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Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13th9am/zens_dharma_interviews_a_test_we_can_all_agree_on/

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Accordingly, the Master said, "I don't inquire about the realm of the Buddha or the realm of the Path; rather, what kind of person is he who talks thus about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" When, after a long time, Ch'u had not responded, the Master said, "Why don't you answer more quickly?"

Zen Teaching: Dongshan’s record, Recorded Sayings of Tung-shan, also www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases

Post Cast Overview: Rules of game. He’s dead, Jim. Why the old monk died. Shame. Ewk makes up a fake church. What rules exactly? Intelligible verse reasonable.

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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 Way?

Zen Teaching: Record of Nanquan

Post Cast Overview: Yajñadatta lost his head. Crazy from the outside. History of glass. Nanquan vs Mazu. Nanquan takes a road trip. Relying on the sayings of others. What is understanding? Reading? Internalizing? What is being yourself? Social media, what is it. Fox News as social media, not professionalism. Professionalism or entertainment as a choice of perspectives.

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/133u9q3/huangbo_the_self_and_perceptions/

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 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)

Post Cast Overview: six senses, sunny days, perspective, moving in and out without losing, no mind outside of Buddha, r/zen, im a teacher

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/132fq1r/bos_case_10_the_women_of_taishan_wtf_old_lady/

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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 a whole lifetime, you don't even know where you're going.) the woman would say, "Right straight on."(This is not yet quite good-hearted.) As soon as the monk would go,(having run into a thief without realizing it.) the woman would say, "A fine priest--he goes that way too." (you're already a swindler.) A monk told Zhaozhou about this; (When people are even, they don't talk.) Zhaozhou said, "Wait till I check out that woman for you. (When water is level it doesn't flow.)" Zhaozhou also asked the woman the same question. (A trap to fell a tiger.) The next day he went up in the hall and said, "I have checked out the woman for you."(I'm an even bigger swindler.)

Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu, Green’s translation of Zhaozhou’s record.

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Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12vjwjw/a_man_whose_head_is_on_fire/

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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 of Zhaozhou, Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu

Post Cast Overview: Effectiveness, Precepts. Alcohol works. Urgency. Zen conversation. Agreeing on context.

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Reddit Post: Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12sfpyz/what_do_i_do_now_that_im_originally_a_buddha/

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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 able to find it. This is why Hsueh Tou said, "When the bright mirrors are on their stands, the range of images differs." Instead you must "All face south and see the northern dip­per." When you're facing south why are you nevertheless to look at the northern dipper?

Zen Teaching: Blue Cliff Record

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12fpy5e/thwarting_the_grind/

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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 studying in some way 24/7 then I'm wasting time. It's actually gotten to the point where there can be a week at a time when I don't pursue my usual leisure activities at all when I have time and instead force myself to grind out more cases in whatever book I'm reading on Zen

Zen Teaching: Foyan in Instant Zen, among others.

Post Cast Overview: Attainment on a timetable. Practical application of study. How to study. Different kinds of study. When Foyan (or anyBuddha) is in the next room. Self and change. Living well. Death. Jogging with Zen Masters.

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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?" Yunju came forward and said, "I am going to the Monk's Hall."

Zen Teaching:

Post Cast Overview: What are they talking about? Why is this an answer? What’s a Buddha to do?

https://www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/ewk/4pillarszen/#wiki_2nd_pillar_.2013_chih.2019s_nothing_seen

A monk asked Chih of Yun-chu of the eighth century, 'What is meant by seeing into one's Self-nature and becoming a Buddha?'

Chih: 'This Nature is from the first pure and undefiled, serene and undisturbed. It belongs to no categories of duality such as being and non-being, pure and defiled, long and short, taking-in and giving-up; the Body remains in its suchness. To have a clear insight into this is to see into one's Self-nature. Self-nature is the Buddha, and the Buddha is Self-nature. Therefore, seeing into one's Self-nature is becoming the Buddha.'

Monk: 'If Self-nature is pure, and belongs to no categories of duality such as being and non-being, etc., where does this seeing take place ? '

Chih: 'There is a seeing, but nothing seen.'

Monk: 'If there is nothing seen, how can we say that there is any seeing at all?'

Chih: 'In fact there is no trace of seeing.'

Monk: 'In such a seeing, whose seeing is it?'

Chih: 'There is no seer, either.'

Monk: 'Where do we ultimately come to?'

Chih: 'Do you know that it is because of erroneous discrimination that one conceives of a being, and hence the separation of subject and object. This is known as a confused view. For in accordance with this view one is involved in complexities and falls into the path of birth and death. Those with a clearer insight are not like this one. Seeing may go on all day, and yet there is nothing seen by them. You may seek for traces of seeing in them, but nothing, either of the Body or of the Use, is discoverable here. The duality of subject and object is gone—which is called the seeing into Self-nature.'

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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 able to find it. This is why Hsueh Tou said, "When the bright mirrors are on their stands, the range of images differs." Instead you must "All face south and see the northern dip­per." When you're facing south why are you nevertheless to look at the northern dipper?

Zen Teaching:  Yuanwu's first book of instruction, translated by Cleary, Blue Cliff Record.  Other translations are not reliable.

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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. Only realize that, though real Mind is expressed in these perceptions, it neither forms part of them nor is separate from them. You should not start REASONING from these perceptions, nor allow them to give rise to conceptual thought; yet nor should you seek the One Mind apart from them or abandon them in your pursuit of the Dharma. Do not keep them nor abandon them nor dwell in them nor cleave to them.'

Zen Teaching:

Huangbo's record, published by the famous Blofeld as Zen Teaching of Huang-Po

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