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Zen Buddhism Anonymous 07/5/2009(Thu)11:57:40 No.12957  
Zen asserts, as do other schools in Mahayana Buddhism, that all sentient beings have Buddha-nature, the universal nature of inherent wisdom (Sanskrit prajna) and virtue, and emphasizes that Buddha-nature is nothing other than the nature of the mind itself. The aim of Zen practice is to discover this Buddha-nature within each person, through meditation and mindfulness of daily experiences. Zen practitioners believe that this provides new perspectives and insights on existence, which ultimately lead to enlightenment.

In distinction to many other Buddhist sects, Zen de-emphasizes reliance on religious texts and verbal discourse on metaphysical questions. Zen holds that these things lead the practitioner to seek external answers, rather than searching within themselves for the direct intuitive apperception of Buddha-nature. This search within goes under various terms such as “introspection,” “a backward step,” “turning-about,” or “turning the eye inward.”

In this sense, Zen, as a means to deepen the practice and in contrast to many other religions, could be seen as fiercely anti-philosophical, iconoclastic, anti-prescriptive and anti-theoretical. The importance of Zen's non-reliance on written words is often misunderstood as being against the use of words. However, Zen is deeply rooted in both the scriptural teachings of the Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama and in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought and philosophy. What Zen emphasizes is that the awakening taught by the Buddha came through his meditation practice, not from any words that he read or discovered, and so it is primarily through meditation that others too may awaken to the same insights as the Buddha.
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Anonymous 07/5/2009(Thu)11:59:51 No.12959
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Anonymous 08/5/2009(Fri)12:04:22 No.12972
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These comics are from the book Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness by Tsai Chih Chung.
I have the book but it's in my native language, you can see some pages here:
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Speaks-Tsai-Chih-Chung/dp/0385472579#reader
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Anonymous 08/5/2009(Fri)12:08:28 No.12978
>>12972
I forgot to say that those are comic version of koans.
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Anonymous 08/5/2009(Fri)04:51:08 No.13472
So slavery is ok because slaves only suffer because they are selfish enough to think they deserve more.
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Anonymous 08/5/2009(Fri)03:05:02 No.14087
>>13472
No, but continue thinking.
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Anonymous 08/5/2009(Fri)07:30:06 No.15224
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Sorry, but this is hilarious!
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Anonymous 09/5/2009(Sat)11:17:12 No.16668
>>14087
Sorry, I guess I'm not as intelligent as you. Could you give me some pointers?
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A parrot 09/5/2009(Sat)04:47:13 No.16792
>>16668
I could give you pointers just like a parrot repeat what it hears and then you would repeat them without understanding them.
Zen Buddhism is about think by yourself instead of follow what is written in a piece of paper.

Sorry for my english, I'm not very intteligent, I'm just a parrot.

A scholar went to see a zen named Nanin about zen.
Nanin treated his guest to a cup of tea.
He poured the tea into a cup, and kept pouring even when cup was full.
Master that's enough it's full!
You are just like this cup- full of your own thoughts and ideas. If you don't first empty yourself, how can I teach you about zen?
If your mind is filled with your own prejudices, the truth that others speak can't be heard. When engaging in conversation,
most people are in a hurry to express their own opinion, and as a result, they don't hear anything but the sound of their own voices.
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Anonymous 10/5/2009(Sun)10:09:49 No.17716
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Sorry, this is not the place for your erotic fantasies

Edited at 10/5/2009(Sun)04:22:14
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Anonymous 10/5/2009(Sun)07:24:31 No.17859
>>17716
Hey, I spent 3 minutes typing that out. At least put it back minus the bit about urination.
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Anonymous ## ADMIN ## 10/5/2009(Sun)08:03:31 No.17870
>>17859
Sorry, I deleted the original one.

You can post your erotic stories in an appropriate chan and post the link here next time. I will not delete links unless they are illegal, malware or spam...
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Anonymous 10/5/2009(Sun)08:33:40 No.17896
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chinese thinker
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Anonymous 10/5/2009(Sun)08:36:40 No.17897
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No one knows much about its author, Reepah Gud Wan, who lived before the 10th century in China and Japan, except that he was a legitimate Buddhist monk who tired of the inability of his students to grasp the essence of his teaching. In order to shake them up, he introduced the Zen of Farting, expecting his students to see the joke, laugh at it, and then understand his Buddhist teachings better. Unfortunately, they failed to get the joke and this was the result.
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Quillsh Hume 03/11/2009(Tue)08:14:26 No.348207
>>17897
page six, paragraph 2, you lost the game.

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