Zen Talking

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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

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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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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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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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y030nf/laymen_and_the_layman/

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Summary:

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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xv03x1/zen_under_the_gun_nanquan_is_not_forgotten/

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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

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xvu532/1000_years_historical_records_from_the_precepts/

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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

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xkrodc/100_zen_questions_level_ground/

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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

Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xntmtq/zen_under_the_gun_daian_about_vegetarianism_and/

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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

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xirodj/haz_enlightenments/

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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

Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xdnw7z/layman_pang_zen_bros/

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