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#Post(s) in Question

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# What did we talk about?

How do we test for sincerity in books, conversations, and life? Does it matter?

This problem just gets worse from every angle.

Also a movie recommendation.

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1io3ped/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryone_finger_zen/

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# What did we talk about?

It's not "boy" or "teenager" or "greeter". It's Personal Assitant to a Zen Master.

It's not "arm" or "forearm" or "hand" or even "whole finger".

With these translations we have multiple problems: 1. logistical problem, chopping off with what? gotten where? with what medical emergency? 2. language problem, when does the word for arm-forearm-hand-finger-tip get distinguished in cultures? 3. culture problem, if everyone knows about cutting off a fingertip and everyone knows people who are missing a tip of a finger, why would anybody read it any other way?

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#Post(s) in Question

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# What did we talk about?

Why does it matter what Anwan said?

Did Zen Master Buddha talk too much? What is the point if it's direct experience?

Translation problems and footnotes. Tiliting at convienence stores.

What is art? Does it matter how hard you work or whether it's art?

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1icc8dx/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryshuilao_facing/

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# What did we talk about?

Disagree. Not about ignorance.

Possible wordings:

1. Bodhidharma came from the West to show reverence 2. In that Bodhidharma came, you should show reverence 3. ? Bodhidharma was able to come from the West because he was reverent 4. If you are asking me about Bodhidharma, then you should bow

Showing reverence often takes the form of aggression toward the Zen Master.

Beef: Mazu's kick is or is not a rebuke of Shuilao being ignorant.

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1h0js2q/more_checkpoints/

"How is my hand like the hand of Buddha?"

"How is my leg like the leg of a donkey?"

"Everyone exists by a particular cause of birth."

I'm not even. Don't listen while driving on a freeway or interstate.

I was confused the whole episode.

If you want to know what a thankyou letter from a Zen Master sounds like, that what this Case is about.

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1i69u56/from_the_famous_cases_treasuryzhaozhous_good_thing/

The master was leaving the main hall when he saw a monk bowing to him.

The master struck him with his stick.

The monk said, "But bowing is a good thing'"

The master said. "A good thing is not as good as nothing.

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# What did we talk about?

Disagree! Lots of disagreement.

Why is there ridicule in Zen?

Why is there bowing in Zen? Amnesia!

Is Enlightenment earned? What is non-causal?

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hpmfum/least_popular_questions/

1. Who do you think is enlightened in modern times?
2. What Zen texts have you read?
3. What's your practice/doctrine/text?

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# What did we talk about?

How 1900's culture was particularly disingenuous, is the root of modern anti-intellectualism.

Beginner's Mind - poopoo-ing enlightement, not interested in merit, karma, 8fp... but unashamedly claims Zen and Buddhism.

1900's doesn't have much in the way of skepticism in the culture. Everyone is an expert?

Low affiliation/Low experience-education sub culture, is it it's own subculture?

This "Low-Low" is typified by no big obligation to practice, desire to "share" experience.

Popular and Unpopular is... relative?

What's an outlier? In Zen?

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#Post(s) in Question

Post under discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hkmjir/koans_the_record_of_winners/

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# What did we discuss?

Records of winners?

What is a koan? Which koans matter?

Conversation about what?

What is conversation? Explicitly public vs explicitly private.

Zen goals vs church goals.

Judging people by their own standards not someone else's.

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hinlqv/zhaozhou_avoiding_his_birth_family_intimacy/

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was zhaozhou talking about his family? cousins? he was 70?

was zhaozhou referencing his old teacher?

seeing one time is a big zen theme

net of love is a sex sutra?

who is hakamaya and what's wrong with academia

western buddhist academia as "mostly 1960's" and not "mostly buddhist"

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hb3cec/zen_for_dingbats_wumens_gate_case_7_zhaozhous/

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What does "wash your bowl" mean?

Educated in the record - not the norm in Zen, but the norm everywhere else.

What does the word "everyday" even mean?

Fun with "overly vague" terms

If:then statement as instruction

Triangulating Interpretation: Three Cases by that Master. Three discussions of the Case by other Masters.

Topicalism in Zen and Art History: It doesn't mean that because you feel it does

Is "caring" the same in protestant cultures as it is in Zen communes?

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