Zen Talking

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Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yze4pa/a_few_good_zen_cases/

Post Summary:

A monk asked, "What about it when practice has no end and enquiry has no end?' Zhaozhou said, "Whether there is an end or not, in the eyes of a person of the Way it is like a drop of spit." The monk said, "What is the fact of 'that' [state of mind]?" The master spat on the ground.

Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (Green), Zen Teachings of Huang Po (Blofeld)

Post Cast Overview: What is nothingness? Doubt and Truth. Confidence. Elephants. Transcendental Truth. Spit.

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z0acq9/gaoans_conduct_and_virtue/

Post Summary:

Once when one of the monastery officers refused to make such an expenditure, Gaoan upbraided him, saying, in ancient times the founder of the Chan commune established the treasury for the sake of the aged and infirm. You are not sick and not dead."

People of discernment from all quarters esteemed Gaoan's personal conduct highly. When he retired from Yunju and went to Mount Tiantai, about fifty students followed him. Those who were unable to go wept as they parted with him. This is how much his virtue moved people.

Zen Teaching: Cleary's Zen Lessons

Post Cast Overview: (under construction)

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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yy8akj/you_arent_paying_fing_attention_get_it_together/

Post Summary: Dharma combat isn't combat

"By still depending on teachings, you sicken your mind," said Ch'u.

"But how great is the sickness of the one who talks about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" said Dongshan.

Again Ch'u did not reply. The next day he suddenly passed away. At that time Dongshan came to be known as "one who questions head monks to death."

They call it dharma combat, but it isn't combat at all. When Dongshan questioned that old man to death, it wasn't combat, Dongshan executed that old man. WTF? How could anybody NOT SEE THAT?

Podcast Highlights: (under construction)

Zen Teaching: Dongshan, Soto Patriarch, in Record of Tung-shan, https://www.amazon.com/Record-Tung-Shan-Classics-Asian-Buddhism/dp/0824810708

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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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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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