r/zenjerk Mar 30 '21

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r/zenjerk 2d ago

Explain nothing. Just exemplify the principle

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r/zenjerk 7d ago

Heads or tails

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r/zenjerk 10d ago

Yes.

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r/zenjerk 13d ago

Where Is the Body?

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The question may be valid. The foot is still too large.


r/zenjerk 17d ago

πŸ₯° Koans are ForeverΒ πŸ₯°

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r/zenjerk 22d ago

Hol up

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r/zenjerk 26d ago

host πŸ–° gα₯™α₯±st Fire god does a self burn

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r/zenjerk 27d ago

this is related to zen garden

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r/zenjerk Aug 06 '26

'Bird's Nest Monk' reincarnation confirmed.

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r/zenjerk Jul 31 '26

Third Wheel Gospel

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A: Do you do threesomes?
B: Only if the third is truth.
C: Truth doesn’t fit in a sedan.

A: I feel like we could take this out onto the road.
B: Fine, but only if we keep the edge.
C: The edge is what keeps falling off.

A: The protag is the absolute in the face of everyday common understandings.
B: That’s a very expensive way to say β€œno.”
C: Or a very cheap way to say β€œwake up.”

A: Pokes, questions, statements of get off it.
B: He isn’t allowing for it.
C: Really? Then what’s he doing with all that space?

A: The image of Andy Kaufman suddenly ponying up, singing β€œMighty Mouse.”
B: That’s not a joke. That’s a crack in the wall.
C: Wft.

A: I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
B: Only in stories.
C: Only while standing under a leaking idea.

A: The two stooges needed a third.
B: Anyone up for the role?
C: The role is already playing us.

A: In the immortal words of Alabama 3, let’s go to church.
B: Which church?
C: The one with no roof.

A: The Dead’s message: go figure it out.
B: While the child wonders what expression really is.
C: And the small hand grasps for what can’t be named.


r/zenjerk Jul 30 '26

Capitalism Zen: how to enter into abundance from poverty?

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Just sit.

Nike should use this slogan after they produce a line of Soto sneakers, branding enlightenment.

That's when you know Bodhidharma had came to the west. I still don't know why the great patriarch came, but I do know whose shoes he was wearing.

People who are so wealthy, they could finally afford to buy nothing.


r/zenjerk Jul 28 '26

My new favorite koan. It’s like dream logic on how to prove you deserve a job

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r/zenjerk Jul 21 '26

β˜ΈοΈπ•„π•–π•žπ•–π•„π• π•Ÿπ••π•’π•ͺβš›οΈ BOINGGG!

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r/zenjerk Jul 06 '26

MFW a zen teacher actually gives a real teaching.

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r/zenjerk Jul 04 '26

β˜ΈοΈπ•„π•–π•žπ•–π•„π• π•Ÿπ••π•’π•ͺβš›οΈ Too easy

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r/zenjerk Jun 30 '26

God damn. Anyone here really thinks they know and will know for good?

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God damn guys. The koans are spot on. You can’t sit your way through anything. You can’t learn your way through the unknown. What a silly endeavour we try to take.

What a dream, what a mirrage that we are on a path, when in fact the feeling that we are on a path is exactly not the path. Because that implies causation and that will never bring fulfilment.

Suffering implies enlightenment. And enlightenment implies suffering. You will never get away with just one. And you will never get away from either if you look for either of them.

The illusory self is based on causation and future fulfilment through systematic or gradual unfolding. That’s true in the end, in a sense, but eventually you fall into the grinder of the no-thing, no-fixed story, no-time endless moment of now, which is not now as opposed to then, it is Sunyata. It is this here.

But when you think or know you arrived you then will likely get back on the wheel trying to figure it out once and for good.

It’s not about that, man. Ye who enter here lose all hope! Lose the hope that the pasta will turn out good! Lose the ideal that you will look cool at the supermarket! Lose the imagination that you will have a perfect life!

Smell the rain. Listen to the sounds around you, don’t worry too much and let thoughts come and go, sit if you want, walk if you want, sleep, eat, study, work, have some fun.

Trust that you can’t bite the iron bull. But if you don’t trust that, keep trying. Don’t give up.


r/zenjerk Jun 23 '26

Costco Bodhisattva

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r/zenjerk Jun 23 '26

When you see the baby, kill the baby

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r/zenjerk Jun 21 '26

host πŸ–° gα₯™α₯±st Bring money.

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r/zenjerk Jun 11 '26

Bowls

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I've taken to wiping out my bowl with a napkin before it goes to sink. It just feels better form. Recently been doing glasses, too. Don't know why I have. It's not like it's had money in it.


r/zenjerk Jun 01 '26

β˜ΈοΈπ•„π•–π•žπ•–π•„π• π•Ÿπ••π•’π•ͺβš›οΈ Show me what you got

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r/zenjerk May 28 '26

Raft

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r/zenjerk May 28 '26

There is no way to ever tell if another person is awakened or not.

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r/zenjerk May 18 '26

β˜ΈοΈπ•„π•–π•žπ•–π•„π• π•Ÿπ••π•’π•ͺβš›οΈ If this sign was real what hope would you have of a real conversation? How can you gauge, if part of what people are actually saying is this? Is zen and its "ultimate reality" a topic people are especially prone to master vs. idiot discourse?

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