#Post(s) in Question

Post under discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hkmjir/koans_the_record_of_winners/

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# What did we discuss?

Records of winners?

What is a koan? Which koans matter?

Conversation about what?

What is conversation? Explicitly public vs explicitly private.

Zen goals vs church goals.

Judging people by their own standards not someone else's.

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hinlqv/zhaozhou_avoiding_his_birth_family_intimacy/

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was zhaozhou talking about his family? cousins? he was 70?

was zhaozhou referencing his old teacher?

seeing one time is a big zen theme

net of love is a sex sutra?

who is hakamaya and what's wrong with academia

western buddhist academia as "mostly 1960's" and not "mostly buddhist"

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#Post(s) in Question

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/1hb3cec/zen_for_dingbats_wumens_gate_case_7_zhaozhous/

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What does "wash your bowl" mean?

Educated in the record - not the norm in Zen, but the norm everywhere else.

What does the word "everyday" even mean?

Fun with "overly vague" terms

If:then statement as instruction

Triangulating Interpretation: Three Cases by that Master. Three discussions of the Case by other Masters.

Topicalism in Zen and Art History: It doesn't mean that because you feel it does

Is "caring" the same in protestant cultures as it is in Zen communes?

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