Zen Talking

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13u4qg3/dont_lose_your_head_34/ Post Summary : Nanquan has never been translated before! Now on Reddit! 汝心若是。 If your Mind is, 佛亦何用。 what use is Buddha, also? 非他有無形相。 It is not that [one or] the other 'has' or 'doesn't have' form. 以何是道。 With which is the Wa...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/133u9q3/huangbo_the_self_and_perceptions/ Post Summary :  Huangbo: It is that which you see before you—begin to reason about it and you at once fall into error. It is like the boundless void which cannot be fathomed or measured. Zen Teaching : Zen Teaching of Huang Po (Huangbo) Po...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/132fq1r/bos_case_10_the_women_of_taishan_wtf_old_lady/ Post Summary : Case: On the road to Taishan there lived a certain woman. (A rabbit on the road between the neighboring city and the farmhouses.) Wherever a monk asked her, "Which way does the road to Taishan go?"(Traveling for...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12vjwjw/a_man_whose_head_is_on_fire/ Post Summary : A monk asked, "Asking for help like a man whose head is on fire - what is that like?" Joshu said, "Be like him." The monk asked, "In what way?" Joshu said, "Do not put yourself in his place." Zen Teaching : Green's translation...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12sfpyz/what_do_i_do_now_that_im_originally_a_buddha/ Post Summary : You people, each of you has an ancient mirror. All the myriad forms-long, short, square, round-each and every one appears in it. If you go to the longness or shortness to under­stand, in the end you'll neve...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12fpy5e/thwarting_the_grind/ Post Summary : I'm at an age where I'm certainly not  old , but old enough that the reality of how limited our time on earth can be has really set in. Especially this year. This has led to stress when it comes to Zen study. I feel like if I'm not study...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12c0d8k/yunju_is_going_to_the_monks_hall/ Post Summary : Dongshan went up to the hall and said,  "There is a person who, in the midst of a thousand or even ten thousand people, neither turns his back on nor faces a single person. Now you tell me, what face does this person have?"...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12sfpyz/what_do_i_do_now_that_im_originally_a_buddha/ Post Summary : You people, each of you has an ancient mirror. All the myriad forms-long, short, square, round-each and every one appears in it. If you go to the longness or shortness to under­stand, in the end you'll never be...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:   https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12pobhv/the_relationship_between_selfnature_and_the/ Post Summary : Therefore, if you students of the Way seek to progress through seeing, hearing, feeling and knowing, when you are deprived of your perceptions, your way to Mind will be cut off and you will find nowhere to enter...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11p4a0q/is_there_a_difference_between_being_enlightened/ Post Summary :  "It is very hard to find one good Ch'an (Zen) man among you". Zen Teaching : Foyan's text published under the title "Instant Zen" 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/12am04b/inherent_buddha_water_buffalo_and_seeking/ Post Summary:  I've just watched over a water buffalo: if it went off the path into the weeds, then I pulled it out; if it invaded people's plantings, then I disciplined it with a whip. Eventually it came to accept human speech ni...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/123b0g4/zen_rejects_buddhism_how_the_4sofz_are/ Post Summary : Four Statements of Zen The separate transmission outside the teachings, Not based on words, Points directly at the human mind— You see your nature and become a buddha

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/126ai60/a_discussion_on_zazen/ Post Summary : People refuse to answer questions about Zazen, refuse to quote the text that invented Zazen, refuse to address Zazen sex scandals, and then refuse to quote Zen Masters. Basically it's Zazen as usual. Zen Teaching : www.reddit.com/r/zen...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/ Post Summary : One day the monk Nian asked Sheng "To call it a bamboo comb is to stir up feelings. To not call it a bamboo comb is to turn away. Combine the two and you will be finished." Zen Teaching : Dahui's Shobogenzo Post Cast Ov...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/122p9h1/what_does_this_point_towards/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 Post Summary : "Once the master was in charge of keeping the fires at the monastery. One day, while everyone was out tending the garden, the master went inside the mo...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11ztod1/song_of_attesting_to_enlightenment_verse_2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Post Summary : When awakened to the Dharmakaya there is no thing; The source of intrinsic nature is the true Buddha. The five aggregates4 come and go like clouds in the sky, The three p...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11u9jkf/measuring_tap_49_part_1_it_isnt_going_to_get_any/ Post Summary : (49) Jingshan's dot Great Master Ma had Zhizang take a letter to Jingshan. (Yangshan: I don't know what news is in the letter.) Jingshan took the letter, opened it, and saw a circle. (Yangshan: What does it s...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11wc3tk/zazen_dogenism_is_inherently_racist_is_zen/ Post Summary : Dogen and Bodhidharma have some parallels, despite Zazen Dogenism being entirely incompatible. Zen Teaching : Blue Cliff Record? Maybe? Gateless Checkpoint? Post Cast Overview: W hat is the history of these two cha...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/ Post Summary : One day the monk Nian asked Sheng "To call it a bamboo comb is to stir up feelings. To not call it a bamboo comb is to turn away. Combine the two and you will be finished." Zen Teaching : Dahui's Shobogenzo Post Cast Ov...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11j3asa/everybodys_enlightened_how_come_nobodys_meditating/ Post Summary : r/Zen religious troll claims "Zen Masters want you not to reject anything"… quotes Zen Master rejecting something as proof: All the above have things they consider important where their infatuations lie....

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11rk5au/measuring_tap_displaying_the_sun_and_moon/ Post Summary : 47, Zhimen's straw sandals A monk asked Zhimen, "What is Buddha?" (Better ask about a piece of dry crap.) Zhimen said, "Wearing out straw sandals, walking barefoot." (This is trailing mud and water.) The monk aske...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11qy7tr/buddhahood/ Post Summary : What is original Buddhahood? That's the whole post. Zen Teaching : All over the place Post Cast Overview: What's self? What is identity? Who gets to say? Doctrine v/s Observation. Observing self is observing what, exactly? Identity, culture, gend...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11rbrdc/what_enlightenment_is_really_like/ Post Summary : Mingben said, "What it's really like is Xiangyan hearing a stone strike a hollow stalk of bamboo; Zen Teaching :  Mingben's Illusionary Man!  First translated on r/Zen! Post Cast Overview:  It's three people.  I'm in the...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: /r/zen/the_hidden_treasure Post Summary :  The Great Master Yunmen said,  "All across heaven and earth and throughout the entire universe, there is a treasure at the center of it all, hidden, within it's own body. It raises aloft a lantern toward the Buddha within the Hall and places the three gates onto the top of th...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Post Summary : Zen is not tolerant and peaceful. There are a number of enemies that Zen Masters are eager to challenge: Fakers who aren't enlightened but want people to think they are Dongshan questions the head monk to death 2.People who practice a religion of ideas instead of personal experience Elder Ting on the Br...