Zen Talking

#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? How to make the "elevator pitch" for understanding a koan... watch me fail.   #You can be on the podcast! Use a p...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  tuesday ama by dota2nub 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? Osilation of interest (in Zen): ups and downs,   AMA in the classroom, What have you been reading ewk?,  Is convo really the core? Why do people have interest or get inter...

#Post(s) in Question Post:   Link to episode:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fjwoh8/are_you_clinging_or_ignoring/   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 questions why this isn't the previous case why it's hard to talk about zen: not in...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fjwoh8/are_you_clinging_or_ignoring/ 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? monks with no hair don't need combs, chinese farmers who don't need catholic church relics cat-o-nine-tails made of b...

#Post(s) in Question Post:     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, mostly... like "what is mediation"?   #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/hJOgFRdO2T   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 the confidence? How are all the answer so easy? Are they all geniuses? What if it's math? Why is it baffling?  DIstance from the tradition?   #Yo...

#Post(s) in Question Post:   https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ffo17e/what_is_conversation_the_record_of_tungshan_85/     One time the Master said, "If you would experience that which transcends even the Buddha, you must first be capable of a bit of conversation." At times, the Master said, "Only when you comprehend the matter beyond the Buddha can you have a share in words and speech." The m...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fbby2c/postoftheweek_podcast_gatelesss_41_free_ur_mind/ 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 the first time we've done a podcast about the podcast... that's meta.   The whole thing is...

#Post(s) in Question Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1f3mbn5/bodhidharma_helps_everybody_out/ 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? Mostly the translation... but we missed questions about the verse.   Forty-one: Bod...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fba4h5/jinniu_breaks_into_a_dance_blue_cliff_record_74/   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? the Case: "Every day at the midday meal, Master Jinniu personally manned...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1f4aquf/29_xuefengs_feathers_and_wings_new_aiassisted/ 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? Koan aka Case in plain English: 1.  Xuefeng kocks on door of Teacher Wushi  2.  Wushi asks who is it?...

#Post(s) in Question   Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ewdwyv/overthrowing_buddhas_teaching/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # ewk translation   Master Guishan,  initially joined the assembly at Baizhang [Mountain, under Master Baizhang].  Baizhang, intending to choose the master for the great [temple at] Guishan [Mountain], then invited the head seat to address...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1eqbs65/monday_motivation_welcome_to_reality/   Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831   Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen   #You can be on the podcast! Use a pseudonym! Nobody cares! Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or y...

#Post(s) in Question   Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1enf7je/dont_trust_anybody_on_whatll_get_you_there/   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 questions and popular errors, the one coin two sides problem.   #You can be on the...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ekmfjr/monday_motivation_no_explain/   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? Foyan: People who can't explain have problems... they live in a fog of darkness. Religion in education Buddhists on...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ehq0kj/why_sutras_are_not_zen/ 三十八 牛過窗櫺 Thirty-eight: The Buffalo Passes Through the Lattice 五祖曰。譬如水牯牛過窗櫺。頭角四蹄都過了。因甚麼。尾巴過不得。 The Wuzu said, "Consider a water buffalo passing through a window latticed frame 1 . Its head, horns, and four hooves have all passed through. Why then can't the tail pas...

#Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ecn2kw/zen_irl_if_you_cant_win_an_argument_you_arent/ 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? Is ignorance why people lose arguments?  If you don't like broccoli, is that really ignorance? Types...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1eby2r6/if_words_confuse_you_that_means_you_cant_pass/ 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? "Because he was asked" is a historical record Zhaozhou says "no particular intention" so why did Bod...

#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e8nefm/if_you_cant_do_what_zen_masters_do_you_are_not_a/ 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? People who complain about zen masters being the boss of zen translation problems: shut them up BY...

Post(s) in Question  Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e81i66/why_is_the_forum_called_zen_and_not_chan/ 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? 1. Buddhism: 8FP religions - mostly based on myths.  Many texts are only presevered in Chinese translations....

Post(s) in Question Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e6azfb/so_many_questions_about_how_this_case_is/ 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 questions Ghosts vs spirits vs east vs west vs ufos when you explain yourself who are you now ve...

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e3shwu/zen_has_no_private_understanding/ Context of Mazu, Case 27, 33, and the Case of Zhaozhou's enlightenment ewk confused, but it gets resolved Problems with meaning of "wisdom": Catholics/Buddhists say wisdom is "right thinking". new agers think wisdom is supernatural knowledge through emotion (topicalism) Zen and Philosophy (especially Natural Phil...

  Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e0k1t7/zen_doesnt_have_a_fixed_doctrine/ This Case involves four contexts: 1. Full mazu case 2. plumb mountain case 3.  nanquan teaching not given 4. wumen partial case, discussion of giving only part as sufficent With that in mind:  Restatement wumen: here is the middle part of a famous koan, and you only need to understand this one piece to know the...

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1dxf89u/gradual_practice_is_not_the_way/   Discussed? Zen master buddha versus 8fp buddha Ssking about zen business as a non-zen student Dharma throne, zen chair, the only furniture in the room Horses aren't afraid of whips Why do we have to answer quickly in Zen? Why is it dangerous to only get one question?