Zen Buddhism Discussion Forum - Topic: The Need To Partake In Idle And Unessential Conversation

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A monk asked the Chinese Ch'an master Chien Paling:
-What is the difference between the meaning of the Sutras and that of the Patriarch?
The master replied:
-When it is cold, hen would go up on a tree and duck down to water. more...

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→→→→		TOPIC: THE NEED TO PARTAKE IN IDLE AND UNESSENTIAL CONVERSATION
		Posted on Mar.17.2013 @ 03:40PM EDT by Rickytone The need to partake in idle and unessential conversation becomes logical if one is to interact with some members of modern society. It seems ultimately useless to communicate at all less a beneficial end is attained yet events rarely develop where a need to speak is caused by the need for insight in the average environment of experience. The topic for discussion then is: If zen is the soup is conversation the can opener and the mind the can?
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Reply from leoj99 Mar.17.2013 05:32PM EDT		Well Zen is not a soup. So it is not canned. And it is not mind either..
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Reply from Rickytone Mar.17.2013 05:44PM EDT		indeed even soup is not soup but a collection ingredients label thus and a can is merely a material formed in a way that provides a function and in the case of the can the function being containment so given these elaborations
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Reply from football Mar.22.2013 02:34PM EDT →Email football		You're like a closed box Rickytone but I like you.
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