Sep 27, 2022
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...
Sep 27, 2022
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....
Sep 27, 2022
r/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
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Sep 19, 2022
r/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...
Sep 19, 2022
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”...