Zen Talking

TBD.

See forum.

TBD. See forum.

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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1699v0z/zens_big_questions/

Post Summary: Can you identify famous examples of Zen Masters asking Big Questions?

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

Post Cast Overview: Zen Masters ask and answer big questions… and big questions can make people uncomfortable… but that discomfort turns to censorship and lying on social media in the blink of an eye.

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/15sjq0w/weekly_dose_of_serenity_case_63/

Post Summary: Zhaozhou asked Touzi, "When someone who has undergone the great death then returns to life, how is it?"

Touzi said, "He can't go by night--he should arrive in daylight."

Zen Teaching: Yuanwu's book of Zen instruction Book of Serenity, Cleary translator

Post Cast Overview: What should we talk about? Why are those masters flowers, but those other masters are jewels/gold? What is a boat with no bottom?

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/15qfes6/snatched_away_by_sense_objects/

Zen Teaching: Often people of sharp faculties and superior intellect get it without expending a lot of effort. They subsequently produce easy-going thoughts and do not engage in practice. In any case, they are snatched away by sense objects right in front of them and cannot act as a master subject. Days and months pass, and they wander about without coming back. Their Dao power cannot win out over the power of karma, and the Evil One gets his opportunity... - Dahu

Post Cast Overview: practice (daily or otherwise), archery, mindfulness,

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/14kisif/foyan_the_presence_of_the_body_and_mind

Post Summary:

Your body is not there, yet not nothing. It's presence is the presence of the body in the mind; so it has never been there. Its nothingness is the absence of the body in the mind; so it has never been nothing.

Do you understand? If you go on to talk of mind, it too is neither something nor nothing; ultimately it is not you. The idea of something originally there now being absent, and the idea of something originally not there now being present, are views of nihilism and and eternalism.

Zen Teaching:

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14ffn30/what_you_see_and_i_dont/

Post Summary:

The monk asks: 'When the master meditates does he see or not?' The master whacks the monk on the head three times and asks: 'When I hit you just then, did it hurt or not?' The monk replied 'It hurt and it didn't' The master then said 'Well then, I see and don't see'

Zen Teaching: Platform Sutra of Huineng

Post Cast Overview: Fault vs Errors, Translation of 4SZ, Finger pointing, Nothing Seen, Fear?

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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13tph3w/baiyun_duan_81_the_boy_who_attends_to_the_lamps/

Post Summary:

Master Baoen Xuanze asked Qingfeng, "What is this student's self?"

Qingfeng said, "The boy who attends to the lamps has come seeking fire," after which Baoen announced he had seen the Dharma.

Zen Teaching:https://terebess.hu/zen/baiyun.html I think.

Post Cast Overview: Who is the boy? Seeking fire. Responsibility. Then I forgot to take notes.

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

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

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/15cvsvu/tossing_a_snake_into_the_fire/

Post Summary: In the process of burning a clearing in the mountains, Master Dasui saw a snake; tossing it into the fire with his staff, he clucked his tongue and said, "You still won't give up this physical body on your own; for you to die here will be like finding a lamp in the dark."

Zen Teaching: Dahui's Shobogenzo, published under the title Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching.

Post Cast Overview: Audience is who? Literal vs metaphorical levels. Snakes don't speak English. Not buying it. Stone lions and wood buddhas. Why does it seem so hard to understand Zen Masters?

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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/149gpdt/self_and_things/

Post Summary:

Time and again I see longtime Zen students who have been freezing their spirits and letting their perception settle out and clarify for a long time. Though they have entered the Way, they immediately accepted a single device or a single state, and now they rigidly hold to it and won't allow it to be stripped away. This is truly a serious disease.

Zen Teaching: Questionably authentic letters of Yuanwu.

Post Cast Overview: What is great rest. What people get confused about. Enlightenment revolving door. Backgrounds of Masters.

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