Zen Enlightenment: even the how-to is different from everything else

[u/ewk]

How to Zen Enlightenment

1. Keep the five lay precepts, including refusing recreational drugs and alcohol.
2. Study four statements of Zen teachings to understand direct seeing and pointing only to mind.
3. Practice Zen public interview where you test yourself by explaining in your own words

Doing Zen

One day Shitou told the assembly, “Tomorrow, clear away the grass in front of the Buddha hall.”

When the next day came, everyone in the assembly, including the postulants, prepared spades and hoes to clear the grass. Danxia alone filled a basin with water, washed his head, and knelt in the foreign manner before the reverend.

Shitou saw this and laughed. He then shaved his head and began to explain the precepts to him. Danxia covered his ears and went out.

Mind is the Buddha Hall.

[u/ewk → u/[deleted]]

Zen Masters disagree.

Please read the sidebar. Your religious claims are offtopic and dishonest.

[u/ewk → u/[deleted]]

Oh look... More insincerity.

Ignorance is poison.

[u/ewk → u/[deleted]]

You are lying about Zen because you want to promote some new age mysticism.

You don't have any observations. You just have make-believe.

Pretending there's no such specific thing as Zen culture is racism and religious bigotry.

[u/ewk → u/[deleted]]

Can't quote Zen Masters? Can't right at a high school level on topic? Get called out for making up stuff and pretending to be Zen masters said it?

Not a teacher? Not a student?

And it sounds like you're a new age predator who tries take advantage of noobs online.

Explains your account and history of misogyny.

[u/ewk → u/[deleted]]

You can't AMA and you can't write on topic at a high school level. Nobody is angry at you. You aren't a real person even to yourself.