Zen Talking

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11jm4xo/to_seek_is_to_deviate/ Post Summary : Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the Way?" Nanquan answered, "Your ordinary mind, that is the Way." Zhaozhou said, "Does it go in any par­ticular direction?'' Nanquan replied, "The more you seek after it, the more it runs away." Zhaozh...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases Post Summary : Cases that frequently address modern misconceptions about Zen. Zen Teaching : Post Cast Overview: Absolutely no Zen background… what about the violence? What about enlightenment? What about... 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/11i4yik/what_did_vimalakirti_say/ Post Summary : This is the 48th case from Wansong's  Book of Serenity , Vimalakirti asked Manjusri, "What is a Bodhisattva's method of entering nonduality?" 
 Manjusri said, "According to my mind, in all things, no speech, no explanation, no direc...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8jssd/can_anyone_explain_wumens_quote/ Post Summary : Wumen's Rule #2:  https://www.reddit.com//r/zen/wiki/warnings Doing what you like in every way is heresy and being among the devil's army. Zen Teaching : Wumen's Checkpoint, aka the Gateless Barrier or Gateless Gate. Post Cast...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11b8tog/nondiscriminatory_discriminating/ Post Summary : You must find the nondiscriminatory mind without departing from the discriminating mind; find that which has no seeing or hearing without departing from seeing and hearing. Zen Teaching : Dahui's Original Shobogenzo, Foyan f...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11behbs/what_zen_master_would_you_most_want_to_meet/ Post Summary : What Zen Master would you want to meet? Zen Teaching : the Zen Canon starting with Get Started Post Cast Overview: Easy question to answer? Some people can't. Thich Hahn. Ikkyu was icky. Who is your first choice?...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/4us6c3/blyths_translation_of_faith_in_mind/ Post Summary : Remaining in movement or quiescence, How shall you know the One? Not thoroughly understanding the unity of the way Both (activity and quiescence) are failures. If you get rid of phenomena, All things are lost; if you follo...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/116v10p/the_revenge_of_zhaozhous_tree/ Post Summary : Master Zhaozhou said, This matter is clearly evident - even immeasurably great people can't get out of here. When I went to Guishan, I saw a monk ask, "What is the meaning of the Chan founder's coming from the West?" Guishan sa...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10sebu9/antimasters/ Post Summary : I was thinking about how to characterize Zen texts by saying the main thing the texts were against. I don't think there's a right answer, but there are answers that aren't really reasonable. Zhaozhou - anti philosophy Huangbo - anti Buddhism Foy...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10xfaeg/zen_under_the_gun_just_the_hits_please/ Post Summary : Daian (1347-1403)   We are at the end, and it's Daian's poetry. He does the traditional thing (unlike Wumen) and includes only one body blow per poem. Here are the blows from three poems, minus the poems:   If not for...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/110vec7/zen_under_the_gun_why_bother/ Post Summary : Daian (1347-1403)   The Natural Real Buddha (A verse to a Buddhist layman:) The true self in every person is the natural real buddha. Through every hour of the day and night it is always emitting light. If you can manage to see...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Pos t: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10wkbwn/a_tree/ Post Summary : A monk asked Zhaozhou, "What is the living meaning of [Zen]?" Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the yard." … don't teach by means of materialism. I'm not. So what is the Zen Master Buddha Dharma? The tree in the front yard.   Zen Teaching : Book o...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10rbpcb/zen_under_the_gun_stainless_study/ Post Summary : In front of the hall of the ancient buddhas, there has never been any other road. In the gate of the ancestral teachers, how could there be many kinds of talk? The Buddha Dharma is not different from the human mind: all inh...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10if4d7/a_garuda_takes_command_of_the_universe/ Post Summary : A monk asked Master Xingyang Pou, "A dragon king comes out of the sea, sky and earth are tranquil—how is direct presentation?" The master said, "The garuda, king of birds, takes command of the universe—who can stick hi...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10gctc2/huineng_dating_advice_personalizing_the_text/ Post Summary : Huineng: "To concentrate the mind on quietness is a disease of the mind, and not Zen at all. What an idea, restricting the body to sitting all the time! That is useless. Listen to my verse: To sit and not lie dow...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10qb691/already_gone/ Post Summary : Later on,‭ when the Master (Yin-feng) arrived at (Guishan's),‭ he put his robe and bowl on the head monk's seat.‭ When Guishan heard that his younger Dharma-brother had come,‭ he formally went to the hall to meet him.‭ When the Master saw him,‭ he...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10dzy9t/zen_under_the_gun_the_great_bell_of_the_zen/ Post Summary : "The Dharma is like a great bell hanging in an arch. Strike it hard and the sound is great, strike it lightly and the sound is slight. It is like a clear mirror on its stand-when a foreigner comes up to it, a fore...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10b4bv4/xiangyans_three_verses/ Post Summary : The XIANGYAN SHOW One strike and all knowledge is forgotten.   No more the mere pretense of practice.   Transformed to uphold the ancient path,   Not sunk in idle devices.   Far and wide, not a trace is left.   The great purpose lies...

  r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/107vxz0/zen_under_the_gun_when_you_meet_people/ Post Summary : Daian said: "In Zen centers everywhere, they speak of Zen and the Way and quote ancient and modern. Dragons and elephants crowd around and the Dharma assemblies are flourishing and full. "Here at Jingshan with one-flavor...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary : Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is t...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary : Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is t...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zxefwk/a_true_man_of_no_rank_changes_the_former_behavior/ Post Summary : Linji said to the assembly, "There is a true man with no rank always going out and in through the portals of your face. Beginners who have not yet witnessed it, look! Look! Zen Teaching :   38th case from Wan...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zz5gls/9_years_is_a_long_time_to_stare_at_a_wall/ Post Summary : Emperor Wu of Liang asked Great Master Bodhidharma, "What is the highest meaning of the holy reality?" Bodhidharma replied, "Vast and void, no holiness." The emperor said, "Who are you in front of me?" Bodhidharma sa...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Christmas eve ewk AMA Post Summary : What's up with ewk? Zen Teaching : Wumen's Checkpoint aka Gateless Gate Post Cast Overview: What's up with the supernatural? Are Zen Masters interested in God? What can we say is true? Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted