Empty Valley Collection, 1st Excerpt: /r/Zen
Found out about Linquan Conglun's Empty Valley Collection a few months back and decided to check it out, it's the long awaited Book of Serenity sequel everyone has been asking for but no one knew one of his Dharma heirs already wrote. Linquan commenting on Touzi commenting on Zen Cases with plenty of gossip and name-dropping to keep everyone's mouth blabbing during these socially isolating times of ours.
Cleary got around to translating half of it, got bored, decided to throw in the towel, but ended up publishing it anyway as kindle exclusive. ~$3.00~
Cleary, as usual, doesn't give us a history of the text or inform us where he dug this up. I'm going with "proprietary trade secret" on this one.
Excerpt from Case Five
Linquan said, "Once you've entered a Zen community, joining their company, you willingly accept twists and turns over and over and over again; the instant you turn your light around, your mind opens up, just as if you've always realized it. It's just that 'the road you've always traveled on gets confused when you meet people talking about it.'
Linquan kindly wrote the billboard for the r/Zen sidebar 800 years ago and we've got loads of free real estate to boot once we bulldoze the links to unrelated subreddits, a defunct IRC(What is this 2008??), and advice from an ex-mod to consult your local church discussing Zen.
Really though, Zen Masters' 'We don't have anything to give you' has never been a marketing coup by any stretch of the imagination... but regardless, selling snake-oil for peoples vertebral subluxations isn't what got this family famous.
Who's got some quotes plaster on the sidebar?
Zen is stubborn at best and at worst, a jerk.
Wrong
ok.
once we bulldoze the links to unrelated subreddits, a defunct IRC(What is this 2008??), and advice from an ex-mod to consult your local church discussing Zen.
The lethargy of this sub's moderators is still frustratingly baffling to me.
Despite the fact I think this post is excellent in almost every way, the one thing that really sticks out to me is it seems you've picked up yet another book when I'm not really sure you've quite the finished the other ones that you've started.
What if you don't travel a road?