Buddhism Blue Cliff Records Quiz

Buddhism Blue Cliff Records Quiz For Students And Children

Buddhism Blue Cliff Records Quiz For Students And Children: A study of Koans is the focus in this quiz. I shall present a Koan and you try to determine the pertinent answer to the ancient Chinese-Japanese puzzles of the Zen Buddhists.

Quiz: Buddhism Blue Cliff Records

  1. Question 1 of 10

    1.

    ‘When it is not present in the consciousness and it is not present in phenomenon…what is IT?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – An upsided statement

      A Koan is a tangential case, derived from the Chinese word: kung an. It was engendered by Hsueh Tou and Yung Wu, a school of Chan Buddhism (960-1024 AD), and disseminated to the Rinzai schools of Japan.

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  2. Question 2 of 10

    2.

    What ought to be the reply to Hakuin’s statement here: ‘Look, are my eyebrows still there? Asking if his eyebrows have fallen out, he hangs a sheep’s head but sells dog-meat’. Your reply..?

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – Isn’t that annoying?

      Hakuin was the most famous Japanese Zen Monk and produced 500 pages of commentary on the ‘Blue Cliff Records’.

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  3. Question 3 of 10

    3.

    ‘Cease, desist and an ____ tree blossoms.’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – Iron

      A quote by the venerable Nansen…it follows as thus: ‘Has this happened to anyone? A clever lad loses his profits, even if uninhibited one cannot escape being taken in tow. But tell me, where is the mix-up?’

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  4. Question 4 of 10

    4.

    ‘What does the sky say? The four seasons go there. What does the earth say? Myriad beings are born there. The substance can be seen in the operation of the 4 seasons, the action can be seen in the birth of myriad beings, but where can a Zen practitioner be seen? Detached from speech and activity can you discern?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – Not contained the six

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  5. Question 5 of 10

    5.

    ‘What is concentration on every atom?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – Food in the bowl, water in the pail

      A very famous saying by Ummon, from the ‘Flower Ornament Scriptures’…it means to have a correct reception of who we are and not grasping or attaching to the illusory nature of the external world…

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  6. Question 6 of 10

    6.

    ‘With no place to sink your teeth, the seal of Zen masters are like the works of an iron ox. Having passed through a bramble of thorns, they are are like a snowflake in a raging furnace…leaving aside piercing and penetrating on level ground for now, when you no longer fall into conditions, then what?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – sitting in Nansen’s circle

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  7. Question 7 of 10

    7.

    ‘How would you speak with your mouth shut?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – Can you?

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  8. Question 8 of 10

    8.

    ‘What is the talk beyond Buddhas and Zen masters called?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – A piece of cake

      What is the transcendental realm called? I am not sure if Ummon’s reply here is even adequate.

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  9. Question 9 of 10

    9.

    ‘Medicine and disease quell each other. The whole earth is medicine, what is your self?’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – universe

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  10. Question 10 of 10

    10.

    ‘What is the sound of one hand clapping’

    • Correct

    • Wrong — Correct Answer – anything

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