Not Zen? (Repeat Question 1) Suppose a person denotes your lineage and your teacher as Buddhism unrelated to Zen, because there are several quotations from Zen patriarchs denouncing seated meditation. Would you be fine saying that your lineage has moved away from Zen and if not, how would you respond to being challenged concerning it?
What's your text? (Repeat Question 2) What text, personal experience, quote from a master, or story from zen lore best reflects your understanding of the essence of zen?
Dharma low tides? (Repeat Question 3) What do you suggest as a course of action for a student wading through a "dharma low-tide"? What do you do when it's like pulling teeth to read, bow, chant, sit, or post on r/zen?
Why the duck does it say “RePeAt QuEsTiOn 1” but nobody has corrected it and people still copy and paste it into their amas!??!?!
Didn’t Huangbo’s teacher start some sort of monastic code with seated meditation as a hallmark? What the ducking duck is the big deal about one more expedient technique involving sitting in meditation? Aren’t we trying to cease conceptual thought and blah blah blah, why wouldn’t that help? And if it helps follow the advice that all these zen masters give, how the crap is it not relevant?
The text that best reflects my understanding is..
“The most completely successful form of zealous application is the absence from your minds of all such distinctions as ‘my body', ‘my mind'. As soon as you begin to seek for something outside your own Mind, you are like Kalirāja bent on hunting. But when you prevent your minds from going on travels outside themselves, you are already akṣānti-rishi. NO BODIES AND NO MINDS —that is the Way of the Buddhas!”
Huangbo. Summary being quit your bullshit you don’t need a damn concept in the slightest.
Dharma low tide? That doesn’t make any sense. The hell would you follow some “law” if you’re reality and you don’t want to do some useless ritual?
Come at me, past 10 on a monday. I'm sure this will go swimmingly.
Submitted May 07, 2019 at 10:42AM by thejoesighuh http://bit.ly/2J5tz2g
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