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  • 9-8-2024 || Gateless's 46: From atop a 100 foot pole

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fxlg3a/enlightenment_doesnt_make_you_better_at_seeing/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    How to translate the Case, and how the Case, Lecture, and Instructional Verse combine into a coherent teaching.

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    1 hr 20 min
  • 10-6-2024 || AMAs and Mental Health

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1foxz7c/tuesdama_dota2nub_how_zen_helped_me_with_my/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    Cults... doctors... religion... Zen.

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    1 hr 9 min
  • 10-4-2024 || Gateless's Case

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fs2rxj/categories_for_classifying_cases/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    Translation, of course, and other stuff that I can't remember about the Past and Future Buddhas.

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    1 hr 13 min
  • 10-6 || Grading Your Koan Insight with Zen Master Xutang (Case 25)

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fs2rxj/categories_for_classifying_cases/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    Here's an example:

    Which of these is the Xutang [Sew Tang] last line:

    1. Instead of leaving, Xuefeng said XYZ 2. As Xuefeng left, the monk called out XYZ

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    1 hr 2 min
  • 9-29 || Classifying Koans

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fs2rxj/categories_for_classifying_cases/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    How to make the "elevator pitch" for understanding a koan... watch me fail.

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    1 hr 8 min
  • 09-27 || An AMA about mental health, Zen study, and catching up

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: tuesday ama by dota2nub

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    1. Osilation of interest (in Zen): ups and downs,
    2. AMA in the classroom,
    3. What have you been reading ewk?,
    4. Is convo really the core?

    Why do people have interest or get interest? relationships vs needs.

    What we're reading, what we read.

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    1 hr 12 min
  • 9-25-2024 || Gateless's 44: Bajiao's Staff

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post:

    Link to episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fjwoh8/are_you_clinging_or_ignoring/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    translation questions

    why this isn't the previous case

    why it's hard to talk about zen: not interested in zen, zen masters are jerks, and the appaling lack of education (see also: Titian)

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    54 min
  • 9-23-2024 || Case 43. The Bamboo Whip

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1fjwoh8/are_you_clinging_or_ignoring/

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    monks with no hair don't need combs, chinese farmers who don't need catholic church relics cat-o-nine-tails made of bamboo, BDSM Romeo has a problem... what is love? baby don't book report me... rational arugment vs emotional appeal - teaching and explaining love of zen cheese in france vs america, fury at religion and philsophy and the Zen revenge

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    1 hr 25 min
  • 9-17-2024 || Gateless' 42 - Woman comes out of enlightenment

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post:

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    Translation, mostly... like "what is mediation"?

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    1 hr 13 min
  • 9-16-2024 || What's Enlightenment Like?

    #Post(s) in Question

    Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/hJOgFRdO2T

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    #What did we end up talking about?

    Why the confidence? How are all the answer so easy? Are they all geniuses? What if it's math?

    Why is it baffling? DIstance from the tradition?

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    52 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.