An observation

[wmjbyatt]

I find it fitting that nothing seems to get posted in this forum.

 

[Engyo]

We don't seem to have many Zen practitioners posting on RF.

 

[Willamena]

We're posting emptiness. :slap:

 

[The Rev]

I am new to Buddhism, but the group I joined is Ch'an, so I will probably have something to contribute here from time to time.
:namaste

 

[koan]

Who are you?

 

[The Rev]

Who are you?

In the Zen sense? Or in the usual, illusory sense?

Hmmm... I suppose, either way, I'm the new guy.

:namaste

 

[wmjbyatt]

It would've been more believable if you just stuck your sandals on your head.

 

[koan]

What about the dance to go with it?

 

[wmjbyatt]

What about the dance to go with it?

That would've been hard to see from here, unless The Rev went through the effort of videotaping, uploading to YouTube, and then linking, which seems excessive.

 

[The Rev]

It would've been more believable if you just stuck your sandals on your head.

I don't understand. Am I supposed to?
:namaste

 

[wmjbyatt]

There's a koan where an old-school Zen master stuck his sandals on his head. The nonsense of it, according to many teishos, manifests his perfect realization, where he exists in a perpetual state of no-mind.

EDIT: I guess it would make sense to provide a link to the koan: http://www.ordinarymind.com/html/kill_the_cat.html

 

[doppelganger]

Who are you?

Who wants to know?

 

[Storm]

I find it fitting that nothing seems to get posted in this forum.

I hadn't thought of it, but... :biglaugh:

 

[koan]

doppleganger, consider yourself hit 30 times with a stick!

 

[koan]

The Rev, It's part of the Koan, if you don't understand, then you don't get the koan. Unless of course it's not in the version you read.

 

[The Rev]

I've never heard that koan. I'm fairly new to Ch'an, and I'm not even sure we include koans like Japanese Zen. Thanks for the explanation, tho.
:namaste

 

[wmjbyatt]

I've never heard that koan. I'm fairly new to Ch'an, and I'm not even sure we include koans like Japanese Zen. Thanks for the explanation, tho.
:namaste

There are always differences among teachers. Plenty of Zen teachers don't use koans, and I'm sure plenty of Ch'an teachers do.

 

[koan]

In Chinese (Cha'n) they are called Gong an. And the one mentioned is through the lin-chi line of Cha'n

 

[SageTree]

**bring up forum not getting used.... gets lots of use**

 

[Secret Chief]

Occasional bump.