Zen Talking

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zgka4q/go_fish_ft_jiashan_and_the_boatman/ Post Summary : He also asked, "Letting down a line a thousand fathoms, the intent is in the depths. Three inches away from the hook, why don't you speak?" As Jiashan was about to open his mouth, the Boatman knocked him into the water with...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8c6py/zen_is_a_system_of_thought_based_on_enlightenment Post Summary : Zen is not random. Zen is not religion based on faith. Zen is not philosophy, based on logically proceeding from a given starting point. Zen Teaching : All of them. The history of Zen teachings, teachings abou...

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yqyrmw/questions_about_yuanwus_commentary_for_bcr_98/ Post Summary: User asks questions about the 98th case of the Blue Cliff Record. Most notably things that help clear up what Yuanwu is saying in his commentary when using metaphors and other literary figures.  Zen Teaching: Yuanwu's Blue Cliff Record case 98 Post Cast Overview: astroemi and Gree...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/za5mwr/zen_under_the_gun_answering_a_madman/ Post Summary : Dalan said: "After the end of the summer retreat, all of you Zen worthies will go off in various directions. "Suppose that suddenly in a village of three families you bump into a madman who asks you this: 'Eminent one, yo...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z4504a/what_you_havent_done/ Post Summary : 35 th Case from BoS. It's a chicken roosting in a phoenix nest. The moon in the clouds is the same. Before my eyes there is no you, no me. Zen Teaching : Book of Serenity, Cleary Post Cast Overview: Something, something, hooks and fish. A re...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z4yk2b/zen_under_the_gun_buddhas_defeat/ Post Summary : " Buddha's end was a scene of defeat. In the assembly of billions, not one had the energy of a patchrobed monk. Zen Teaching : Zen Under the Gun: Four generations of Masters Post Cast Overview: The Cases before and after. The...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yze4pa/a_few_good_zen_cases/ Post Summary : A monk asked, "What about it when practice has no end and enquiry has no end?' Zhaozhou said, "Whether there is an end or not, in the eyes of a person of the Way it is like a drop of spit." The monk said, "What is the fact of 'that' [state o...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z0acq9/gaoans_conduct_and_virtue/ Post Summary : Once when one of the monastery officers refused to make such an expenditure, Gaoan upbraided him, saying, in ancient times the founder of the Chan commune established the treasury for the sake of the aged and infirm. You are not sic...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yy8akj/you_arent_paying_fing_attention_get_it_together/ Post Summary : Dharma combat isn't combat "By still depending on teachings, you sicken your mind," said Ch'u. "But how great is the sickness of the one who talks about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" said...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yrfop9/can_someone_explain_koans_to_me/ Post Summary : If I am being honest, I am probably trying to achieve some state where I can feel perfectly good all the time or at least live my life 100% fully and appreciate and have a good time.  Podcast Highlights: Somebody explains some...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ypt3lf/medicine_buffet/ Post Summary : Part 2, because people can pick whatever they want Podcast Highlights: What is medicine and disease? Who gets to have a conversation… what historians and translators are up to... Zen Teaching : same same Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Post summary: Master Fachang Yu brought up to master Nan the minister Chang's contemplation of the saying about circumstances of birth. Fachang said, "Why not put an immediate end for him?" Nan said, "Legs were drawn for a snake, but he didn't get a glimpse." Fachang said, "How did you help him?" Nan said, "Chewing up raw ginger,...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Quotes about Enlightenment Zen Teaching : www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted Reddit Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yjto51/enlightenment_no_doubt_will_remain/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted  

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Zen Teaching : Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu: https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X/ Reddit Post : https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yigo49/the_wrong_man_and_the_right_way/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : What's a famous one liner you think is Zen? And is it? Zen Teaching : All of it!  www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases Reddit Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ye0aly/favorite_zen_one_liners/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Gulin (1262-1329) Gulin said, "When the particular time arrives, the truth is spontaneously apparent. The sunlight does not wait for a fire to be warm. The moonlight does not wait for the breeze to be cool. The world is one rod wide, the ancient mirror is one rod wide, the stove is one rod wide. "Where the buddha-image i...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y9fwc6/looking_for_mendicants_to_live_the_same/ Post Summary : Passing unnoticed in the world. We know that Shakya's sons and daughters Are poor in body, but not in the [Way]. Zen Teaching : BCR?  Cleary?  Yuanwu?  Amazon?  "Read a book!" -Handy and the Human Ton Post Cast Overview: (...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y2ox55/im_not_the_good_guy/ Post Summary :  First, consider these statements... if you think you recognize them, pretend you don't: I like killing I'm not a Buddha Your mother is ugly I don't play children's games. What kind of person talks like this? Podcast Highlights:   I haven...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Zhaozhou, teaching the assembly, "The Ultimate Path is without difficulty; just avoid picking and choosing. As soon as there are words and speech, 'this is picking and choosing,' 'this is clarity.' This old monk does not abide within clarity; do you still preserve anything or not?" Once there was a monk who asked, "Since...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : The post is a rant about the impurity of society... is there any good guy?  Is big business the big bad?  Is it morally wrong to participate in a free market?  Is all higher education just conformity programming? Zen Teaching : Laymen Pang, Green trans. https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/15903063...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Speaking to the patrons at the festival, Gulin said,  "Nanquan said, 'The whole world in my patron'. He wasn't fooling you!"   Zen Teaching : Zen Under the Gun Reddit Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xv03x1/zen_under_the_gun_nanquan_is_not_forgotten/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Bodhidharma Anthology , records from around 550ish Dharma Master Chih saw Dharma Master Yuan on the street of the butchers and asked, "Do you see the butchers slaughtering the sheep? Dharma master Yuan said, "My eyes are not blind. How could I not see them? Dharma Master chih said, "Master Yuan, you are saying you see it...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Yuantong's Question: Practicing mysticism is still going on a steep and difficult path; what is level ground1? Wansong's Answer: East, west, south, north. Linquan's Instructional Verse: East, west, south, north- thorns piercing the heavens. A stone man without legs needn't exert effort. You still must pass through that d...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : A monk asked, "Mixing without becoming impure - what is that like?" Joshu said, "I eat only vegetable food; I always adhere to the precepts." The monk said, "Can one elevate oneself in this way?" Joshu said, "You would trespass against the law." Zen Teaching : Zen Under the Gun: Four generations of Masters 1200-1400 http...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Yangshan said, "From now on what should be my mode of life?" Guishan said, "I admire your Dharma Eye; I am not concerned about the practical side of the matter."   Zen Teaching : Blyth Zen and Zen Classics on Terebess, Yunmen on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Master-Yunmen-Essential-Sayings/dp/1611805597 Reddit Post...