Zen Talking: Mexican Ingeniousness
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Read the History, Talk the History - Ep #291 #Post(s) in Question ###Post: ###Link to episode: ? ###Link to all episodes: # What did we talk about? MacGyver, Red Green Show, Belgian Solutions... people from anywhere can fix things! Poverty and Zen are tied together, but also separated by education. Temporary teachings. Toilet paper: not for a temple, not for showing people, not for holding on to. # Keep in Touch Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or you agree to be interviewed. We are now using libsyn, so you don't even have to show your face....
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Zen Talking: Knowledge and Habit Energies
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Zen Talking: Sangha for Everybody?
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Read the History, Talk the History, #Episode: 289 #Post(s) in Question ###Post: ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Complete this yourself. # Keep in Touch Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or you agree to be interviewed. We are now using libsyn, so you don't even have to show your face. You just get a link to an audio call. Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen
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Zen Talking - Sangha, Fear, Mental Health, Ignorance
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Read the History, Talk the History, #288 #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1p6gkae/zen_talking_poverty/ (that's right, a podcast about a podcast episode) ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Barriers in Zen? Interest in...
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Zen Talking: Why so famous? r/Zen's most controversial reference
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Aggressiveness bad in the modern world. Virtue essential to Christianity, Buddhism, Zazen, Yoga, etc. Who is "good"?...
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Zen Talking: Linji Teaching... but What is he talking about?
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Read the History, Talk the History #286 #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1p5gwt7/from_the_dms_linjis_never_been/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? What are the three vehicles? How about "obedience, compassion, and esoteric...
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Zen Talking: Nanquan Reincarnated as Bull
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Post(s) in Question Ep. 285 Post: ? Link to all episodes: What did we talk about? Multiple level of meanings of Zen koans * Zen Master traditional challenge questions: What are you doing? What is that? * Material world level, metaphorical level, Zen doctrine level Explaining the meaning of the Zen Bull: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/bull Why the 5 Zen bulls are NOT NOT NOT the 10 Buddhist Bulls: The invisible Bull Nanquan [Cleary: Nahn-chwen] comparing himself to a bull in other cases. Zhaozhou gets called "you animal", and that means Nanquan sees him as a fellow...
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Zen Talking: That's no moon... that's Silent Illumination!
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1olllu9/moon_face_zen_master/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ojb7tp/silent_illumination_exposed/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Virtual...
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Zen Talking: Foyan's Facing It Directly... Facing What?
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ot5j59/foyan_qingyuan_facing_it_directly_dont_miss_whats/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Entering from the East isn't going to work because it's relative....
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Zen Talking: Nanquan breaks the precepts
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Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ls8bau/treasury_492_dont_misconceive/
'Muslin Robe' Zhao one night pointed to the half moon and asked elder Pu, "Where has the other part gone?" Pu said, "Don't misconceive." Zhao said, "You've lost a piece." Dahui said, "He gets up by himself and falls down by himself."
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# What did we talk about?
When is it not a metaphor?
When you can't see the moon?
Is what you can't see still there?
Two halves to the moon, the "two" of knowing and not knowing".
Cases mentioned:
1. Guichen asked, “Where are you going?” Fayan replied, “On an ongoing pilgrimage.” Guichen said, “Why do you go on a pilgrimage?”
Fayan replied, “I don’t know.” Guichen said, “Not knowing is most intimate.” At these words Fayan instantly experienced enlightenment.
2. One day Master Yunmen brought up this story about one of his teachers:
“A monk once asked Master Yuezhou Qianfeng, 'The honored ones of the ten directions all had a single gateway to ultimate liberation. Where is this gateway?' Then Master Yuezhou drew a line in the ground with his staff and said, 'Here.'”
Master Yunmen then held up his fan and offered this comment: “This fan jumps to the uppermost heaven and hits the god Indra; when it strikes the carp of the Eastern Sea, the rain pours down in torrents. Do you understand?”
# Keep in Touch
Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or you agree to be interviewed. We are now using libsyn, so you don't even have to show your face. You just get a link to an audio call. Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen