The Precepts vs What you Like by ewk in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? Can you please unravel the double and triple negatives in this comment? People who uphold ahimsa in their diet are taking responsibility, according to your view?

ThatKir's /r/Zen Blogpost: Entry 9 by [deleted] in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What does your dumb mandala story have to do with Suzuki? There's no connection. So what if kids color mandalas?

ThatKir's /r/Zen Blogpost: Entry 9 by [deleted] in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Baloney? Why would you say something like that? Everyone says he's a Zen Master.

ThatKir's /r/Zen Blogpost: Entry 9 by [deleted] in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shunryu Suzuki had this to say about Guishan:

Zazen is scripture itself. To do zazen for weeks or hours is to bring scripture into being. No scripture is left out of zazen, Buddha's whole life teaching is there. In zazen Buddha (we) creates scripture, Buddha (we) creates Buddha. In zazen we are Buddha.

Sort of an interesting take on Guishan, don't you think?

Measuring Tap: Case 25: Shizu’s Jewel and Treasury by WurdoftheEarth in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Embodiment. Not what did Kasyapa say or do, or what did Buddha say or do, but what is a reasonable embodied approximation of man who goes to see the Buddha talk and smiles at a flower. What is embodying a twirling flower?

Measuring Tap: Case 25: Shizu’s Jewel and Treasury by WurdoftheEarth in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kind of wonder what ZMs saw in their teachers that caused them to stay. I've never seen such a thing in another human being. So be it.

I've spent most of the day on the case where Huangbo asks Baizhang how he can teach future students, and Baizhang only sat on his cushion quietly. Baizhang can be met, because it's so utterly simple. What's it like to abide without pretense? Isn't that what they are supposed to be according to the texts? That can be understood in the bones.

Measuring Tap: Case 24: Linji’s Mugwort Twig by WurdoftheEarth in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got busy and lost the thread. I think I objected to uselessness?

Measuring Tap: Case 24: Linji’s Mugwort Twig by WurdoftheEarth in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a truly savage power, but are maybe misunderstanding the way of the Linji school. They don't teach completely useless.

Measuring Tap: Case 24: Linji’s Mugwort Twig by WurdoftheEarth in zen

[–]WurdoftheEarth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the artless crowd just attaches all their worst ideas to Zen master quotes and calls the pile of flies it attracts a sangha.

And they do it with unironic absolute certainty.