Zen Talking

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

Summary:

Yuanwu said, "A monk asked, "What is the task in the patch robe?" Xianglin said, "Fire burns a mountain in December."

Yunmen said, "The twenty-fifty day of December-look look-the last month is ending."

Xianglin is a son inheriting his father's [Yunmen's] business.

Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Chan-Buddhist-Classic-ebook/dp/B07RYFN7JM/

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wxucan/measuring_tap_sounding_strike_yuanwu_decodes_teh/

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

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

Summary:

Huangbo, via the text Teachings of Huang Po:

32) Once our Master requested a short leave of absence and Nan Shan asked where he was going.

'I'm just off to gather some vegetables.'

'What are you going to cut them with?'

Our Master held up his knife, whereupon Nan Shan remarked: 'Well, that's all right for a guest but not for a host.'

Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/dp/0802150926/

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wwzp9o/guest_and_host_confusing_terms_of_art_in_zen/

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

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

Summary: Is there a self in Zen? If we can't quote Zen Masters, how would we know?

Zen Teaching: Try Mazu! https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Face-Buddha-Teachings-Ma-Tsu-Hung-Chou/dp/0875730221

Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wu7lml/there_might_not_be_a_self_that_persists_through/

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

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

Summary: ...sometimes I feel empathy or moral outrage. How does zen address this?

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

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wukpwz/how_can_i_be_zen_if_others_are_suffering/

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

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

Summary: Over the age of thirty, it's better not to study, because it will be hard to learn even if you do, and it will also be of dubious value. If you have taken care of your own business, on the other hand-- that is, the business of the self -- then you will still be able to learn through study, because you have been transformed. But if you have done with your own business, why would you study? If you are twenty years of age or thereabouts, you can still study, but if you are spiritually sharp and intent on the matter of life and death, you won't study anything else. -Foyan

Text: https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Zen-Waking-Up-Present/dp/1556431937/

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wsfmsq/very_interesting_text_from_foyan_what_is_going_on/

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

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

Summary:

Once, Zhaozhou paid a visit to Zhuyu. Upon ascending into the Hall of the Law, Zhuyu said, "Watch out! Arrow!"

Zhaozhou replied, "Watch out! Arrow!"

Zhuyu said, "Miss!"

Zhaozhou said, "Mark!"

Text: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Chan-Buddhist-Classic-ebook/dp/B07RYFN7JM

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wohy0i/a_case_involving_watching_out_for_an_unreal_arrow/

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

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

Summary: "When Buddha wants you to talk, you talk. When Buddha wants to you say nothing, you open your mouth but words don't come out".

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wqank0/ewks_second_dream/

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

Summary: Fanfiction vs History vs Religious Fairy Tales and Truth and Consequences and Nobody Drinking Tea on Air

Link:https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wnqao5/heres_a_take_on_bodhidharma_and_his_sidekick/

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

Summary: Blind to cause and effect? Cured by karma? You decide! Not really. I'm writing these for my own amusement. Was it a celebrity guest fox? It turns out it was. Who can you trust these days.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wlw34m/baizhangs_fox/

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

Summary:

Hengchuan said, "The whole body is food, the whole body is drink. How many drink themselves to death? How many eat themselves to death?"

"The method of dwelling in peace has already been explained: we just have to practice it faithfully. As we raise and lower our feet, we naturally do not harm living beings. To protect life requires killing the false self; only when this is completely slain can one live in peace. This method too must be practiced faithfully."

Link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wjv07g/zen_under_the_gun_gluttony_false_selves_its_a/

Book in question:

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Under-Gun-Masters-Turbulent/dp/0861715926/