_case_63/ Post Summary : Zhaozhou asked Touzi, "When someone who has undergone the great death then returns to life, how is it?" Touzi said, "He can't go by night--he should arrive in daylight." Zen Teaching : Yuanwu's book of Zen instruction Book of...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15qfes6/snatched_away_by_sense_objects/ Zen Teaching : Often people of sharp faculties and superior intellect get it without expending a lot of effort. They subsequently produce easy-going thoughts and do not engage in practice. In any case, they are snatched away by sense objec...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14kisif/foyan_the_presence_of_the_body_and_mind Post Summary : Your body is not there, yet not nothing. It's presence is the presence of the body in the mind; so it has never been there. Its nothingness is the absence of the body in the mind; so it has never been nothing. Do you...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14ffn30/what_you_see_and_i_dont/ Post Summary:  The monk asks: 'When the master meditates does he see or not?' The master whacks the monk on the head three times and asks: 'When I hit you just then, did it hurt or not?' The monk replied 'It hurt and it didn't' The master then said...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13tph3w/baiyun_duan_81_the_boy_who_attends_to_the_lamps/ Post Summary : Master Baoen Xuanze asked Qingfeng, "What is this student's self?" Qingfeng said, "The boy who attends to the lamps has come seeking fire," after which Baoen announced he had seen the Dharma. Zen Teaching :...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15cvsvu/tossing_a_snake_into_the_fire/ Post Summary : In the process of burning a clearing in the mountains, Master Dasui saw a snake; tossing it into the fire with his staff, he clucked his tongue and said, "You still won't give up this physical body on your own; for you to die h...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/149gpdt/self_and_things/ Post Summary : Time and again I see longtime Zen students who have been freezing their spirits and letting their perception settle out and clarify for a long time. Though they have entered the Way, they immediately accepted a single device or a single st...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/147yhqd/what_if_im_not_good_enough/ Post Summary : Foyan:   There is another type of Zen teacher who tells people not to make logical assessments, that they lose contact the minute they speak, and should recognize the primordial. This kind of "teacher" has no explanation at all....

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13rnwho/observing_without_making_a_nest Post Summary : Just being the way you naturally are – whether you're talking or keeping quiet, moving around or sitting still – and not ornamenting it with lots of branches and leaves: this is the great gate to freedom. But to ford that rive...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13wpglm/joshu_and_intellect/ Post Summary : A monk asked, "Usually when there are questions and answers, the intellect is involved. Without being involved with intellect, how will you respond?" The master said, "Ask a question. " The monk said, "Please say something. " The maste...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13th9am/zens_dharma_interviews_a_test_we_can_all_agree_on/ Post Summary : Accordingly, the Master said, "I don't inquire about the realm of the Buddha or the realm of the Path; rather, what kind of person is he who talks thus about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Pa...