Zen Talking

Zen Talking

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Zen Talking episodes

  • Why are straight pines illusory?

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

    Summary: Zhongfeng said, "The illusory students asked: 'why are pines straight, why are brambles tangled, why are crows black, why are swans white?' Then Zhongfeng said, "Obviously, the light of illusion makes pines straight...

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vsrf2w/why_are_pines_straight_and_brambles_tangled/

    38 min
  • Beyond Dunhuang

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

    Summary: News from behind the wall between the internet and academia

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vn5r4a/scholarship_corner_ch%C3%A1n_buddhism_in_d%C5%ABnhu%C3%A1ng_and/

    40 min
  • What does Zen have to offer?

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

    Summary: Why do I still have doubts and can't fully satisfy my hunger?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vkmq9k/what_is_zen_all_about/

    38 min
  • Guishan's Post-Enlightenment Practice... Flashback

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

    Summary:

    "In essence, the noumenal ground of reality does not admit of a single particle, but the methodology of myriad practices does not abandon anything. If you penetrate directly, then the sense of the ordinary and the sacred disappears, concretely revealing the true constant, where principle and fact are not separate. This is the buddhahood of being-as-is."

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/u6evvs/guishan_on_practice_after_enlightenment/

    38 min
  • Triggered

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

    Summary: Of community conflicts, self reflection, and the high tension wire act of studying Zen.

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vcs0hj/an_object_lesson_in_triggering/

    36 min
  • Word Girl's Candle

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

    Summary: Deshan [duh SHAN] had a candle. Longtan blew it out. Enlightenment happened. What's that about? Who even needs a candle in the country?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vecvzp/gateless_gate_28_ryutans_candle/

    33 min
  • Many Kinds of Zen Sickness

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

    Summary: Zen Masters talk about sickness... how sick are you?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v3apxh/an_introduction_for_zennists_2_zen_sicknesses/

    34 min
  • Post-Enlightenment Literature?

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

    Summary: Is there post-enlightenment literature? Is there any pre-enlightenment literature?

    Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v2wlmj/any_postenlightenment_literature/

    36 min
  • Post: I don't know how to study Zen

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

    Summary: How do you "study" Zen? What is Zen study?

    Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v4vegf/i_dont_know_how_to_study_zen_a_rant/

    37 min
  • Post: Not depending on Letters

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

    Summary: Deleted Post! Why? Follow the clues in this episode.

    Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/v2e0av/zen_not_depending_upon_the_letter/

    32 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.