Zen Talking

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary: ...Except I was not thinking. I was doing everything but. Just now it occurred to me that coming here is nothing but a habit. Should I indulge the habit? Should I put an end to it? Is this goodbye? You tell me.    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7dngs/farewell_perhaps/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Since we all now know that Zazen meditation is not doctrinally or historically related to Zen, what other forms of meditation or other practices used in zen? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w6bhyx/meditation_and_zen/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  Should we cherish or be attached to strangers?    Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w0njrb/is_life_too_short_to_spend_time_with_people_youll/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: ""One who has not attained is an old crow in a cloth bag, as if dead even though alive." Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vxrh31/measuring_tap_the_living_and_the_deadthoughalive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  "Was it Huang Bo who said that you should not behave against moral principles even when you walk the Way, or you will become part of the devil's army?"   What if you believe in innate evil?  What if you believe in monsters? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vv9zcj/what_is_there_to_stop_us_from_becoming_part_of/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Wumen teaches, "Granted you are free, just tell me: Does the sound come to the ear or does the ear go to the sound? If both sound and silence die away, at such a juncture how could you talk of Chán?" Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vtq9gi/acting_freely_and_achieving_an_outcome/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Zhongfeng said, "The illusory students asked: 'why are pines straight, why are brambles tangled, why are crows black, why are swans white?'  Then Zhongfeng said, "Obviously, the light of illusion makes pines straight... Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vsrf2w/why_are_pines_straight_and_brambles_tangled/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  News from behind the wall between the internet and academia Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vn5r4a/scholarship_corner_ch%C3%A1n_buddhism_in_d%C5%ABnhu%C3%A1ng_and/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Why do I still have doubts and can't fully satisfy my hunger?  Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vkmq9k/what_is_zen_all_about/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: "In essence, the noumenal ground of reality does not admit of a single particle, but the methodology of myriad practices does not abandon anything. If you penetrate directly, then the sense of the ordinary and the sacred disappears, concretely revealing the true constant, where principle and fact are not separate. This is...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Of community conflicts, self reflection, and the high tension wire act of studying Zen. Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vcs0hj/an_object_lesson_in_triggering/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Deshan [duh SHAN] had a candle.  Longtan blew it out.  Enlightenment happened.  What's that about?  Who even needs a candle in the country? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vecvzp/gateless_gate_28_ryutans_candle/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Zen Masters talk about sickness... how sick are you? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v3apxh/an_introduction_for_zennists_2_zen_sicknesses/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  Is there post-enlightenment literature?  Is there any pre-enlightenment literature? Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v2wlmj/any_postenlightenment_literature/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary:  How do you "study" Zen?  What is Zen study?    Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v4vegf/i_dont_know_how_to_study_zen_a_rant/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.    Summary: Deleted Post! Why?  Follow the clues in this episode.  Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v2e0av/zen_not_depending_upon_the_letter/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary:  A wide ranging post that starts with Foyan and then quotes almost everybody! Link:  https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uzv6r4/an_introduction_for_zennists_1_instant_zen/

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: Dr. Foyan: Why sitting meditation practice NEVER produces enlightenment and only makes you sicker. https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uuzt0j/dr_foyan_why_sitting_meditation_practice_never/ Title says it all.

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/utjpv5/what_the_fuck_is_going_on/ "I'm very new here, and I've done a little of the recommended reading from this sub. I've enjoyed it thoroughly but I honestly don't f*ing understand it"    

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/tm1r9i/zen_masters_are_lying_to_you/ "Zen masters contradict each other all the time. They even contradict themselves, in the same text! Why is that, haven't you wondered? "  

r/zen is a forum about Zen scholarshiop and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uhtxon/zens_relation_to_beliefs/ "can people who cling benefit from introspection and use their beliefs as a tool?"    

ewk and Alexa talk about the post titled "results of my Zen practice". The intention was to cover three posts, it doesn't look like that can happen in a half hour! https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/tlptcw/results_of_my_zen_practice/