Zen Talking

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Reddit Post: (a summary of nothing is nothing)

Post Summary: (there wasn't one)

Zen Teaching: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/gateless-3.htm

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

...this is likely the actual 2, and 1 was mislabeled... but let's roll the dice...

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post:

Post Summary:

Is this Bizhang's fox?

Zen Teaching:

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted and www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/wumenguan

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/16rqz8j/anybody_wanna_race_remembering_the_hanzi/

Post Summary: Learning Chinese?

Zen Teaching: Language as interface?

Post Cast Overview:

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15pybbu/strategic_death_on_how_zen_masters_get_out_of/

Post Summary:

A monk asked Master Dasui Fazhen, "When the kalpa of fire burns through, and the universe is destroyed, I was wondering, will this be destroyed or not?"

The Master said, "Destroyed."

"Let it be."

The monk did not agree.

Zen Teaching: First we've got case 48 in P.E. Stonegather's Baiyun Duan case collection:

Post Cast Overview: Death and stuff! I don't know! It's from the Lost then Found Archives

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/s/zB2q3gVfdP

Post Summary: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/16pim0m/temet_nosce/

Zen Teaching: Not really?

Post Cast Overview: I'm not even going to try

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/15rfjyf/why_are_your_here_or_why_zen_anxiolytics/

Post Summary: Gasdark - I recently made a post asking redditors whether or not they were afraid of their own thoughts. Though a small sample size, of 12 respondents, 9 indicated that, to some degree or another, they were.

The Sixth Patriarch heard a monk quote a verse by Wolun saying, "Wolun has a skill, able to cut off a hundred thoughts; when mind is not aroused in face of objects, enlightenment grows day by day." The patriarch said, "This verse does not clarify the ground of mind; if you practice based on this, it increases bondage." Accordingly he presented a verse saying, "Huineng has no skills, does not cut off a hundred thoughts. Mind is aroused repeatedly in face of objects; how can enlightenment grow?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/16jxea8/no_escape/

Zen Teaching: Huineng and Baizhang

Post Cast Overview: Exercise in empathy? Middle fingers. Fighting with other people who run a script. Why are people suffering? Self injury or self medication. Who/what is ordinary?

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14uiyc0/shit_filth_and_david_foster_wallace/?rdt=54057

Post Summary: Shit sticks, history. Somebody already thought that. Uninventing the wheel.

Zen Teaching: Is this another shit stick one? Check the stick.

Post Cast Overview: Do perspectives matter?

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice.

Reddit Post: None! We're off book!

Post Summary: Preface of the most famous book of Zen instruction in human history.

Zen Teaching: Wumenguan; I recommend the following translations: JC Cleary's Three Chan Classics or Blyth's Mumonkan.

Post Cast Overview: Wumen's preface is snappy.

Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zensangha/wiki/getstarted

TBD. See forum.