Bodhisattvas, what do they do for a living ?
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From an [earlier exchange] (https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/ghcx4h/bodhidharmas_house_in_shambles/fqaktyz/) as well various non-translations that have been passed off as "Zen Masters advocate that people meditate on a word"
Earlier incarnations of this particularly weak-sauce fraud include claiming words like "tao, mu!, prajna, koan" are somehow ineffable and untranslatable(except by their Priests) and that rendering them as foreign words instead of their English equivalents is in no way done to advance reliance on those Priests as communicators-of-meaning and that using untranslated foreign words in print media is not an age old marketing gimmick.
To get everyone up to speed on this current iteration, there are various Buddhist churches fraudulently advertising themselves as Zen who believe that Zen Masters secretly taught people to "stare at sayings" or "meditate on questions that may or may not have ever even been said by Zen Masters" including famous not-Zen stuff like:
>"What is the sound of one hand?"
>“What is it?”
>"Who is dragging this corpse around?”
>"What is this?"
>“What is Mu?”
This religious practice is advertised as:
>"an advanced practice for those of particular talent, or those who had already advanced through other practices first."
>"a practice that leads to the very limits of speech and acts as a purification device."
>Based in the Zen teachings of various Zen Masters including, most famously, Dahui of Shobogenzo fame.
The fraud is a convoluted mess, but here's the what I got for Zen Masters that advocate "a practice that leads to the very limits of speech and acts as a purification device." for "students of a particular talent; having advanced through other stages":
>. . .
Zen Masters that specifically reject "a practice that leads to the very limits of speech and acts as a purification device" that is based on "staring at sayings" and/or contemplation of the above "questions".
>Zhaozhou
>Yunmen
>Foyan
>Linji
>Yingan
And more!
Here's the real kicker, huatou(話頭) is super easily translated word by every dictionary ever that wasn't put together under the "guidance" of fringe Buddhists trying to poison the well of secular scholarship. Some possible working definitions:
>"Thread of conversation" -Pleco Basic Chinese-English Dictionary
>"Thread of discourse" Oxford Chinese-English Dictionary
>"Subject" CEDICT
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... keep reading on reddit ➡My practice for three years now is investigating the question of "What is this?" making sure to keep the question in my guts and not my head. Recently however I feel like the practice is causing anxiety in me.
Over the past month, I've had two experience where the question appears to me but the effect is this deep uneasy unreality for a lack of a better term. This coupled with the feeling of wanting to throw up is not a fun feeling and I've been backing off. Recently I've switched to mantra practice because it is a little scary.
Normally I'd ask my teacher but scheduling makes it impossible to see her for some time. If anybody has an insight into the practice or these experiences I'd love to hear from you.
Hsu Yun said of practicing Hua Tou:
The important thing is to stick to Hua Tou at all times, when walking, lying, or standing. From morning to night observing Hua Tou vividly and clearly, until it appears in your mind like the autumn moon reflected limpidly in quiet water. If you practice this way, you can be assured of reaching the state of Enlightenment.
In meditation, if you feel sleepy, you may open your eyes widely and straighten your back; you will then feel fresher and more alert than before. When working on the Hua Tou, you should be neither too subtle nor too loose. If you are too subtle you may feel very serene and comfortable, but you are apt to lose the Hua Tou. The consequence will then be that you will fall into the ‘dead emptiness’. Right in the state of serenity, if you do not lose the Hua Tou, you may then be able to progress further than the top of the hundred-foot pole you have already ascended. If you are too loose, too many errant thoughts will attack you. You will then find it difficult to subdue them. In short, the Zen practitioner should be well adjusted, neither too tight nor too loose; in the looseness there should be tightness, and in the tightness there should be looseness.[
I see it all the time on this sub. Posting of the same gong-an cases from Mumon, or other form of mind tricks, by earlier or later Chan- , Son- or Zen-masters throughout history and most here scratch their heads, as they present long answers of what these masters really meant.
It is amusing at best, yet I was once there myself, so I know how slippery that sloap can be once you tread on it.
Merely by lifting my finger towards your field of vision, I have presented the solution in a very elegant way.
To the knowing, it presents, and states clearly, the dynamic, animating principle of the Buddha Mind, that initself is superlogical eg the essential Gong-an Hua tou (korean Hwadu) tool that penetrates the riddle of the Gong-an (koan).
It is, as Bodhidharma stated when standing before the Emperor, imperceptible. Later on when the Huatou practise was invented the imperceptible became the pre-word (Hua tou also referred to as word-head) to each case, found in each students Buddha nature instanteuously accessible.
That is, if they (monks) were to look there, while meditating on the gong while sweeping the floor or doing other form of chores.
According to the Chinese Zen master Dahui Zonggao Hua Tou is also a form of meditation that "can be carried out by laymen in the midst of their daily activities
The task of the superior student of Zen was then, and still is today, to basically search, find and fuse one-pointedly (BiGuan) his or hers mind with this Buddha nature and hence experience its liberating light or One Mind that frees anyone in its reality from the shackles of birth and death. All Chan Masters pointed towards this, directly calling it a Mind to Mind transmission. This is the best way to describe what Kensho really is about.
To you whom still are aroused and caught, like a fly is by and to dung (your dialectical monkey mind), you are basically trying to solve something that demands a clear severing from the dialectical mind .eg "the cut off thought" (which is a bad translation from the original suggestion).
Try your present mind on this little Mind riddle;
If you ask, how can you know?
If you know, how can you ask?
Can you see your monkey mind running back and forth endlessly (if allowed)? Trying to cut up (in order to find a divisible structure) the riddle, trying to see the slightest semantic differences in what is cut up? If the same mind is a
... keep reading on reddit ➡For a while I have been doing standard attentional training via watching the breath at the rims of the nostrils. However, the Hwadu or Hua-Tou method has piqued my interest. Yesterday I took my typical cold shower, while at the same time repeating to myself, "who is moving this body," and "what is this." I repeatedly uttered these phrases silently to myself, mouthing the words, and asking with earnest without conceptualizing or manipulating thoughts to arrive at a rational conclusion. I just went in with the mind of a toddler, and persistently uttered these phrases. I then began to focus on "who" was asking these questions, and then everything became effortless in my movements and in my activities around the house. I felt like I was at a distance from all the happenings, just watching this body do its thing without interference. What was so interesting to me was the fact that thoughts, body sensations, even self-talk, etc., all still occurred, but it was occurring all on its own without the need for interference, like I was way back somewhere tucked away from everything in a safe space just observing. Even the sensation of willing, of willfully moving my arms, which I typically take to be something of "my" doing as opposed to my heart beating, just happens on its own. At any rate, has anyone else tinkered with Hwadu, or any other Zen-type direct methods?
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你想不用补兵控线么？
你想不用插眼么？
你想不用连招么？
你想不管控蓝么？
你想不理对面强控套路么？
你想不回城照样回血么？
你想不出装照样肆意输出么？
如果你中意这些休闲优势，还请继续往下看。
(求置顶，直到不再继续更新；本板流量似乎并不大，应该不会有太大影响--讲真，我百度十四年直至封号，应该是从未申精求置顶)
效法梁羽生一把，插播自家广告：末尾有其他关怀包，只是远没有这么离谱。）
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其实我一直是主蒙多的，但前些年游戏（相对）吃操作，没有这么贴心的符文和神话装，所以只能混人机。
但是我的核心思路不同。
按照罗汉的说法，一个肉得一批的坦克终结者、（阶段性）免疫硬控的（软）控大佬、无蓝4秒冷却1000距离骚扰的网瘾治疗专家，当然是人见人怕。
但这个版本出防御装基本上是死路一条，神裂，暮刃（非歧义），意念墙之主，哪个不是逮着血牛狂暴鸿儒。
更何况跟同样是4秒冷却的冰拳被动比起来，Q隔着1000距离造成当前生命30%的伤害还免费，>!俗称Far ♂ Q!<，压出经验区。
Q对野有上限但相当高，可以把所有辅助甚至大多数前期ADC爆出翔。这是打小龙时的一大助力，配合惩戒基本包揽龙魂，不然就甩锅给打野。
然后...Q对兵线，包括超级兵，没有上限。再考虑到超级兵的魔抗是-30...后期守家大佬，而且越往后越有成为巨佬的倾向。所以，在塔防这一块，我作为一个博士，只服海默教授。
因为Q的射程是1000，这么远的距离，前期连螳螂、狮子狗都跳不过来，也就是说打野来了也往往无功而返，甚至会塔外送菜。
最后...Q中了之后有菜刀入肉的音效，一级不论是骚扰对方还是抵抗骚扰，别人的眼600距离90秒冷却，我的Q1000距离Q4秒冷却，所以...诸君，我不喜欢插眼。
因此Q是我们的灵魂技能，我甚至会三级点Q；一切的一切，包括符文，包括装备，都为Q服务。
被动回血免控，让我们更持续、更频繁地在线上Q人。如果遇到莫甘娜甚或是机lao器yin人bi，下路对狙我们丝毫不虚，因为我们被控了，我们免控了。对方消耗蓝量而且进入10秒甚至更久的冷却，而我们已然磨刀霍霍，因为我们是4秒冷却。因为是纯血量比没有加成，我们出双防符文照样刀刀入肉，但对方全攻符文也未必能打得我们很疼，除非是豹shu女；当然，按照她那飞行速度...我手脑双残还是星际玩家（并不是；真要玩分分钟被打爆），但我不瞎。
W从日炎之力改成了十万伏特，可以回（时效内失去的）血而且跟最大生命值互动。不错的技能，就是前期比例比较低。即将短兵相接时打开，末尾自动引爆。我不建议因为这个技能主动索战：杨永信总不会亲自束缚、亲自按键吧？
E：平砍重置，打死小兵则能击退造成二度伤害。操作好的玩家可以用这一招单cai刀破阵，对方躲在兵线后面也不顶用。当然，这是手脑双残关怀包，不需要擅用。
R：兴奋剂，天下任我行，虽三黑吾往的底气。
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红眼： 因为有Q所以不用插眼，那就插对方的眼。
多兰盾：中单专用。
镰刀：我，Q，打钱>!打完之后就可以
... keep reading on reddit ➡Fundamentally what is your opinion on what experiences are?
r/Zen translation project: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/xutangemptyhall ...Now with links to every post on the topic!
Status update: The translation Number 9 got a second look through... still working on it.
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舉。南泉示眾。王老師賣身去也。還有人買麼。時有僧出云。某甲買泉。云。不作貴。不作賤。作麼生買。僧無對。
代云。若有人看事。某也不辭。
Hoffman:
Master Nanquan said, "If I were to go and sell myself, would there be people to buy me?" At that a monk stepped out and said, "I would buy." Nanquan said, "How would you buy me if you were to pay neither too much nor too little?" The monk was dumbfounded.
MASTER Xutang
If there is someone who would take it upon himself, I too will not hold back.
Reddit trans:
Nanquan, speaking at a public assembly, said, " 'Teacher Wang' [Nanquan] is selling his body away—what people will buy?"
At that time a monk rose and said, "[This] someone will buy [Nan]quan."
[Nanquan] said, "It is not expensive, it is not inexpensive—with what will you buy?"
The monk had no reply.
Xutang: “If it seems someone is there, examine closely. This matter is not in words”
Notes: "Teacher Wang" is Nanquan
What's at stake?
(I'm going to start including these in order to combine the translation with the interpretation, in case people are more into practice than translation)
The worth of a Buddha is a very contentious topic? Is Nanquan a Buddha? What would it mean to pay "too much" for an ordinary person?
Bodhidharma's "nothing holy" continues to hound and torment people who can't afford to buy Buddha Nanquan.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Zhen qing xiang cao yuan guang kuo ceng ceng feng yu bu neng zu ge zong you yun kai ri chu shi hou wan zhang yang guang zhao yao ni wo zhen qing xiang mei hua kai guo leng leng bing xue bu neng yan mo jiu zai zui leng zhi tou zhan fang kan jian chun tian zou xiang ni wo xue hua pia piao bei feng xia xiao tian di yi pian cang mang yi jian han mei ao li xue zhong zhi wei yi ren piao xiang ai wo suo ai wu yuan wu hui ci qing chang lie xin jian xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao tian di yi pian cang mang yi jian han mei ao li xue zhong zhi wei yi ren piao xiang ai wo suo ai wu yuan wu hui ci qing change liu xin jian
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
Mentos
(I will see myself out)
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Said if she ever hosts a gender reveal party, when it comes time to pop the balloon she'll spray everyone with water.
Gender is fluid.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
But let me give it a shot.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
He’s the new temp.
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Amy
