r/zen • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '18

Huang Po: Motionless Mind

Not til your thoughts cease their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Zazen isn’t meditation. You can wash and bowls and practice Zazen. That doesn’t mean you’re doing anything special. In fact, it’s actually quite mundane.

When you have learned this fact, you will empty all dharmas, giving them no life. This is why Huangbo is so right in gutting out religious practice. He’s one of the main reasons why I practice sitting dhyana, actually.

And are you talking about the Soto and Rinzai lineages? Because zazen existed before that, even before Shakyamuni.

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u/koalazen Mar 14 '18

Even ewk cannot disturb your zazen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

:-)

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Mar 14 '18

Dude, you go to a church that puts sex predators in charge out of faith in a practice created by a fraud and a plagiarist. Dogen created Zazen prayer-meditation.

Finally, when confronted about this, you lie about Huangbo.

You practice self deception, man. That's what the evidence points to. And Zazen prayer-meditation just makes it easier for you to lie to yourself.

There is no question that people like lying to themselves, you've proven that. But that's as far as you can go. You are held back from realizing anything, mixing it up with the Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur people and waiting for your turn to burn a witch.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

The Soto Church didn’t create Zazen because it’s something that is part of our Buddha Nature. The Tso Ch’an I lives in you. Zazen is just a word that the Japanese made up to feel better about themselves. Call it whatever you wish. It’s ineffable. Even calling it Zen is a mistake.

Whatever church you belong to, I’m not interested.

I only practice Zazen. Everything else is highly irrelevant.

And on the Huangbo part: how is repeating the teachings of a Zen Master lying? He repeatedly disparaged meditation in Transmission of Mind. Did you miss that part?

I say that Huangbo is the one of the main reasons that I practice Zazen in the first place for a reason.

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Mar 14 '18

Why would you think any of this was tru? Wait... wait... let me guess....

You had a transpsychic healing vision, didn't you?

You were smooching up the Huangbo text, because that's what scholars do, late at night, in your room, and you had a transpsychic yeti vision that Huangbo wanted you to do Zazen prayer-meditation, because in your vision Buddha learned it from a yeti.

All. the. pieces. fit.

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The Soto Church didn’t create Zazen because it’s something that is part of our Buddha Nature. The Tso Ch’an I lives in you. Zazen is just a word that the Japanese made up to feel better about themselves. Call it whatever you wish. It’s ineffable. Even calling it Zen is a mistake.

Whatever church you belong to, I’m not interested.

I only practice Zazen. Everything else is highly irrelevant.

And on the Huangbo part: how is repeating the teachings of a Zen Master lying? He repeatedly disparaged meditation in Transmission of Mind. Did you miss that part?

I say that Huangbo is the one of the main reasons that I practice Zazen in the first place for a reason.

Later when the question of you getting banned for refusing to follow the Reddiquette to the point of lying to people about Huangbo, we can revisit this.

You can pretend all of a sudden that "Zazen" isn't a term of art in the West for Dogen's religion if you like, to muddy the waters, mix in some Chinese, that's all good clean fun... make people pin you down, define your terms, hunt you to your etymological tree of eternal knowledge and what not...

But you know me.

I'm too lazy.

Can't quote Zen Masters? Can't participate in a Zen forum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18 edited Dec 03 '20

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Mar 15 '18

Absolutely.

Just don't blame me when they ask you where it comes from.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18 edited Dec 03 '20

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Mar 15 '18

Your only obligation is to your own mind.

Bwhahahahahaa.

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u/hookdump 🦄🌈可怕大愚盲瞑禪師🌈🦄 Mar 15 '18

You were smooching up the Huangbo text, because that's what scholars do, late at night, in your room, and you had a transpsychic yeti vision that Huangbo wanted you to do Zazen prayer-meditation, because in your vision Buddha learned it from a yeti.

I'm crying

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u/koalazen Mar 14 '18

Now your zazen is disturbed. Ewk is truly a master.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Oh no, how unfortunate :(

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

I enjoyed reading your explanation of zazen. Thanks for sharing!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Anytime, friend!

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u/essentialsalts Dionysiac Monster & Annihilator of Morality Mar 14 '18

Stop talking to it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '18

Talking to what? Sorry for the ignorance