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Zen Talking

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Zen is a tradition from India that passed into China. Zen culture is based on the Five Lay Precepts, the Four Statements of Zen, and Zen's only practice: Public Interview, which is where we get Zen koans.This podcast covers topics like: What does that koan mean? How is Zen different from Buddhism/Christianity/Zazen? Why isn't Zen a philosophy? What do Zen Masters say that is applicable to modern life? What does it mean to have a community/sangha?

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300 episodes

  1. Zen Talking: 21st Century Translation demystifies Zen's "Guest and Master" 51:53
  2. Zen Talking: Read Zen at the University Zurich 36:36
  3. Zen Talking: Soto-Caodong Master Wansong on the Subtle Barrier 27:47
  4. Zen Talking: Nice Pants! 1:01:33
  5. Zen Talking: Precepts and Enlightenment, Compass and Conspiracy 1:09:57
  6. Zen Talking: I'll have what the Teacher is Having 58:21
  7. Zen Talking:- Bielefeldt: 11 years later 1:14:19
  8. Zen Talking: Meaning and Intention in Zen teachings 54:45
  9. Zen Talking: Divorcing Zen from Mahayana 55:30
  10. Zen Talking: Zen vs Mindfulness 55:00
  11. Zen Talking: What are "Good Zen Manners"? 48:06
  12. Zen Talking: More Faith, More Mind, More Robots 39:32
  13. Zen Talking: ReadZen in Korea 59:32
  14. Zen Talking: Taking a break from Zen study 43:09
  15. Zen Talking: Case 17 Book of Serenity, Zen instruction by Soto-Caodong Master Wansong 39:39
  16. Zen Talking: Bookstore Crap vs 1,000 years of history 55:21
  17. Zen Talking: Am I Enlightened? 43:14
  18. Talking Zen Podcast: CBETA Tool - Zen vs Machine 1:01:28
  19. Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Person of the Past 52:05
  20. Zen Talking: Recipe from Your Heart 59:07
  21. Zen Talking - Absolute Truth 51:13
  22. Zen Talking: Zen Barriers 51:13
  23. Zen Talking: Zhaozhou and 1,000 hands 55:05
  24. Zen Talking: Sutras are trash? 47:31
  25. Zen Talking: Mexican Ingeniousness 1:01:09
  26. Zen Talking: Knowledge and Habit Energies 53:41
  27. Zen Talking: Sangha for Everybody? 53:44
  28. Zen Talking - Sangha, Fear, Mental Health, Ignorance 1:02:33
  29. Zen Talking: Why so famous? r/Zen's most controversial reference 50:38
  30. Zen Talking: Linji Teaching... but What is he talking about? 50:15
  31. Zen Talking: Nanquan Reincarnated as Bull 48:36
  32. Zen Talking: That's no moon... that's Silent Illumination! 55:14
  33. Zen Talking: Foyan's Facing It Directly... Facing What? 42:54
  34. Zen Talking: Nanquan breaks the precepts 45:12
  35. Zen Talking: Poverty and Dependence 50:26
  36. Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Nothing Lacking 39:46
  37. Zen Talking: Moon Face Buddha - Social Media and Mental Health 41:08
  38. Zen Talking: Bodhidharma's Mind and Anxiety Pacification 33:54
  39. Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Bright or Dark 53:08
  40. Zen Talking - Eating Grass: Reincarnated Almsgiver's Ox 45:06
  41. Zen Talking: Zen's Traditional Violence... which goes a little off topic 36:06
  42. Zen Talking: How hard are koans? 27:10
  43. Zen Talking: Belly for Zen 32:01
  44. Zen Talking: Xuefeng's Grain of Rice 35:37
  45. Zen Talking: Zen and Buddhism 36:05
  46. Zen Talking: Cause, Effect, and Community 1:02:52
  47. Zen Talking - Don't Misconceive, from Dahui's Shobogenzo 48:28
  48. Zen Talking: Falling into Cause and Effect 47:34
  49. Zen Talking - May 4 - Lady Zen Master Case 2: Zen is the Best! 38:53
  50. Zen Talking - April 26 2025 - Miaozong, Woman As Zen Master - Case 1 50:23