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You know you're...

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:39 pm
by plwk
a Zen Buddhist when...

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:11 pm
by mindyourmind
You respond to difficult practice questions with 'who is asking that question?'

Or

You convince yourself that excruciating pain in your knees during zazen will cause satori.

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:19 pm
by DGA
your attitude toward the practice of oryoki moves from annoyance to appreciation to boredom and back to appreciation

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:21 am
by Quiet Heart
:shrug:
Or naybe when you just laugh and say, "Asking that question is just silly anyhow"?
:geek:

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:23 am
by catmoon
You go to the store, and while picking up a can of sardines from the bottom shelf, your gaze passes over your shoes, resulting in the thought that shoes and sardines aren't all that different, really.

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:33 am
by plwk
ya can't give a straight answer but enjoy the fabulosity of nebulosity...

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:01 pm
by Fruitzilla
You don't post on Dharma-Wheel...

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:35 pm
by Mr. G
Fruitzilla wrote:You don't post on Dharma-Wheel...
The one's that don't are busy posting at the "You know you're a Zen Buddhist modernist" thread on other forums. :tongue:

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:45 pm
by Mr. G
plwk wrote:a Zen Buddhist when...
You're asked "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?"
And you reply "Wu"

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:50 pm
by Mr. G

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:11 pm
by Beatzen
You know you're a zen buddhist when you see the Tao in the idiotic things people say about zen.

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:32 pm
by Astus
Here's a thorough one from Yongming Yanshou's Zongjinglu (tr. by Albert Welter):
I now present ten questions in order to form a framework [to test your understanding].

[1] Do you thoroughly understand seeing [one’s] nature, as if delineating and contemplating phenomenal forms similar to someone like Mañjuśrī?
[2] In everything you do—whether encountering situations or dealing with externals, seeing phenomenal forms or listening to sounds, raising a foot or lowering a foot, opening the eyes or closing the eyes—do you illuminate the implicit truth [ zong ] and comply with Buddhism?
[3] Do you read the teachings of each age and the statements of former patriarchs and masters, listening deeply and unafraid, completely understanding the truth in all of their teachings and not doubting it?
[4] In response to different [types of] difficult questions and all manner of trivial queries, are you able to provide [answers] according to the four kinds of eloquent responses and completely resolve the doubts that others have?
[5] At all times and in all situations, does wisdom shine forth unhindered and does thought after thought pass perfectly, without encountering a single dharma that is able to cause obstruction, or being interrupted for even a single instant?
[6] In all the occasions that present themselves to you in the external realm, whether contrary or agreeable, good or bad, do you resist [the desire to] elude them [on the one hand] and are you always conscious of destroying [any attachment to] them [on the other]?
[7] Within the realm of the mind and its objects comprised of a series of one hundred dharmas, do you get to see the extremely subtle essence-nature and the original point of rising of each and every [dharma], without confusing them with the circumstances of birth and death and the organs of sense and their objects?
[8] Regarding the four types of behavior—walking, standing, sitting, and lying—do you address others respectfully and exercise restraint when replying? And when wearing clothes and eating food, performing and carrying out [tasks], do you understand the true reality of each and every grade [in rank]?
[9] When listening to claims that there are Buddhas or there are no Buddhas, there are sentient beings or there are no sentient beings, do you sometimes applaud them and sometimes refute them, sometimes agree and sometime disagree, with a firm unwavering mind?
[10] When you hear about how all the different kinds of wisdom are able to clearly fathom how nature and form complement each other, how li and shi are unhindered, how nonexistence and existence are one and the same phenomena and do not reflect the origin [of phenomena] itself, and how the thousand sages appear in the world, can you avoid doubting it?

Even if you have not actually attained merits like these, you will never conceive the inclination to trespass or deceive, or form ideas of self-indulgence or satisfaction in one’s knowledge.

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:38 pm
by Jnana
:good:

Leave it to Yongming Yanshou to raise the bar!!!

Re: You know you're...

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:26 pm
by White Lotus
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Re: You know you're a Ch'an Buddhist...

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:00 pm
by Qian Zheng Yi
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time and time again