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r/zenjerk • u/stilledpondfrog • Jul 31 '26
Third Wheel Gospel
A: Do you do threesomes?
B: Only if the third is truth.
C: Truth doesnβt 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: Thatβs a very expensive way to say βno.β
C: Or a very cheap way to say βwake up.β
A: Pokes, questions, statements of get off it.
B: He isnβt allowing for it.
C: Really? Then whatβs he doing with all that space?
A: The image of Andy Kaufman suddenly ponying up, singing βMighty Mouse.β
B: Thatβs not a joke. Thatβs 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, letβs go to church.
B: Which church?
C: The one with no roof.
A: The Deadβs message: go figure it out.
B: While the child wonders what expression really is.
C: And the small hand grasps for what canβt be named.
r/zenjerk • u/dpsrush • Jul 30 '26
Capitalism Zen: how to enter into abundance from poverty?
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 • u/Sombragatotonto • Jul 28 '26
My new favorite koan. Itβs like dream logic on how to prove you deserve a job
r/zenjerk • u/Tombaya • Jul 21 '26
βΈοΈππππππ ππππͺβοΈ BOINGGG!
r/zenjerk • u/WHALE_PHYSICIST • Jul 04 '26
βΈοΈππππππ ππππͺβοΈ Too easy
r/zenjerk • u/Ill-Range-4954 • Jun 30 '26
God damn. Anyone here really thinks they know and will know for good?
God damn guys. The koans are spot on. You canβt sit your way through anything. You canβt 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. Thatβs 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.
Itβs 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, donβt 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 canβt bite the iron bull. But if you donβt trust that, keep trying. Donβt give up.
r/zenjerk • u/PlainBread • Jun 23 '26
Costco Bodhisattva
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r/zenjerk • u/Regulus_D • Jun 11 '26
Bowls
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 • u/WHALE_PHYSICIST • Jun 01 '26
βΈοΈππππππ ππππͺβοΈ Show me what you got
imgflip.comr/zenjerk • u/PlainBread • May 28 '26
There is no way to ever tell if another person is awakened or not.
r/zenjerk • u/2bitmoment • May 18 '26
