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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yrfop9/can_someone_explain_koans_to_me/

Post Summary: If I am being honest, I am probably trying to achieve some state where I can feel perfectly good all the time or at least live my life 100% fully and appreciate and have a good time. 

Podcast Highlights: Somebody explains something?

Zen Teaching: Koans! Koans are historical records! Not parables! Not fables! Not fictional!

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

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ypt3lf/medicine_buffet/

Post Summary: Part 2, because people can pick whatever they want

Podcast Highlights: What is medicine and disease? Who gets to have a conversation… what historians and translators are up to...

Zen Teaching: same same

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Post summary:

Master Fachang Yu brought up to master Nan the minister Chang’s contemplation of the saying about circumstances of birth.

Fachang said, "Why not put an immediate end for him?"

Nan said, "Legs were drawn for a snake, but he didn’t get a glimpse."

Fachang said, "How did you help him?"

Nan said, "Chewing up raw ginger, drinking up vinegar."

Zen Teaching: Dahui’s The Original Shobogenzo, https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Eye-True-Teaching-Discourses-ebook/dp/B09XTRYT88

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ypt3lf/medicine_buffet/

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Summary: Quotes about Enlightenment

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yjto51/enlightenment_no_doubt_will_remain/

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Summary:

Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu: https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X/

Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yigo49/the_wrong_man_and_the_right_way/

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Summary: What’s a famous one liner you think is Zen? And is it?

Zen Teaching: All of it!  www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ye0aly/favorite_zen_one_liners/

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Summary: Gulin (1262-1329)

Gulin said, "When the particular time arrives, the truth is spontaneously apparent. The sunlight does not wait for a fire to be warm. The moonlight does not wait for the breeze to be cool. The world is one rod wide, the ancient mirror is one rod wide, the stove is one rod wide. "Where the buddha-image is big there is much mud. Where the boats ride high the tide is in."

 

Zen Teaching: Zen Under to Gun, later centuries Zen Masters

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ybz4q1/zen_under_the_gun_that_supernatural_moment/

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Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y9fwc6/looking_for_mendicants_to_live_the_same/

Post Summary:

Passing unnoticed in the world.

We know that Shakya's sons and daughters

Are poor in body, but not in the [Way].

Zen Teaching: BCR?  Cleary?  Yuanwu?  Amazon?  "Read a book!" -Handy and the Human Ton

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y2ox55/im_not_the_good_guy/

Post Summary: 

First, consider these statements... if you think you recognize them, pretend you don't:

1. I like killing

2. I'm not a Buddha

3. Your mother is ugly

4. I don't play children's games.

What kind of person talks like this?

Podcast Highlights:  I haven't heard it yet myself!

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Summary:

Zhaozhou, teaching the assembly, "The Ultimate Path is without difficulty; just avoid picking and choosing. As soon as there are words and speech, 'this is picking and choosing,' 'this is clarity.' This old monk does not abide within clarity; do you still preserve anything or not?"

Once there was a monk who asked, "Since you do not abide in clarity, what is to be preserved?"

Zhaozhou said, "I don't know either."

 

Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu: https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X/

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y1rwtz/for_people_who_are_struggling/

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