Podcasts about linji

The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen's basic standpoint and a central source of material for Zen koan practice. Zen practitioners cherish it for its unusual simplicity, directness, and ability to inspire. Linji Yixuan ( died 866 CE) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang dynasty China.

These selections are taken from Sangha Instructions from ancient times and give the flavor of a master wielding a sword to cut through illusions. Sparse and to the point, Linji has no tolerance for superficial approaches and glib comments from students.Read the Journal while listening

Anne Sendo Osho gave this Teisho during the middle day of Spring Sesshin 2025, at Chobo-Ji. This talk explores the importance of recognizing our own inner sage.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - ZMM - 3/9/25 - Everything is in a constant state of becoming, including ourselves. The Buddha said of his realization that this "true self" is not dependent on one's effort. It cannot be created and therefore cannot be destroyed. When the self is freed of all encumbering delusions about the nature of self as being good or bad, pure or impure, then the real form of truth can be known, and one can live freely as "the true person of no rank." (From Master Dogen's 300 Koan Shobogenzo (The True Dharma Eye), Case 147 - Linji's "True Person of No Rank")

Episode 71 of The Art of Aging Mindfully Podcast, dials in a brilliant, classical teaching on Non-Attachment. The koan "When you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" is attributed to the 9th-century Chinese Zen master Linji. Linji was a prominent figure in the Zen tradition, known for his unconventional and direct teaching methods. This particular koan exemplifies his approach, which aimed to jolt students out of their habitual patterns of thought and push them toward direct realization. By presenting paradoxical and provocative statements, Linji sought to help his students transcend intellectual understanding and experience deeper spiritual insight.The significance of this koan lies in its emphasis on severing attachments to spiritual teachers and external representations of enlightenment. It urges practitioners to recognize that true spiritual awakening cannot be found through clinging to teachers, doctrines, or any fixed concepts. Instead, it highlights the importance of self-reliance and personal experience on the spiritual path. By metaphorically "killing" the Buddha, practitioners are encouraged to let go of external dependencies and cultivate an independent, direct experience of enlightenment. This process is essential for achieving true spiritual independence and realizing the ultimate nature of reality.TO SUPPORT THE ART OF AGING MINDFULNESS PODCAST:patreon.com/jaisugrimTo Train with Jai in Yogic Conditioning Longevity Classes:https://theartofagingmindfully.com/online-classes/To get your Viome Full Body Intelligence Kit, with $100 Discount:viomehq.sjv.io/eKnAO1Enter discount code ARTOFAGING TO RECEIVE $110 OFF YOUR VIOME KITEnjoy and Share this informative episode! Have a beautiful Day Everyone!

Baizhang Huaihai (720–814 AD) was a Zen master during the Tang dynasty. A native of Fuzhou, he was a dharma heir of Mazu Daoyi. Baizhang's students included Huangbo, Linji and Puhua. He has been venerated as one of the greatest Chan teachers of the Tang era and even today he remains one of the most recognized Chan teachers of all time. His Zen teachings focused on practicing in the present, independent freedom, individual discovery, and not relying on doctrine, or intellectual comprehension. These extracts have been read from the text: 'Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening' - Teachings of the Zen Master Hui Hai. Rendered into English by John Blofeld Music: Swami Madhuram - 'Sandhya', from the album "Coming Home" by Time for Peace. With thanks to Swami for his gift of beautiful music. Please find more of his music here: https://timeforpeace.bandcamp.com/

Dharma talk by Eran Junryu Vardi Roshi of Eiryu-ji Zen Center in Wyckoff, NJ, USA on 3/10/2024.

2023-12-11 | Depth in Practice | Book of Serenity-Case 13 Linji's Blind Ass by Appamada

A reading of selected excerpts from the Record of Linji. The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese Zen master Linji Yixuan (d. 866), it serves as both an authoritative statement of Zen's basic standpoint and a central source of material for Zen koan practice. Zen practitioners cherish it for its unusual simplicity, directness, and ability to inspire. Linji Yixuan ( died 866 CE) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang dynasty China.

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As religiões abraâmicas têm problemas com o que chamam de “adoração de imagens” ou “ídolos”. O budismo, no entanto, em toda a sua diversidade, parece se dar bem com as representações de budas e bodisatvas -- seja através de uma noção de adoração direta, ou como um lembrete do Buda e de seus ensinamentos. Será que sempre foi assim? Será que o próprio Buda não preferia não ser representado? O que o colonialismo tem a ver com isso? Este podcast também está disponível em formato de vídeo em https://tzal.org/adoracao-de-imagens-no-budismo/ ◦ Aniconism in Buddhism Artigo da wikipedia, em inglês, sobre a questão do vídeo. Susan Huntington é a historiadora mencionada, cujo nome não lembrei ao gravar o vídeo. ◦ Drukpa Kunley Artigo da wikipedia, em inglês, sobre o santo louco tibetano Drukpa Kunley, mencionado no vídeo. ◦ Shit stick Artigo da wikipedia, em inglês, sobre as varetas higiênicas mencionadas no vídeo, inclusive com uma sessão sobre suas menções em compilações consagradas de koans (“O Portão sem Porta” e “O Compêndio de Linji”), como mencionado no vídeo. Para receber informações sobre a produção de Padma Dorje: https://tzal.org/boletim-informativo/ Por favor ajude esse canal: https://tzal.org/patronagem/ Lista completa de conteúdos no canal tendrel, com descrição: https://tzal.org/tendrel-lista-completa-de-videos/ Centros de darma que recomendo https://tzal.org/centros-de-darma-que-recomendo/ Para me ajudar comprando na amazon https://tzal.org/amazon Contribuições e perguntas podem ser feitas por email, que também funciona como chave PIX (conexoesauspiciosas@gmail.com)

How Zen practice deconstructs the self while the Dharma nourishes the Self, with a commentary on the koan “Linji's Blind Donkey” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript The post Zen Destruction and Aspiration appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

  Someone asked, "How about when one makes a hole in the wall in order to steal the neighbor's light?"  Yunmen said, "There it is!"-from Zen Master Yunmen, Urs App, transSupport the show

Im Rinzai Roku, im zehnten Abschnitt der Diskurse, werden die vier Methoden, bzw. Vorgehensweisen, von Meister Rinzi (chin.: Linji) vorgestellt: „Manchmal nehme ich den Menschen weg und nehme die Umgebung nicht weg. Manchmal nehme ich die Umgebung weg und nehme den Menschen nicht weg. Manchmal nehme ich beide weg, sowohl den Menschen als auch die Umgebung. Manchmal nehme ich weder den Menschen noch die Umgebung weg.“ Für Meister Rinzai geht es darum, die Menschen auf ihre unterentwickelte Seite hinzuweisen: die von sich selber Überzeugten und schwerpunktmäßig mit sich selber Beschäftigten werden darauf hingewiesen, auch einmal den Anderen oder auch dem Vogelgesang zuzuhören. Den von ihrem Helfersyndrom Geplagten wird angeraten, auch auf sich selber zu achten. Und dann wird den Schülern angeraten, einerseits für sich selber einzustehen und ihren Weg zu gehen, dabei aber im Kontakt und in Harmonie mit dem Grenzenlosen, mit der Größeren Natur, zu bleiben. Wenn das gelingt, dann können wir uns geklärt im positiven Samadhi in der Welt bewegen. Und auch in der Krisenbewältigung ist ein - auf welche Art und Weise auch immer - gefühlter Kontakt mit dem Grenzenlosen das Mittel um sich aus dem tragischen Gewinner-Verlierer Schema zu befreien.

Today's Dharma Talk includes a reading from “The Record of Linji” –  translation and commentary by Ruth Fuller Sasaki.“I believe that Zen, particularly Rinzai Zen, has a significant role in the present world. Modern people are adrift amid the great confusion and uncertainty of contemporary life. The Linji lu can give us a foundation on which to construct a new and powerful view of human existence.” –Yamada Mumon

Silently dwell in the self, in true suchness abandon conditioning. Open-minded and bright without defilement, simply penetrate and drop off everything. Today is not your first arrival here. Since the ancient home before the empty kalpa, clearly nothing has been obscured. Although you are inherently spirited and splendid, still you must go ahead and enact it. When doing so, immediately display every atom without hiding a speck of dirt. Dry and cool in deep repose, profoundly understand. If your rest is not satisfying and you yearn to go beyond birth and death, there can be no such place. Just burst through and you will discern without thought-dusts, pure without reasons for anxiety. Stepping back with open hands, [giving up everything] , is thoroughly comprehending life and death. Immediately you can sparkle and respond to the world. Merge together with all things. Everywhere is just right. Accordingly we are told that from ancient to modern times all dharmas are not concealed, always apparent and exposed.Hongzhi Zhengjue, Cultivating the Empty Field  Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation master and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young on the background and history of Zen Master LinJi (aka Rinzai, in Japanese), the meaning of his famous phrase "the authentic person," various aspects of nonduality, an unpacking of LinJi's Four-fold Analysis, as well as cessations, the current state of Shinzen's research, using ultrasound to change the brain, and how to equanimize the biggest curveballs life can throw at you. Shinzen Young is an American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant. His systematic approach to categorizing, adapting and teaching meditation, known as Unified Mindfulness, has resulted in collaborations with Harvard Medical School, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of Vermont in the burgeoning field of contemplative neuroscience.https://www.shinzen.org/Contribute to Michael's Patreon or directly to help fund the creation of more of these podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

[The empty field] cannot be cultivated or proven. From the beginning it is altogether complete, undefiled and clear down to the bottom. Where everything is correct and totally sufficient, attain the pure eye that illuminates thoroughly, fulfilling liberation. Enlightenment involves enacting this; stability develops from practicing it. Birth and death originally have no root or stem, appearing and disappearing originally have no defining signs or traces. The primal light, empty and effective, illumines the head top. The primal wisdom, silent but also glorious, responds to conditions. When you reach the truth without middle or edge, cutting off before and after, then you realize one wholeness. Everywhere sense faculties and objects both just happen. The one who sticks out his broad long tongue transmits the inexhaustible lamp, radiates the great light, and performs the great buddha work, from the first not borrowing from others one atom from outside the dharma. Clearly this affair occurs within your own house.-Hongzhi Zhengjue, Cultivating the Empty FieldSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

In this interview I am joined by Loch Kelly M.Div., LCSW, author, meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Effortless Mindfulness Institute. Loch recounts his early mystical experiences, his first encounters with Transcendental Meditation and Zen, and considers the possible influences of past lives on early-life spirituality. Loch presents his effortless awakening approach and reflects on why people still pursue arduous meditation practice paths when more direct paths exist. Loch also discusses whether his style of enlightenment is equivalent to the great masters of the past, details the innovations that differentiate his teaching from his Sutra Mahamudra background, and comments on the interactions between awakening and mental health. … Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep133-glimpses-of-awakening-loch-kelly 
Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast'. … Topics Include: 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - Loch's new app 03:26 - Childhood glimpses and upbringing 12:48 - Studying TM and Zen 16:35 - Past lives and proclivity for spiritual experiences 25:10 - Why do people try so hard to get enlightened? 33:53 - Why do enlightened masters still advocate traditional methods when direct methods exist? 41:59 - What are Loch's innovations? In what ways does his approach move beyond Sutra Mahamudra? 50:49 - Is Loch's awakening equivalent to the Buddha, Milarepa, and Linji? 58:34 - Loch's glimpse teachings 01:00:03 - Does Loch stress test his awakening? 01:08:10 - Glimpsing with psychological material 01:08:56 - The stress test of New York City 01:12:52 - Comments on awakening, mental health, ADHD and neuroscience … To find our more about Loch Kelly, visit: - https://lochkelly.org/em … For more interviews, videos, and more visit: - www.guruviking.com Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James

“To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment. When we lose our balance we die, but at the same time we also develop ourselves, we grow. Whatever we see is changing, losing its balance. The reason everything looks beautiful is because it is out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony.” - Shunryu Suzuki   Kill your idols! Kill the Buddha. In a timely and highly inspiring talk, Emily takes on the case of the late great master Linji's advice to “Kill the Buddha, kill the patriarchs, kill your parents and attain liberation!” It's the great Zen-Punk exhortation to let go of everything you know about what we're doing and who we're doing it for. Who can we have faith in when there is no self and no one outside the self? Who are we ultimately doing any of this for?? Find out here!

It's as fleeting as a cloudIt's as still as a valleyIt's the salt in the waterIt's the dye in colorIt's the mist that soaks your clothes unseenIt's the flower that falls to the earth unheard-StonehouseSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi - Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 09/19/2021 - From The Book of Serenity, Case 13 - Linji's "Blind Ass" - It's important to study the lives of the ancestors and get to know them. Though, who is it we're really getting to know? And what is transmitted down through the ages? Is that karma? This Dharma Discourse was given by Shugen Roshi at the conclusion of a weekend retreat on Ch'an Buddhist History led by Dr. Elizabeth Morrison.

When Yu realises master Linji's "true person of no rank" she leaps beyond convention and societal norms. Text(s): The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women, ed.Florence Caplow and Susan Moon Automated transcript https://otter.ai/u/qhM5PQADJaOGJo_pJqDyazNJWYo

On this Fathers Day, 6/20/2021, Will reads from The Record of Linji (Linji Lu). Linji is the great grandfather of one of the schools of Zen (Chan) and has a message for us today.

A mud buddha can't cross through waterA gold buddha can't cross through a furnaceA wooden buddha can't cross through fireThe real buddha sits withinBlue Cliff Record, Case 96Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

"Zen Battles: Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master Linji" was the book Will mentions in this Dharma Talk about the ninth century Zen Master Linji.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.In this way, rather than relying on your own distinctions,you dwell in the ordinary.This is called illumination.Understanding that abides in the unknowable is realization.And never understanding where it all comes from –that is called inward radiance. -ZhuangziSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

Genjo Marinello Osho gave this Teisho during the third day of Chobo-Ji's Dec. Odayaka. This talk explores "Linji Meets the Old Woman" found in The Hidden Lamp and examines the ten Zen Ox Pictures.

A 43-minute segment on the third door of liberation – aimlessness. The talk takes place on August 17, 2007 during the Stonehill College retreat during the U.S. Tour. The retreat theme is Mindfulness, Fearlessness, and Togetherness and this is part four of a four-part series. Aimlessness You don’t put something in front of you and run after. It is a wonderful practice. It can bring you peace. We have the habit of running after something. Fame. Profit. Wealth. Even enlightenment. People imagine that monastics are running after enlightenment. But that is not the practice. If you have received the Five Mindfulness Trainings, you belong to the lineage of Linji. His teaching is very strong on this aspect of running. Don’t run after what you already are. Stop running. Happiness is right here. In this very moment. Just one step. Peace. Joy. Healing. Enlightenment. Are all in the present moment. This is the teaching of aimlessness.  Are you enlightened already? But how can we make plans for the future? The answer lies in the teaching of aimlessness.  Enlightenment is not something you strive for. The moment you are aware you are breathing in, that is a moment of enlightenment. We also practice to be aware of the present moment. We don’t live in a dream anymore. There is no way to enlightenment. Enlightenment is the way.  To be there for each other. At the breakfast table. There are things we can do so that mindfulness is there. If we organize well, breakfast can be a celebration of life.  So, let us take care of the present moment. The future is contained in the present moment. And let us not lose ourselves in regret about the past.  Nirvana  In the Buddhist tradition they speak of nirvana. Nirvana is the absence of notions. Notions like birth and death. Nirvana is not a place or space located in time. We have a notion of time. That we have birth and death.  We hear the story of the flame.  Pairs of opposites.  Birth and deathBeing and nonbeing Coming and going Sameness and otherness  Sangha building. 

This talk includes information about the origins of the Koan Way, as well as an exploration of a koan by the 9th Century Chan/Zen teacher Linji Yixuan:"There is a True Person of no rank constantly coming in and out through the gates of your face."Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

There is a famous quote in the Zen tradition that says “If you meet the Buddha, kill him”. This quote is attributed to Linji a prominent zen master. What does it mean? How can this teaching help us in our day to day lives as we seek to be less habitually reactive? In this episode, I will discuss this koan and dig deeper to see if we can all apply this teaching to our own lives.

Jack Naneek discusses Linji’s odd advise to his followers to kill the Buddha. He also mentions the way we teach our children to pray, and our uniquely Mormony view of grace. Become a Premium Subscriber: Monthy:  $3 Yearly:  $25  $50  $100  $250 Support the podcast by purchasing from Amazon HERE. The post Mormon Awakenings: Episode 46: Kill The Buddha appeared first on Mormon Discussions Podcasts - Full Lineup.

Jack Naneek discusses Linji’s odd advise to his followers to kill the Buddha. He also mentions the way we teach our children to pray, and our uniquely Mormony view of grace. Become a Premium Subscriber: Monthy:  $3 Yearly:  $25  $50  $100  $250 Support the podcast by purchasing from Amazon HERE. The post Mormon Awakenings: Episode 46: Kill The Buddha appeared first on Mormon Awakenings.

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede from the July/August 2018 sesshin. Commentary on a koan from The Book of Serenity. The post July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Shoyoroku #13, “Linji’s ‘Blind Donkey'” appeared first on Rochester Zen Center.

"Big Idea, Big Stupid, and Big Realization" is Dosho's talk for Sunday Open Zen on March 11, 2018. In the talk, Dosho tells the story of Linji's big realization. If you want to do big realization too, tasting the really and truly big idea of the buddhadharma, you'll have to go through big stupid.

In this 65-minute dharma talk from the New Hamlet of Plum Village, Thay teaches a message on transforming our suffering. The date is Sunday, November 26, 2006 and the sangha is in the Winter Retreat. Dhyana is the Sanskrit word for meditation. In meditation, we have stillness. We have relaxation. We have mindfulness, concentration, insight, joy, and happiness. These virtues can be cultivated. How can we do this? The practice of "leaving behind." This is the first act of meditation. Joy and happiness is born from this practice. Many young people have this aspiration to "leave behind" and want to become a monastic. They have experience joy and happiness. But after two or three years, the joy and happiness are not deep enough to reach down into our blocks of suffering. We have this stillness for a period of time but then the block of suffering will emerge. What is the nature of our suffering? Hidden in the depths of our unconscious. If we can't move into the deeper practice, we begin to blame and point to problems, we then sometimes see monastics leave the community. We have to go home to ourselves and try to recognize our suffering and embrace it. Thay illustrates this teaching through bitter melon. Our natural tendency is to run away of suffering and we don't know the hidden goodness of suffering. Suffering can heal us. We in the Plum Village tradition belong to the School of Linji. We have to use our intelligence, our insight in order to transform our suffering. In Buddhism we have the notion of the three worlds. Desire. Craving. Form. We may leave behind the world of desire but still have mental discourse. We practice stillness. It is made of two elements: vitaka and vijara. Thought and reflective thinking. Thay returns to talking of a monastic who leaves the community and then may wish to return, and this is a problem for all practicing communities. We have to be willing to go deeper, to learn how to preserve our happiness, and transform the pain, anxiety, and deep suffering that is still there in the depth of our consciousness. When suffering is emerging, adapt another attitude. Don’t try to run away from it. This is Thay’s recommendation. Stay where you are and welcome it. How do we work with suffering rooted from injustice? How do we work with suffering rooted from our parents? Bodhicitta. Mind of enlightenment. Beginners mind. Inspired by the desire to practice in order to transform your suffering and help many people who suffer around you. The mind of love. As practitioners, we should maintain this beginners mind because it is a powerful source of energy.

This lecture explore the common threads of the Chan practice in the teachings of Linji (臨濟), Han Shan (寒山), Hsu Yun (Empty Cloud /虛雲) -- presented by Master Sheng Yen's Dharma Heir Gilbert Gutierrez on Friday June 24 2016 at the DDMBA Chicago Chapter as an opening talk for a 3-day group practice retreat.

February 2010 | Desert Rain Retreat | Tucson, AZ At the start of a life with koans, we're in relationship with a Secret Lover, that whispered commentary on things that's always with us. Over time our allegiance shifts and we're more often slipping between the roles of Guest and Host, offering and receiving with others, with the vastness itself. subjects : Linji, Layman Pang, Fayan, sorrow, guest, host, secret lover

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Excerpt:  “We are here to realize the true self.  The implication of that is that we have not been living in our authentic self, but in some false - unreal - persona… and if we are not living in our real self then we are not living in the real world either…  and if the world is false and the self is false, then things are going to happen that are unsustainable because the false cannot survive the test of truth… and because so many on this planet are now living in the false self, we have a false world that is collapsing… you cannot live in that state of hypocrisy without karma hitting you pretty hard….  So everyone is getting lessons in karma nowadays but we are not here to worry about the political issues of the world and their karma… we are here to work out our own karma…  to make sure that we are not secretly killing elephants when we are pledged to protect them… to make sure that if we are Sat Yogis, we are living up to our vows and living a yogic life and living as what Linji - the great Zen master - the great wild Zen master - called the true person – the one true person of no rank.  He said every ego is out to try and get to as high a rank as possible and to try to improve its status in the world and that is all it is really interested in, and there is one true person who doesn’t care about that… who realizes that there is no such thing as rank….  It is interesting that rank has these two meanings.   One is a bad smell, and the other is status….  It is rank if you are interested in rank… but he said there is only one true person of no rank and that everyone else is interested in rank and prestige, status, possessions and power - all of that… but that the one true person is the incarnation of God… the Christ…. Don’t think the Zen masters don’t believe in Christ.  They do, but they have another word for that being...”  Recorded on the evening of, Thursday, April 19, 2012.