Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Nothing Lacking
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ou8o2m/from_the_open_thread_not_lacking/? ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What...
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Zen Talking: Moon Face Buddha - Social Media and Mental Health
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Social media... rZen... health... Zen has always been "social media" in it's history 95 Theses and Periodic table of the Elements as...
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Zen Talking: Bodhidharma's Mind and Anxiety Pacification
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Read the History, Talk the History #Post(s) in Question ###Post: ###Link to all episodes:...
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Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Bright or Dark
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Zen Talking - Eating Grass: Reincarnated Almsgiver's Ox
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#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1o6d09y/lonely_footnote_60_feeding_grass/ ###Link to episode: Alms Giver's Ox, Tribeless Men, and the Loneliness Epidemic ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? THE MALE LONELINESS EPIDEMIC IS ROOTED IN NOT HAVING A "TRIBE" IN BOOKS Knowing: Blurt vs know-where-to-search vs believe it must be "somewhere". Five Ox herding Zen pictures IS NOT NOT NOT the Buddhist 10 bulls. New word! Oxbullcow. Is the "white bull" = Zen bull #5 ? Oxbullcow Cases by type: 1. Zen Masters...
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Zen Talking: Zen's Traditional Violence... which goes a little off topic
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#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1nwytsk/i_choose_violence_zen_study_in_a_violent_tradition/ ###Link to episode: ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Cancel Culture as violence. Zen Cancel Culture via Xiangyang. Physical violence. Psychological violence. Political speech, political violence. And some nerd segues into Asian desserts, Asian studies funding, the monkey in Edgar Allen Poe, the 49th Case. # Keep in Touch Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get...
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Zen Talking: How hard are koans?
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#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1n9p3s9/some_zen_koans_can_be_incredibly_absurd_but_how/ ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Theory of study: If you can't read French, then of course French confuses you. If confusing yourself is your religion, you still can't claim that the French intended to confuse you by using French language. Specific translations questions. How the Case makes total sense if you translate it correctly. # Keep in Touch Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody...
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Zen Talking: Belly for Zen
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#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1mgiv6r/building_a_single_belly_for_zen/ The Illusory Man by Zhonfeng Mingben 12. Enter The Gate Abruptly Understand that the Great Illusory Dharma Gate is right at the soles of your feet and has never moved a single hair. You just need for your delusions to be snuffed out, for your point of view to end. When you take a false step and trample on your attachments, then you'll know that Taiyuan heard a gong at the same moment Dongshan crossed the river, and there will be no separation between us. When you get here to the...
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Zen Talking: Xuefeng's Grain of Rice
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#Post(s) in Question ###Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/askZen/comments/1mg51jw/making_sense_of_the_bcr_case_5_xuefengs_grain_of/ Xuefeng said to his group, (One blind man leading a crowd of the blind. It's not beyond him.) . "Pick up the whole world, and it;s as big as a grain of rice." (What technique is this> I myself have never sported devil eyes.) ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Reading this case from two viewpoints: original audience and modern audience. Two entirely different contexts with different...
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Zen Talking: Zen and Buddhism
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#Post(s) in Question ### Post: There wasn't a post! ###Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # What did we talk about? Despite connection problems and mic quality, an interesting conversation with someone who knocked on some doors and has thoughts about that. I didn't edit the longest part because of integrity! No? It's because low production value is our brand! Not really? Okay, then... because it takes too long and I'm busy? # Keep in Touch Add a comment if there is a post you want somebody to get interviewed about, or you...
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'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?”
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