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/

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"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"

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12am04b/inherent_buddha_water_buffalo_and_seeking/

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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 nicely. Now it has turned into a white ox on open ground, always present, standing out all day long, not going away even if chased.

Zen Teaching:  Case 595 of the Dahui Shobogenzo

Post Cast Overview: What Buddhas know, why ask a buddha, what not to do, lists of complaints, human speech, different mental worlds, experiments in psychology, creatine

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/123b0g4/zen_rejects_buddhism_how_the_4sofz_are/

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Four Statements of Zen

1. The separate transmission outside the teachings,
2. Not based on words,
3. Points directly at the human mind—
4. You see your nature and become a buddha

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/126ai60/a_discussion_on_zazen/

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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/wiki/notmeditation, where Zen Masters’ rejections of meditation are cataloged. Or www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/secular_dogen, where the fraudulent history of Dogen’s religion is discussed along with Dogen lying about Rujing.

Post Cast Overview: Where did Zazen come from? Why can’t Zazen people talk about their bible, catechism, history, scandals? What does it mean to not be able to answer questions about your faith when you parade your faith out in public?

The 464th case from Dahui’s *Treasury* (aka Dahui’s Shobogenzo), Master Tianyi Huai said to an assembly, An ancient said, "A single space on the mountain of five clusters; we go out and in the same door without meeting each other. For countless ages dwelling in a rented house, after all we never know the landlord." An old adept brought his up and said, "Since we don't know him, who do we ask to rent to begin with? Bringing it up this way is still far off. Why? You should know that on the road of the dead there is a place for the living to emerge; on the road of the living the dead are innumerable. Which is the innumerable dead on the road of the living, and which is the place for the living to emerge on the road of the dead? If you can find out, you remove your greasy headgear and shed your stinking shirt. Dahui said, "The ancient Buddha Tianyi is indeed fine, but not yet good. Let patchrobed monks with eyes try to distinguish."

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/

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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

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For philosophy buffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes

Self versus comb, How do you know if I speak French? Scripts. Dying.

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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

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"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 monk's hall and shouted, "Help, fire! Help, fire!"

Everyone rushed back to the monk's hall, but the master had closed and barred the door. No one knew what to do. Finally, Nan- ch'uan (Nansen) took the key from its hook and threw it into the room through the window.

Note: Temple doors have an exterior padlock for when nobody is inside, and an interior bar for when everybody is.

Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

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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

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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 poisons appear and disappear like bubble

Zen Teaching: Song on Attesting to Enlightenment… by somebody?

Post Cast Overview: No idea. I wasn’t there.

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Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11u9jkf/measuring_tap_49_part_1_it_isnt_going_to_get_any/

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(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 say?) He put a dot in the center. (Yangshan: He can't hold still.) When the National Teacher heard this mentioned, he said, "Jingshan was still confused by Master Ma." (Yangshan: This is a spirit recognizing a spirit, a thief recognizing a thief.)

Zen Teaching: Measuring Tap, by Zen Master Yuanwu

Post Cast Overview: Today's Podcast with Astroemi, KoanComentator, and Histoic,

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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: What is the history of these two characters? What does a foreigner look like? How does a Buddha look? Ambiguity. Foreigners.

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/11v03po/translating_dahui_shobogenzo_case_512/

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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 Overview: Why throw a comb down the stairs? what is a comb? What’s combing? What’s Chinese?  How to break a comb?  Does a comb still comb and thus be a comb if you break it?

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