Zen Talking

Zen Talking

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Zen Talking episodes

  • The Zen Lineage is Ongoing

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

    Summary: This post started because somebody said is the Zen lineage over? How could Enlightenment be over? Churches ordain followers. Zen Masters reluctantly acknowledge equals.

    Link:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wbl8rm/the_zen_lineage_is_ongoing_going_beyond/

    39 min
  • What is a koan? Kensho? Satori?

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

    Summary: I could not find much of value about either of these beyond a vague definition like "seeing one's true self".

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wd78yt/i_dont_understand_koan_satori_and_kensho/

    Bonus! Follow up Post!

    https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wdxkvy/language_barrier_kensho_and_satori_in_chinese/

    38 min
  • Did Zen Save You? Plus Beef!

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

    Summary: Guy thought his church was Zen, believes quitting the church freed him from... church? Plus Astro complains about me, and we find out maybe I'm not the bad guy we all thought I was.

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wcfg81/zen_freed_me_from_zen_and_everything_else/

    39 min
  • Simply Laughable! Zhaozhou v. Huangbo

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

    Summary:

    Zhaozhou went to Huangbo

    Yuanwu interrupting: (Two old outlaws.)

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7d5x7/comment/ihl37fv/

    38 min
  • You say Goodbye?

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

    Summary: ...Except I was not thinking. I was doing everything but. Just now it occurred to me that coming here is nothing but a habit. Should I indulge the habit? Should I put an end to it? Is this goodbye? You tell me.

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7dngs/farewell_perhaps/

    38 min
  • Zen's Other Meditations

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

    Summary: Since we all now know that Zazen meditation is not doctrinally or historically related to Zen, what other forms of meditation or other practices used in zen?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w6bhyx/meditation_and_zen/

    39 min
  • Life is Too Short Not to See People

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

    Summary: Should we cherish or be attached to strangers?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w0njrb/is_life_too_short_to_spend_time_with_people_youll/

    39 min
  • Dead even though Alive

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

    Summary: ""One who has not attained is an old crow in a cloth bag, as if dead even though alive."

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vxrh31/measuring_tap_the_living_and_the_deadthoughalive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

    37 min
  • Devil's Army

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

    Summary: "Was it Huang Bo who said that you should not behave against moral principles even when you walk the Way, or you will become part of the devil's army?"

    What if you believe in innate evil? What if you believe in monsters?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vv9zcj/what_is_there_to_stop_us_from_becoming_part_of/

    38 min
  • Acting Freely - Now with Bonus Wumen!

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

    Summary: Wumen teaches, "Granted you are free, just tell me: Does the sound come to the ear or does the ear go to the sound? If both sound and silence die away, at such a juncture how could you talk of Chán?"

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vtq9gi/acting_freely_and_achieving_an_outcome/

    38 min

About Zen Talking

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Zen is a tradition from India that passed into China. Zen culture is based on the Five Lay Precepts, the Four Statements of Zen, and Zen's only practice: Public Interview, which is where we get Zen koans.