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Zen Talking09-27 || An AMA about mental health, Zen study, and catching up#Post(s) in Question Post: tuesday ama by dota2nub Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 Buymeacoffee, so I'm not accused of going it alone:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ewkrzen #What did we end up talking about? Osilation of interest (in Zen): ups and downs, AMA in the classroom, What have you been reading ewk?, 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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Zen Talking8-26-2024 || Gateless's 40: Baizhang, Guishan, and the Purified Bottle#Post(s) in Question Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1ewdwyv/overthrowing_buddhas_teaching/ Link to all episodes: https://sites.libsyn.com/407831 # ewk translation Master Guishan, initially joined the assembly at Baizhang [Mountain, under Master Baizhang]. Baizhang, intending to choose the master for the great [temple at] Guishan [Mountain], then invited the head seat to address the assembly, saying, "Those who are exceptional may come forward." Baizhang then picked up a Purified Bottle, placed it on the ground, and posed the question, "You must no...
2024-08-281h 21
Zen Talking7-16-21 || Wumenguan 34: Nanquan's Mind not Buddha, Wisdom not WayPost: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1e3shwu/zen_has_no_private_understanding/ Context of Mazu, Case 27, 33, and the Case of Zhaozhou's enlightenment ewk confused, but it gets resolved Problems with meaning of "wisdom": Catholics/Buddhists say wisdom is "right thinking". new agers think wisdom is supernatural knowledge through emotion (topicalism) Zen and Philosophy (especially Natural Philosophy aka Science) see wisdom as knowledge of objects Including objects of thought. Lots of education required: 20th century failures: Catholics/Budddhists have contextual assumptions...
2024-07-161h 32
Stocks To WatchTrash into Treasure: Why Earthworks Industries (TSXV: $EWK) Could Be Your Next Big Green Investment?Waste management is one of the most pressing yet often overlooked issues affecting the world today, as irresponsible waste disposal continues to pollute our land and waterways. Earthworks Industries (TSXV:EWK) is a company that develops sustainable waste management solutions to help solve this critical issue.In this video, CEO and Director David Atkinson discusses the significance of the company's waste management programs, with a special focus on the Cortina Integrated Waste Management (CIWM) project in Colusa County, California. Stay tuned as he digs deep into the project's milestones and its promising potential.
2024-03-2918 min
Zen Talking1-16-24 Zen vs Normies – jeowy r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/196hqs7/zen_hopefuls_faith_in_teachings_vs_normies_trust/ Post Summary: A while ago ewk gave a description of the difference between trust and faith that stuck with me and has influenced my thinking quite a bit ever since. To paraphrase: faith can ignore evidence in favour of confidence in a given principle. that apparent confidence is seen as a worthwhile end in its own right. trust can t...
2024-02-1739 min
Zen Talking1-7-24 / First Zen Precept / Koancommentatorr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/s/mO9j80BU2v Post Summary: ewk claims to have derived Zen precepts algorythmically, chaos ensues. 1st Zen Precept: No Nest, No Tracks Having no nest means not preferring some particular set of faith-based principles, not insisting on only one answer or formula, not clinging or attaching to any set of beliefs, values, or ideologies. Leaving no tracks means not giving people something to follow. Leaving no tracks means no...
2024-02-0539 min
Zen Talking5-29 Dharma testing… one… two... r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/13th9am/zens_dharma_interviews_a_test_we_can_all_agree_on/ Post Summary: Accordingly, the Master said, "I don't inquire about the realm of the Buddha or the realm of the Path; rather, what kind of person is he who talks thus about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" When, after a long time, Ch'u had not responded, the Master said, "Why don't you answer m...
2023-07-0739 min
Zen Talking4-6 Yunju Says Sor/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/12c0d8k/yunju_is_going_to_the_monks_hall/ Post Summary: Dongshan went up to the hall and said, "There is a person who, in the midst of a thousand or even ten thousand people, neither turns his back on nor faces a single person. Now you tell me, what face does this person have?" Yunju came forward and said, "I am going to the Monk's Hall." Zen Teaching: Po...
2023-06-0539 min
Zen Talking3-4 Devil's Armyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8jssd/can_anyone_explain_wumens_quote/ Post Summary: Wumen's Rule #2: https://www.reddit.com//r/zen/wiki/warnings Doing what you like in every way is heresy and being among the devil's army. Zen Teaching: Wumen's Checkpoint, aka the Gateless Barrier or Gateless Gate. Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2023-03-1638 min
Zen TalkingFeb 23 - Faith in Mindr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/4us6c3/blyths_translation_of_faith_in_mind/ Post Summary: Remaining in movement or quiescence, How shall you know the One? Not thoroughly understanding the unity of the way Both (activity and quiescence) are failures. If you get rid of phenomena, All things are lost; if you follow after Void, You turn your back on the the selflessness of things. Zen Teaching: Faith in Mind, Blyth trans. There are a couple dozen...
2023-03-0939 min
Zen TalkingFeb 22 - Revenge of the Joshu Treer/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/116v10p/the_revenge_of_zhaozhous_tree/ Post Summary: Master Zhaozhou said, This matter is clearly evident - even immeasurably great people can't get out of here. When I went to Guishan, I saw a monk ask, "What is the meaning of the Chan founder's coming from the West?" Guishan said, "Bring me a chair." If one is a real Chan master one has to deal with people...
2023-03-0938 min
Zen TalkingFeb 19, 2023 - Anti-Zenr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10sebu9/antimasters/ Post Summary: I was thinking about how to characterize Zen texts by saying the main thing the texts were against. I don't think there's a right answer, but there are answers that aren't really reasonable. Zhaozhou - anti philosophy Huangbo - anti Buddhism Foyan - anti-teachers Wumen - anti noobs Yuanwu - anti lazy Wansong - anti ignorance Mingben - anti- conceptual Zen Teaching: www.reddit.com/r...
2023-03-0938 min
Zen TalkingZen Hits from Daianr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10xfaeg/zen_under_the_gun_just_the_hits_please/ Post Summary: Daian (1347-1403) We are at the end, and it's Daian's poetry. He does the traditional thing (unlike Wumen) and includes only one body blow per poem. Here are the blows from three poems, minus the poems: If not for my dharma-nephew, how would I open my old mouth to discuss it?...
2023-02-2838 min
Zen TalkingZen: Why bother?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/110vec7/zen_under_the_gun_why_bother/ Post Summary: Daian (1347-1403) The Natural Real Buddha (A verse to a Buddhist layman:) The true self in every person is the natural real buddha. Through every hour of the day and night it is always emitting light. If you can manage to see it personally as you lift your eyebrows, Why bother making special t...
2023-02-2838 min
Zen TalkingFeb 8, 2023 Zhaozhou's Tree in the Front Yardr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10wkbwn/a_tree/ Post Summary: A monk asked Zhaozhou, "What is the living meaning of [Zen]?" Zhaozhou said, "The cypress tree in the yard." … don't teach by means of materialism. I'm not. So what is the Zen Master Buddha Dharma? The tree in the front yard. Zen Teaching: Book of Serenity, the Modern Soto Zen bible, by Zen Master Wansong Post Cast Overview: The full Case. Wha...
2023-02-1438 min
Zen TalkingFeb 2, 2023 Stainless Studyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10rbpcb/zen_under_the_gun_stainless_study/ Post Summary: In front of the hall of the ancient buddhas, there has never been any other road. In the gate of the ancestral teachers, how could there be many kinds of talk? The Buddha Dharma is not different from the human mind: all inherent functioning is the intent of the enlightened ancestors. The deviation comes because of grasping false views. Buddha said to Ananda, "Even...
2023-02-1439 min
Zen Talking1-25-23 Commander of the Universer/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10if4d7/a_garuda_takes_command_of_the_universe/ Post Summary: A monk asked Master Xingyang Pou, "A dragon king comes out of the sea, sky and earth are tranquil—how is direct presentation?" The master said, "The garuda, king of birds, takes command of the universe—who can stick his head out here?" The monk said, "Suppose one suddenly appears, then what?" Xingyang said, "It's like...
2023-02-0538 min
Zen Talking1-24-23 Huineng gives dating advicer/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10gctc2/huineng_dating_advice_personalizing_the_text/ Post Summary: Huineng: "To concentrate the mind on quietness is a disease of the mind, and not Zen at all. What an idea, restricting the body to sitting all the time! That is useless. Listen to my verse: To sit and not lie down during one's life-time To lie and never sit during one's death-time, Why should we thus...
2023-02-0538 min
Zen TalkingFeb-1-2023 (experimental) What the heck is going on?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10qb691/already_gone/ Post Summary: Later on, when the Master (Yin-feng) arrived at (Guishan's), he put his robe and bowl on the head monk's seat. When Guishan heard that his younger Dharma-brother had come, he formally went to the hall to meet him. When the Master saw him, he lay down as if asleep. Guishan's returned to his quarters, and the Master started to leave. A bit later, Guishan asked his attendant, "Is my younger Dharma-brother...
2023-02-0139 min
Zen Talking1-21-23 Holy Bell of Zen, Batmonk!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10dzy9t/zen_under_the_gun_the_great_bell_of_the_zen/ Post Summary: "The Dharma is like a great bell hanging in an arch. Strike it hard and the sound is great, strike it lightly and the sound is slight. It is like a clear mirror on its stand-when a foreigner comes up to it, a foreigner appears in it, and when a native comes up to it, a native appears...
2023-01-3038 min
Zen Talking1-17-23 The XIANGYAN SHOW... in Three Versesr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/10b4bv4/xiangyans_three_verses/ Post Summary: The XIANGYAN SHOW One strike and all knowledge is forgotten. No more the mere pretense of practice. Transformed to uphold the ancient path, Not sunk in idle devices. Far and wide, not a trace is left. The great purpose lies beyond sound and form. In every direction the realized Way, Beyond all spe...
2023-01-3039 min
Zen Talking1-11-23 When We Meet r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/107vxz0/zen_under_the_gun_when_you_meet_people/ Post Summary: Daian said: "In Zen centers everywhere, they speak of Zen and the Way and quote ancient and modern. Dragons and elephants crowd around and the Dharma assemblies are flourishing and full. "Here at Jingshan with one-flavor Zen I settle cases on the basis of the facts. If someone comes in with his whole body covered with silk brocade, I make him g...
2023-01-3039 min
Zen Talking1-6-23 Two More Hermitsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary: Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is there? Is there?" That hermit also raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Able to let go, able to take away; able to kill, able...
2023-01-2239 min
Zen Talking1-5-23 Two Hermits, One Big Problemr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/103kkjg/zhaozhous_two_hermits/? Post Summary: Zhaozhou went to a hermit's place and asked, "Is there? Is there?" The hermit raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Where the water is shallow is not the place to moor a ship," and he left. He went to another hermit's place and said, "Is there? Is there?" That hermit also raised his fist. Zhaozhou said, "Able to let go, able to take away; able to kill, able...
2023-01-2238 min
Zen Talking12-31 No Rank!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zxefwk/a_true_man_of_no_rank_changes_the_former_behavior/ Post Summary: Linji said to the assembly, "There is a true man with no rank always going out and in through the portals of your face. Beginners who have not yet witnessed it, look! Look! Zen Teaching: 38th case from Wansong's Book of Serenity, Modern Zen Bible! Soto Zen Book of Instruction! https://www.amazon.com/Book-Serenity-One-Hundred-Dialogues/dp/1590302494 ...
2023-01-2238 min
Zen Talking12-31 Standing, Facing A Wallr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zz5gls/9_years_is_a_long_time_to_stare_at_a_wall/ Post Summary: Emperor Wu of Liang asked Great Master Bodhidharma, "What is the highest meaning of the holy reality?" Bodhidharma replied, "Vast and void, no holiness." The emperor said, "Who are you in front of me?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." The emperor did not match him. Finally, Bodhidharma crossed the Yangtze River and came to the Shaolin Temple. There h...
2023-01-1538 min
2023-01-1539 min
Zen Talking12-29 AMAingr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: Christmas eve ewk AMA Post Summary: What's up with ewk? Zen Teaching: Wumen's Checkpoint aka Gateless Gate Post Cast Overview: What's up with the supernatural? Are Zen Masters interested in God? What can we say is true? Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2023-01-1538 min
Zen Talking12-9 The Boat Monkr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/zgka4q/go_fish_ft_jiashan_and_the_boatman/ Post Summary: He also asked, "Letting down a line a thousand fathoms, the intent is in the depths. Three inches away from the hook, why don't you speak?" As Jiashan was about to open his mouth, the Boatman knocked him into the water with a pole. As soon as climbed up into the boat, the Boatman again said, "Speak, speak!" As he was...
2023-01-0738 min
Zen Talking12-8 Zen Is a System of Thought, Based on Enlightenment, dedicated to the prop...r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z8c6py/zen_is_a_system_of_thought_based_on_enlightenment Post Summary: Zen is not random. Zen is not religion based on faith. Zen is not philosophy, based on logically proceeding from a given starting point. Zen Teaching: All of them. The history of Zen teachings, teachings about teachings, and Zen historical records. Post Cast Overview: Astromi has strong feelings. What is Zen? People pretending Zen is random...
2023-01-0738 min
Zen Talking11-17 Whose Wrongs Are Those?Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yqyrmw/questions_about_yuanwus_commentary_for_bcr_98/ Post Summary: User asks questions about the 98th case of the Blue Cliff Record. Most notably things that help clear up what Yuanwu is saying in his commentary when using metaphors and other literary figures. Zen Teaching: Yuanwu's Blue Cliff Record case 98 Post Cast Overview: astroemi and GreenSage read through the case and talk about how they understand it in order to answer as many questions from the OP as they can (they are a lot).
2023-01-0733 min
Zen Talking12-2 Answering a Madmanr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/za5mwr/zen_under_the_gun_answering_a_madman/ Post Summary: Dalan said: "After the end of the summer retreat, all of you Zen worthies will go off in various directions. "Suppose that suddenly in a village of three families you bump into a madman who asks you this: 'Eminent one, you have come from Jingshan, so tell me what did the master who founded the temple there mean when...
2022-12-3138 min
Zen Talking11-30 What You Haven't Doner/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z4504a/what_you_havent_done/ Post Summary: 35th Case from BoS. It's a chicken roosting in a phoenix nest. The moon in the clouds is the same. Before my eyes there is no you, no me. Zen Teaching: Book of Serenity, Cleary Post Cast Overview: Something, something, hooks and fish. A review of the Case and the story behind it. The difference between internet whackos, Luopu, and Jiashan, three kinds.
2022-12-3137 min
Zen Talking11-27 Buddha Defeatedr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z4yk2b/zen_under_the_gun_buddhas_defeat/ Post Summary: "Buddha's end was a scene of defeat. In the assembly of billions, not one had the energy of a patchrobed monk. Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun: Four generations of Masters Post Cast Overview: The Cases before and after. The question of what Daian knew and when he knew it. Is alive and dead like not enlightend and enlighted...
2022-12-3138 min
Zen Talking11-23 A Fist Full of Emptinessr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yze4pa/a_few_good_zen_cases/ Post Summary: A monk asked, "What about it when practice has no end and enquiry has no end?' Zhaozhou said, "Whether there is an end or not, in the eyes of a person of the Way it is like a drop of spit." The monk said, "What is the fact of 'that' [state of mind]?" The master spat on the ground.
2022-12-0939 min
Zen Talking11-21 Gaoan's Conduct and Virtuer/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/z0acq9/gaoans_conduct_and_virtue/ Post Summary: Once when one of the monastery officers refused to make such an expenditure, Gaoan upbraided him, saying, in ancient times the founder of the Chan commune established the treasury for the sake of the aged and infirm. You are not sick and not dead." People of discernment from all quarters esteemed Gaoan's personal conduct highly. When he retired from Yunju and went...
2022-12-0937 min
Zen Talking11-18 You aren't paying attentionr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yy8akj/you_arent_paying_fing_attention_get_it_together/ Post Summary: Dharma combat isn't combat "By still depending on teachings, you sicken your mind," said Ch'u. "But how great is the sickness of the one who talks about the realm of the Buddha and the realm of the Path?" said Dongshan. Again Ch'u did not reply. The next day he suddenly passed away. At that time Dongshan...
2022-12-0937 min
Zen Talking11-17 Can Someone Explain Koans to Me?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yrfop9/can_someone_explain_koans_to_me/ Post Summary: If I am being honest, I am probably trying to achieve some state where I can feel perfectly good all the time or at least live my life 100% fully and appreciate and have a good time. Podcast Highlights: Somebody explains something? Zen Teaching: Koans! Koans are historical records! Not parables! Not fables! Not fictional! Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r...
2022-12-0439 min
Zen Talking11-10 Buffet is Scottish for "More"r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ypt3lf/medicine_buffet/ Post Summary: Part 2, because people can pick whatever they want Podcast Highlights: What is medicine and disease? Who gets to have a conversation… what historians and translators are up to... Zen Teaching: same same Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-12-0439 min
Zen Talking11-9 Medicine Buffetr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Post summary: Master Fachang Yu brought up to master Nan the minister Chang's contemplation of the saying about circumstances of birth. Fachang said, "Why not put an immediate end for him?" Nan said, "Legs were drawn for a snake, but he didn't get a glimpse." Fachang said, "How did you help him?" Nan said, "Chewing up raw ginger, drinking up vinegar." Zen Teaching: Dahui's The Original Shobogenzo, https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Eye-True-Teaching-Discourses-ebook/dp...
2022-12-0439 min
Zen Talking11-4 No Doubt Will Remain r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Quotes about Enlightenment Zen Teaching: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yjto51/enlightenment_no_doubt_will_remain/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-2838 min
Zen Talking11-2 Zhaozhou's Sincere Man, Mistaken Doctriner/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Zen Teaching: Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu: https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X/ Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/yigo49/the_wrong_man_and_the_right_way/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-2837 min
Zen Talking10-28 Famous Zen One Linersr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: What's a famous one liner you think is Zen? And is it? Zen Teaching: All of it! www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/famous_cases Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ye0aly/favorite_zen_one_liners/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-2837 min
Zen Talking10-27 This Magic Moment… so different, so new… now with robot overlordsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Gulin (1262-1329) Gulin said, "When the particular time arrives, the truth is spontaneously apparent. The sunlight does not wait for a fire to be warm. The moonlight does not wait for the breeze to be cool. The world is one rod wide, the ancient mirror is one rod wide, the stove is one rod wide. "Where the buddha-image is big there is much mud. Where the boats ride high the tide is in." Zen Teaching: Zen Under to Gun, later c...
2022-11-1937 min
Zen Talking10-26 Fame and @#$% - Mendicants?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y9fwc6/looking_for_mendicants_to_live_the_same/ Post Summary: Passing unnoticed in the world. We know that Shakya's sons and daughters Are poor in body, but not in the [Way]. Zen Teaching: BCR? Cleary? Yuanwu? Amazon? "Read a book!" -Handy and the Human Ton Post Cast Overview: (under construction) Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-1939 min
Zen Talking10.17 Ki and Astro Episode: I'm not the good guyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y2ox55/im_not_the_good_guy/ Post Summary: First, consider these statements... if you think you recognize them, pretend you don't: I like killing I'm not a Buddha Your mother is ugly I don't play children's games. What kind of person talks like this? Podcast Highlights: I haven't heard it yet myself! Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/z...
2022-11-1939 min
Zen Talking10-13 For people who are strugglingr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Zhaozhou, teaching the assembly, "The Ultimate Path is without difficulty; just avoid picking and choosing. As soon as there are words and speech, 'this is picking and choosing,' 'this is clarity.' This old monk does not abide within clarity; do you still preserve anything or not?" Once there was a monk who asked, "Since you do not abide in clarity, what is to be preserved?" Zhaozhou said, "I don't know either." Zen T...
2022-11-0539 min
Zen Talking10-12 No bad Corporationsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: The post is a rant about the impurity of society... is there any good guy? Is big business the big bad? Is it morally wrong to participate in a free market? Is all higher education just conformity programming? Zen Teaching: Laymen Pang, Green trans. https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309 Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/y030nf/laymen_and_the_layman/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-0538 min
Zen Talking10-7 Nanquin Wasn't Fooling Your/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Speaking to the patrons at the festival, Gulin said, "Nanquan said, 'The whole world in my patron'. He wasn't fooling you!" Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xv03x1/zen_under_the_gun_nanquan_is_not_forgotten/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-11-0537 min
Zen Talking10-6 Precepts Cult and Chinese Historyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Bodhidharma Anthology, records from around 550ish Dharma Master Chih saw Dharma Master Yuan on the street of the butchers and asked, "Do you see the butchers slaughtering the sheep? Dharma master Yuan said, "My eyes are not blind. How could I not see them? Dharma Master chih said, "Master Yuan, you are saying you see it!" Master Yuan waid, "You are seeing it on top of seeing it!" Dian, Zen Under the Gun, as late as 1400ish Dian said, "T...
2022-10-2738 min
Zen Talking9-29 Level Ground and Mystic Mountain: Double Barrier!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Yuantong's Question: Practicing mysticism is still going on a steep and difficult path; what is level ground1? Wansong's Answer: East, west, south, north. Linquan's Instructional Verse: East, west, south, north- thorns piercing the heavens. A stone man without legs needn't exert effort. You still must pass through that double barrier When free in all ways you finally escape from bondage. Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com...
2022-10-2738 min
Zen Talking9-27 Vegetarianism, Online Enlightenment, and Preceptsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: A monk asked, "Mixing without becoming impure - what is that like?" Joshu said, "I eat only vegetable food; I always adhere to the precepts." The monk said, "Can one elevate oneself in this way?" Joshu said, "You would trespass against the law." Zen Teaching: Zen Under the Gun: Four generations of Masters 1200-1400 https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Under-Gun-Masters-Turbulent/dp/0861715926 Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xntmtq/zen_under_the...
2022-10-2737 min
Zen Talking9-26 Haz Enlightenmentz?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Yangshan said, "From now on what should be my mode of life?" Guishan said, "I admire your Dharma Eye; I am not concerned about the practical side of the matter." Zen Teaching: Blyth Zen and Zen Classics on Terebess, Yunmen on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Master-Yunmen-Essential-Sayings/dp/1611805597 Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/xirodj/haz_enlightenments/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-10-1436 min
Zen Talking9-19 Layman Pang… Zen bros!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: On another day, the Layman asked Ch'i-feng, "Do you know how far it is from here to the top of the peak?" Ch'i-feng said, "I'm not sure if you can really get there from here." The Layman said, "If it were so awfully steep and treacherous, I wouldn't have asked about it."" Ch'i-feng said, "You tell me how far it then." Zen Teaching: Layman Pang! https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309
2022-10-1439 min
Zen Talking9-16 The Bahiya Suttar/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bāhiya, there is no you in connection with that. Zen Teaching: Hu...
2022-10-1436 min
Zen Talking9-13 Zen and Mental Illnessr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Despite what trolls, tryhards, wannabes, and outsiders have to say about r/zen, this place is a resource like no other when it comes to the study of Zen. People who are serious waste no time… I can split that four years into three phases. There is the time when I was very ill mentally, leading up to diagnosis and treatment. At the time I was unable to directly confront what the masters were pointing to. My study was purely intellectual. Z...
2022-10-0532 min
Zen Talking9-11 Is Zen Worth Studying?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Foyan said: "I urge you not to be crude minded. In your conduct, day and night, keep evolving higher; then even if you do not attain enlightenment, you will still be a highly refined individual. Be sure to be attentive" Zen Teaching: Foyan, Cleary trans. - https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Zen-Waking-Up-Present/dp/1556431937 Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x75l5i/is_zen_worth_studying_without_ever_attaining/ Zen L...
2022-10-0537 min
Zen Talking9-10 Why Can't You Uphold the Precepts?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: A monk asked Muzhou, "Can the entire canon be recited in one breath?" Muzhou said, "What pastries do you have? Set them right out!" Dahui said, "When you get up early in the morning, there are also people who've been traveling by night." Zen Teaching: Dahui's Shobogenzo, trans. Cleary – no longer on Amazon Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x9ajz2/muzhous_why_cant_you_uphold_the_five_precepts/...
2022-10-0538 min
Zen Talking9-8 Can Enlightenment be Lost?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Can some people attain enlightenement, gain a glimpse of "the way," and forget about it to no longer be enlightened? Do the truly enlightened maintain their clarity eternally? Zen Teaching: Blyth's Zen and Zen Classics Volume 3 (Soto Zen) Reddit Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x7otc3/can_enlightenment_be_lost_after_attained/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-2738 min
Zen Talking9-6 Precepts Optional?r/zen is a reddit form about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Is not murdering, not lying, and not raping just optional? Follow your nature, blend with the Way, be free and easy, a stranger to all care. Text: Trust in Mind aka Faith in Mind, available all over. Let me know if you can't find it. Compare translations! Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x27ook/hot_take_adhering_to_precepts_is_not_required/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-2738 min
Zen Talking9-5 Layman Pang and the Lay Preceptsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: The Layman said, "I will do whatever is best." It came to pass that he never shaved his head to join the sangha. Text: Layman Pang: https://www.amazon.com/Sayings-Layman-Pang-Classic-China/dp/1590306309 Post: https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x2wauo/zen_take_layman_pang_and_the_5_lay_precepts/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-2735 min
Zen Talking9-2 Yangshan's Pearlr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Master Yangshan went to Dongsi. Dongsi asked, "Where are you from?" Yangshan said, "I'm from Guangnan." Dongsi said, "I've heard that there is a bright pearl that stills the sea in Guanguan. Is this true?" Yangshan said, "Yes." Dongsi said, "What is this pearl like?" Yangshan said, "It is hidden when the moon is dark, and appears when the moon is bright." Dongsi said, "And did you bring it?" Yangshan said, "I brought it." Dongsi said, "Why don't you show me?" Yangshan...
2022-09-2038 min
Zen Talking8-30 Did I get the point?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: "My cousin recently became Christian, and asked me if I read anything spiritual or religious. I told him I read the mumonkan and pitched it as "The Zen Bible"." Zen Teaching: Zhaozhou's "No" via https://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Sayings-Zen-Master-Joshu/dp/157062870X Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/x0extu/did_i_get_the_point_or_am_i_fooling_myself/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-2038 min
Zen Talking8-28 Can I be Zen while others suffer?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: I don't have as much of an issue with the idea of letting go of my own suffering, but when it comes to others, I feel some moralistic way about it, like sometimes I feel empathy or moral outrage. How does zen address this? Zen Teaching: Huangbo said, "Compassion is not seeing others as to-be enlightened" via https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/dp/0802150926/ Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wukpwz/how_can_i_be_zen_if_others_a...
2022-09-2038 min
Zen Talking8-27 Yuanwu Decodes Zen: Secrets Inside!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Yuanwu said, "A monk asked, "What is the task in the patch robe?" Xianglin said, "Fire burns a mountain in December." Yunmen said, "The twenty-fifty day of December-look look-the last month is ending." Xianglin is a son inheriting his father's [Yunmen's] business. Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Chan-Buddhist-Classic-ebook/dp/B07RYFN7JM/ Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wxucan/measuring_tap_sounding_strike_yuanwu_decodes_teh/ Ze...
2022-09-1439 min
Zen Talking8-27 Guest and Host is confusing!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Huangbo, via the text Teachings of Huang Po: 32) Once our Master requested a short leave of absence and Nan Shan asked where he was going. 'I'm just off to gather some vegetables.' 'What are you going to cut them with?' Our Master held up his knife, whereupon Nan Shan remarked: 'Well, that's all right for a guest but not for a host.' Zen Teaching: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/d...
2022-09-1438 min
Zen Talking8-24 Is there a Self that Persists?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Is there a self in Zen? If we can't quote Zen Masters, how would we know? Zen Teaching: Try Mazu! https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Face-Buddha-Teachings-Ma-Tsu-Hung-Chou/dp/0875730221 Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wu7lml/there_might_not_be_a_self_that_persists_through/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-1439 min
Zen TalkingLost My Zen to Empathyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: ...sometimes I feel empathy or moral outrage. How does zen address this? Zen Teaching: Huangbo! https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission/dp/0802150926/ Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wukpwz/how_can_i_be_zen_if_others_are_suffering/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/getstarted
2022-09-0737 min
Zen TalkingWhat's Going on with Foyan?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Over the age of thirty, it's better not to study, because it will be hard to learn even if you do, and it will also be of dubious value. If you have taken care of your own business, on the other hand-- that is, the business of the self -- then you will still be able to learn through study, because you have been transformed. But if you have done with your own business, why would you study? If you are twenty years of a...
2022-09-0736 min
Zen TalkingWatch Out! Arrow!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Once, Zhaozhou paid a visit to Zhuyu. Upon ascending into the Hall of the Law, Zhuyu said, "Watch out! Arrow!" Zhaozhou replied, "Watch out! Arrow!" Zhuyu said, "Miss!" Zhaozhou said, "Mark!" Text: https://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Tap-Chan-Buddhist-Classic-ebook/dp/B07RYFN7JM Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wohy0i/a_case_involving_watching_out_for_an_unreal_arrow/ Zen Lineage: www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/ge...
2022-09-0737 min
Zen Talkingewk's 2nd Dreamr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: "When Buddha wants you to talk, you talk. When Buddha wants to you say nothing, you open your mouth but words don't come out". Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wqank0/ewks_second_dream/
2022-08-3037 min
Zen TalkingBodhidharma Comic Books: Biff! Pow!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Fanfiction vs History vs Religious Fairy Tales and Truth and Consequences and Nobody Drinking Tea on Air Link:https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wnqao5/heres_a_take_on_bodhidharma_and_his_sidekick/
2022-08-3039 min
Zen TalkingBaizhang's Foxy Foxr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Blind to cause and effect? Cured by karma? You decide! Not really. I'm writing these for my own amusement. Was it a celebrity guest fox? It turns out it was. Who can you trust these days. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wlw34m/baizhangs_fox/
2022-08-3038 min
Zen TalkingHengchuan's Gluttony and False Selfr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Hengchuan said, "The whole body is food, the whole body is drink. How many drink themselves to death? How many eat themselves to death?" "The method of dwelling in peace has already been explained: we just have to practice it faithfully. As we raise and lower our feet, we naturally do not harm living beings. To protect life requires killing the false self; only when this is completely slain can one live in peace. This method too must be...
2022-08-2338 min
Zen TalkingThe Zen Lineage is Ongoingr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: This post started because somebody said is the Zen lineage over? How could Enlightenment be over? Churches ordain followers. Zen Masters reluctantly acknowledge equals. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wbl8rm/the_zen_lineage_is_ongoing_going_beyond/
2022-08-2338 min
Zen TalkingWhat is a koan? Kensho? Satori?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: I could not find much of value about either of these beyond a vague definition like "seeing one's true self". Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wd78yt/i_dont_understand_koan_satori_and_kensho/ Bonus! Follow up Post! https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wdxkvy/language_barrier_kensho_and_satori_in_chinese/
2022-08-2337 min
Zen TalkingDid Zen Save You? Plus Beef!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Guy thought his church was Zen, believes quitting the church freed him from... church? Plus Astro complains about me, and we find out maybe I'm not the bad guy we all thought I was. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/wcfg81/zen_freed_me_from_zen_and_everything_else/
2022-08-1638 min
Zen TalkingSimply Laughable! Zhaozhou v. Huangbor/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Zhaozhou went to Huangbo Yuanwu interrupting: (Two old outlaws.) Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7d5x7/comment/ihl37fv/
2022-08-1637 min
Zen TalkingYou say Goodbye?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: ...Except I was not thinking. I was doing everything but. Just now it occurred to me that coming here is nothing but a habit. Should I indulge the habit? Should I put an end to it? Is this goodbye? You tell me. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w7dngs/farewell_perhaps/
2022-08-0937 min
Zen TalkingZen's Other Meditationsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Since we all now know that Zazen meditation is not doctrinally or historically related to Zen, what other forms of meditation or other practices used in zen? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w6bhyx/meditation_and_zen/
2022-08-0938 min
Zen TalkingLife is Too Short Not to See Peopler/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Should we cherish or be attached to strangers? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/w0njrb/is_life_too_short_to_spend_time_with_people_youll/
2022-08-0238 min
Zen TalkingDead even though Aliver/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: ""One who has not attained is an old crow in a cloth bag, as if dead even though alive." Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vxrh31/measuring_tap_the_living_and_the_deadthoughalive/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
2022-08-0236 min
Zen TalkingDevil's Armyr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: "Was it Huang Bo who said that you should not behave against moral principles even when you walk the Way, or you will become part of the devil's army?" What if you believe in innate evil? What if you believe in monsters? Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vv9zcj/what_is_there_to_stop_us_from_becoming_part_of/
2022-07-2037 min
Zen TalkingActing Freely - Now with Bonus Wumen!r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: Wumen teaches, "Granted you are free, just tell me: Does the sound come to the ear or does the ear go to the sound? If both sound and silence die away, at such a juncture how could you talk of Chán?" Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/vtq9gi/acting_freely_and_achieving_an_outcome/
2022-07-2037 min
Zen TalkingWhy 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/
2022-07-1237 min
Zen TalkingBeyond Dunhuangr/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/
2022-07-1239 min
Zen TalkingWhat 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/
2022-07-1237 min
Zen TalkingGuishan's Post-Enlightenment Practice... Flashbackr/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/
2022-07-0537 min
Zen TalkingTriggeredr/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/
2022-07-0535 min
Zen TalkingWord Girl's Candler/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/
2022-06-2832 min
Zen TalkingMany Kinds of Zen Sicknessr/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/
2022-06-2133 min
Zen TalkingPost-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/
2022-06-2135 min
Zen TalkingPost: I don't know how to study Zenr/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/
2022-06-1436 min
Zen TalkingPost: Not depending on Lettersr/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/
2022-06-1331 min
Zen TalkingPost: Introduction for Zennistsr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice. Summary: A wide ranging post that starts with Foyan and then quotes almost everybody! Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uzv6r4/an_introduction_for_zennists_1_instant_zen/
2022-06-0731 min
Zen TalkingPost: Zen Master says Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenmentr/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: Dr. Foyan: Why sitting meditation practice NEVER produces enlightenment and only makes you sicker. https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uuzt0j/dr_foyan_why_sitting_meditation_practice_never/ Title says it all.
2022-05-3132 min
Zen TalkingPost: WTF is going on here?r/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/utjpv5/what_the_fuck_is_going_on/ "I'm very new here, and I've done a little of the recommended reading from this sub. I've enjoyed it thoroughly but I honestly don't f*ing understand it"
2022-05-2432 min
Zen TalkingPost: Zen Masters Are Lying To Your/zen is a reddit forum about Zen scholarship, study, and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/tm1r9i/zen_masters_are_lying_to_you/ "Zen masters contradict each other all the time. They even contradict themselves, in the same text! Why is that, haven't you wondered? "
2022-05-2033 min
Zen TalkingPost: Zen's Relation to Beliefsr/zen is a forum about Zen scholarshiop and practice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/uhtxon/zens_relation_to_beliefs/ "can people who cling benefit from introspection and use their beliefs as a tool?"
2022-05-2020 minZen TalkingMarch 28, Post: "Results of My Zen Practice"ewk and Alexa talk about the post titled "results of my Zen practice". The intention was to cover three posts, it doesn't look like that can happen in a half hour! https://reddit.com/r/zen/comments/tlptcw/results_of_my_zen_practice/
2022-03-2830 min