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Summary: The post is a rant about the impurity of society... is there any good guy?  Is big business the big bad?  Is it morally wrong to participate in a free market?  Is all higher education just conformity programming?

Zen Teaching: Laymen Pang, Green trans. https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309

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Speaking to the patrons at the festival, Gulin said, "Nanquan said, 'The whole world in my patron'.

He wasn't fooling you!"

 

Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun

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Bodhidharma Anthology, records from around 550ish

Dharma Master Chih saw Dharma Master Yuan on the street of the butchers and asked, "Do you see the butchers slaughtering the sheep? Dharma master Yuan said, "My eyes are not blind. How could I not see them? Dharma Master chih said, "Master Yuan, you are saying you see it!" Master Yuan waid, "You are seeing it on top of seeing it!"

Dian, Zen Under the Gun, as late as 1400ish

Dian said, "The fruit of the path of enlightenment is is of itself fundamentally perfectly formed. It does not depend on cultivation or action... ...If you reach total comprehension like this... in brothels and wine shops you dwell in peace, trusting to inherent nature, without any distinction between defiled and pure...

 

Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun, Bodhidharma Anthology

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Yuantong’s Question: Practicing mysticism is still going on a steep and difficult path; what is level ground1?

Wansong’s Answer: East, west, south, north.

Linquan’s Instructional Verse:

East, west, south, north- thorns piercing the heavens.

A stone man without legs needn't exert effort.

You still must pass through that double barrier

When free in all ways you finally escape from bondage.

 

Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Thomas-Cleary-ebook/dp/B0893NBY85

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A monk asked, "Mixing without becoming impure - what is that like?"

Joshu said, "I eat only vegetable food; I always adhere to the precepts."

The monk said, "Can one elevate oneself in this way?"

Joshu said, "You would trespass against the law."

Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun: Four generations of Masters 1200-1400 https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Under-Gun-Masters-Turbulent/dp/0861715926

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Yangshan said, "From now on what should be my mode of life?"

Guishan said, "I admire your Dharma Eye; I am not concerned about the practical side of the matter."

 

Zen Teaching: Blyth Zen and Zen Classics on Terebess, Yunmen on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Master-Yunmen-Essential-Sayings/dp/1611805597

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On another day, the Layman asked Ch'i-feng, "Do you know how far it is from here to the top of the peak?"

Ch'i-feng said, "I'm not sure if you can really get there from here."

The Layman said, "If it were so awfully steep and treacherous, I wouldn't have asked about it.""

Ch'i-feng said, "You tell me how far it then."

 

Zen Teaching: Layman Pang! https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309

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Summary: In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bāhiya, there is no you in connection with that. 

Zen Teaching: Huangbo! Again! Blofed tras. via https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/dp/0802150926/

> You must get away from the doctrines of existence and non-existence, for Mind is like the sun, forever in the void, shining spontaneously, shining without intending to shine. This is not something which you can accomplish without effort, but when you reach the point of clinging to nothing whatever, you will be acting as the Buddhas act. This will indeed be acting in accordance with the saying: ‘Develop a mind which rests on no thing whatever

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Despite what trolls, tryhards, wannabes, and outsiders have to say about r/zen, this place is a resource like no other when it comes to the study of Zen. People who are serious waste no time… I can split that four years into three phases. There is the time when I was very ill mentally, leading up to diagnosis and treatment. At the time I was unable to directly confront what the masters were pointing to. My study was purely intellectual.

Zen Teaching: Wumen’s Checkpoint and Yunmen’s Record, aka Ummon Record Sayings

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Foyan said:

"I urge you not to be crude minded. In your conduct, day and night, keep evolving higher; then even if you do not attain enlightenment, you will still be a highly refined individual. Be sure to be attentive"

 

Zen Teaching: Foyan, Cleary trans. - https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Zen-Waking-Up-Present/dp/1556431937

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