r/zen post of the week

Dec 31, 2022

r/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...

Dec 31, 2022

r/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: 35^th 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...

Dec 31, 2022

r/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:...

Dec 9, 2022

r/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...

Dec 9, 2022

r/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...