Knot Zen

The famous, "wash your bowl" koan. Steve shows up, too.

Just Scott taking on a case.

Our very second Foyan cast. Foyan was much more of a lecturer than the Zen Masters which taught using Cases, and here he outlines the two sicknesses which he sees in the Zen school.

Are you deaf, but wonder how you are going to listen to Knot Zen? Tune in and find out.

After 500 hours of podcasting we finally made it to the Fox Case.

A complicated case in which there's many things to grab on to: cause and effect, rebirth, violence., and if you're lucky, you might regret listening.

What is outstanding action? Here, it's kicking over a water bottle. Although, Mumon says the guy who did that: "could not jump out of the trap".

The gang talks through the case and then debates what it means to instruct and whether the case is an example of instruction or something else.

How do you find a parched pasture, a place where no grass blades?

Do you look outside the "gate", inside the "gate"? What even is grass..no, no, Steve, that's not what they mean...we think.

Join The Gang for a dharma talk about 3 Zen masters mysteriously weighing in on a metaphor presented by the most prominent among them: Dahui!

Our most cujo-esque-ian episode yet ...the puppy returns! Is Mu meditation? What is this "concentration" that Mumon calls for?