Zen Talking

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : On another day, the Layman asked Ch'i-feng, "Do you know how far it is from here to the top of the peak?" Ch'i-feng said, "I'm not sure if you can really get there from here." The Layman said, "If it were so awfully steep and treacherous, I wouldn't have asked about it."" Ch'i-feng said, "You tell me how far it then."  ...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the s...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Despite what trolls, tryhards, wannabes, and outsiders have to say about  r/zen , this place is a resource like no other when it comes to the study of Zen. People who are serious waste no time… I can split that four years into three phases. There is the time when I was very ill mentally, leading up to diagnosis and treat...

r /zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Foyan said: "I urge you not to be crude minded. In your conduct, day and night, keep evolving higher; then even if you do not attain enlightenment, you will still be a highly refined individual. Be sure to be attentive"   Zen Teaching : Foyan, Cleary trans. - https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Zen-Waking-Up-Present/dp/15564...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : A monk asked Muzhou, "Can the entire canon be recited in one breath?" Muzhou said, "What pastries do you have? Set them right out!" Dahui said , "When you get up early in the morning, there are also people who've been traveling by night."   Zen Teaching : Dahui's Shobogenzo, trans. Cleary – no longer on Amazon Reddit Pos...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Can some people attain enlightenement, gain a glimpse of "the way," and forget about it to no longer be enlightened? Do the truly enlightened maintain their clarity eternally? Zen Teaching : Blyth's Zen and Zen Classics Volume 3 (Soto Zen) Reddit Post : https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x7otc3/can_enlightenment_be_lost_a...

r/zen is a reddit form about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Is not murdering, not lying, and not raping just optional? Follow your nature, blend with the Way, be free and easy, a stranger to all care. Text : Trust in Mind aka Faith in Mind, available all over. Let me know if you can't find it. Compare translations! Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x27ook/hot_take_adher...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : The Layman said, "I will do whatever is best." It came to pass that he never shaved his head to join the sangha. Text : Layman Pang: https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309 Post : https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x2wauo/zen_take_layman_pang_and_the_5_lay_precepts/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.c...

r /zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Master Yangshan went to Dongsi. Dongsi asked, "Where are you from?" Yangshan said, "I'm from Guangnan." Dongsi said, "I've heard that there is a bright pearl that stills the sea in Guanguan. Is this true?" Yangshan said, "Yes." Dongsi said, "What is this pearl like?" Yangshan said, "It is hidden when the moon is dark, a...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : " My cousin recently became Christian, and asked me if I read anything spiritual or religious. I told him I read the mumonkan and pitched it as "The Zen Bible"." Zen Teaching : Zhaozhou's "No" via https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X Reddit Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x0...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary :   I don't have as much of an issue with the idea of letting go of my own suffering, but when it comes to others, I feel some moralistic way about it, like sometimes I feel empathy or moral outrage. How does zen address this? Zen Teaching : Huangbo said, "Compassion is not seeing others as to-be enlightened" via https://w...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Yuanwu said, "A monk asked, "What is the task in the patch robe?" Xianglin said, "Fire burns a mountain in December." Yunmen said, "The twenty-fifty day of December-look look-the last month is ending." Xianglin is a son inheriting his father's [Yunmen's] business.    Zen Teaching : https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Ch...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Huangbo, via the text Teachings of Huang Po: 32) Once our Master requested a short leave of absence and Nan Shan asked where he was going. 'I'm just off to gather some vegetables.' 'What are you going to cut them with?' Our Master held up his knife, whereupon Nan Shan remarked: 'Well, that's all right for a guest but not...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : Is there a self in Zen?  If we can't quote Zen Masters, how would we know? Zen Teaching :  Try Mazu!  https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Face-Buddha-Teachings-Ma-Tsu-Hung-Chou/dp/0875730221 Reddit Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wu7lml/there_might_not_be_a_self_that_persists_through/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/ze...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary : ... sometimes I feel empathy or moral outrage. How does zen address this? Zen Teaching : Huangbo! https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/dp/0802150926/ Post : https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wukpwz/how_can_i_be_zen_if_others_are_suffering/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted  

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Over the age of thirty, it's better not to study , because it will be hard to learn even if you do, and it will also be of dubious value. If you have taken care of your own business, on the other hand-- that is, the business of the self -- then you will still be able to learn through study, because you have been transform...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Once, Zhaozhou paid a visit to Zhuyu. Upon ascending into the Hall of the Law, Zhuyu said, "Watch out! Arrow!" Zhaozhou replied, "Watch out! Arrow!" Zhuyu said, "Miss!" Zhaozhou said, "Mark!"   Text: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Chan-Buddhist-Classic-ebook/dp/B07RYFN7JM Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  "When Buddha wants you to talk, you talk. When Buddha wants to you say nothing, you open your mouth but words don't come out".    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wqank0/ewks_second_dream/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary: Fanfiction vs History vs Religious Fairy Tales and Truth and Consequences and Nobody Drinking Tea on Air    Link:https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wnqao5/heres_a_take_on_bodhidharma_and_his_sidekick/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  Blind to cause and effect?  Cured by karma?  You decide!  Not really.  I'm writing these for my own amusement.  Was it a celebrity guest fox?  It turns out it was.  Who can you trust these days.    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wlw34m/baizhangs_fox/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  Hengchuan said, "The whole body is food, the whole body is drink. How many drink themselves to death? How many eat themselves to death?" "The method of dwelling in peace has already been explained: we just have to practice it faithfully. As we raise and lower our feet, we naturally do not harm living beings. To protec...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary: This post started because somebody said is the Zen lineage over? How could Enlightenment be over? Churches ordain followers. Zen Masters reluctantly acknowledge equals.    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wbl8rm/the_zen_lineage_is_ongoing_going_beyond/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary: I could not find much of value about either of these beyond a vague definition like "seeing one's true self".   Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wd78yt/i_dont_understand_koan_satori_and_kensho/ Bonus!  Follow up Post! https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wdxkvy/language_barrier_kensho_and_satori_in_chinese/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  Guy thought his church was Zen, believes quitting the church freed him from... church?  Plus Astro complains about me, and we find out maybe I'm not the bad guy we all thought I was.    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wcfg81/zen_freed_me_from_zen_and_everything_else/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  Zhaozhou went to Huangbo Yuanwu interrupting: (Two old outlaws.)    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7d5x7/comment/ihl37fv/