I post koan, you answer
A koan is a short story about the interaction between zen masters and their disciples, that's usually not easy to understand.
Some time ago I posted out of the gateless gate by wumen, this time we will use the blue cliff record by yuanwu.
I'll have to leave out the commentary though, since yuanwu talked alot more than wumen and the comments are just too long.
Let's start easy.
This is Case 52: Chao Chou Lets Asses Cross, Lets Horses Cross
A monk asked Chao Chou, "For a long time I've heard of the
stone bridge of Chao Chou, but now that I've come here I just
see a simple log bridge."
Chou said, "You just see the log bridge; you don't see the
stone bridge."
The monk said, "What is the stone bridge?"
Chou said, "It lets asses cross, it lets horses cross."
Chao Chou was a zen master who has pretty famous for putting sandals on his head, but also for telling monks to eat their rice and clean their bowls.
So, What is the stone bridge /his/? Chao Chou already said it all.
Some background of Chao Chou's lineage in pic related.
Chao Chou is also written as Zhaozhou or Joshu.
Also noteworthy is Linji, (jap. Rinzai) who basically founded modern Rinzai zen, also modern guys deviate a lot from his teachings.
A log bridge is as good as a stone bridge for letting animals cross?
>>1141787
Is that a question or your try at answering?
Some more background:
Zen masters were often named after the places where they lived.
Since the masters names often had an interesting meaning or funny titles, these koans sometimes use these meanings as puns.
E.g. Huang Po was named after Mount Huang Po, the mountain where his monastery was.
I'd assume Chao Chou was a town or at least the name of some place known for it's awesome stone bridge.
The monk is obviously not talking about that bridge though, but using it as a metaphor.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1141364
Money from banks.
>>1141374
I've never seen one started about this guy, and he certainly has a lot of problems.
>>1141364
A stroke I think.
What's the dumbest history question you've ever heard?
>>1135998
>Why is Communism bad?
>>1135998
>were the guys who built the pyramids communist?
>Why do you deny the Egyptians were black? They were from AFRICA!
How the absolute fuck is Chinese history so ridiculously poorly documented?
What would be considered, in terms of European magnitude a huge travesty, has an entire 3 paragraphs detailing it on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1642_Yellow_River_flood
If Mao's communists supposedly destroyed large amounts of historical documents, how come Russian history is still relatively well-documented post-communism?
Pic unrelated
>>1134475
Because no one wants to read their languages
There is a lot of attention paid to Chinese history, one wikipedia article doesn't prove there isn't. Another explanation could be that people just find floods boring while things like this are more interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bei
I think you're looking for reasons to be offended. I think the problem is you lack masculinity which is a typical problem among asian males and this is what makes you feel so anxious. Try to relax, go to the gym and start lifting.
Because they are still rewriting their history to fit the Party's narrative. All works must are therefore subject to the Party's discretion.
If they teach actual history, they will be a bane to the One China policy.
ITT, discuss, practice, etc, aspects of classical Latin. OP is a latin student in highschool who plans on acquiring a teaching certificate and a Latin degree. Ask me anything as well. Discuss poems and quotes and grammar if you wish. Discuss books and stuff, too.
How in the fuck does one single person write something as massive and beautiful as this?
>>1143592
OP here. I have this book! Thanks for posting. It's annotated and I'm gonna translate it this summer probably along with De agri cultura. Pic related.
>>1143096
Bought it for the Grand Kids...
So any idea when the idea of treating people poorly based on their ethnic group really took off? I figure that a 'moor' would not be treated well in England back in the middle ages but then again neither would a Scotsman. I was just wondering at what point people started to compartmentalize ethnic groups into who was superior and inferior?
It predates humanity if you believe in the origin of species by method of natural selection.
Otherwise, read your favorite religious text to find out.
>>1147513
Ethnic group? Since the dawn of history bro, he doesn't praise the same god the way I do? He looks a lil differents, eats different things or talks in gibberish? Kill him, maim him or at least loath him. That shit is ingrained in the human mind, from the times we lived in little tribes. Heck, the filthy people than live in the other side of the city? Fuck them, maim them, make them suffer.
>>1147528
S H I T P O S T I N G should be a bannable offense.
>Meanwhile in antiquity /his/......
Why do the flying birds, upon crossing the sun's course, appear to fly behind it rather than before it ?
>ROUND EARTHERS BTFO
did you lads see the coliseum matches last night
fucking brutal
>alexander
>the
>great
Are lowland-Scots descendants of Britons?
Also, when Northumbria conquered south-east Scotland, was there a migration of Angles to that area and if so, did they stay after Scotland re-conquered that area.
Lowland Scots are by and large descendents of the Britons, with some Gaelic admixture in the west and English/Norse/Flemish/Dutch admixture in the east.
>when Northumbria conquered south-east Scotland, was there a migration of Angles to that area and if so, did they stay after Scotland re-conquered that area.
I think it was the other way around. Northumbria basically became a little cluster of Germanics and eventually Scotland annexed some of their territory.
The Angle influx to Scotland mostly happened during the reigns of Malcolm Canmore and David I. Malcolm married an Englishwoman and a lot of her retainers came to live in Scotland and their culture became very influential at court. David I wanted to bring Scotland more in line with England and France, and established the Burgh system, which attracted a lot of English settlers.
Both
Lowland Scots are like Turks, at some point in time they were native to their land but then they got stockholm syndrome and started internalising the foreign culture and language being whispered into their ear as they were raped
>During the American Revolution Benjamin Franklin strongly advocated for the reintroduction of the longbow because it, in many ways, was more lethal than the a flintlock musket.
Was it just a matter of the horrible accuracy of flintlocks? Range?
>>1147527
Franklin thought everyone could learn to be skilled with a bow in relatively short time periods.
He was wrong. Thus, it never happened. B. Frank wasn't infallible.
>>1147527
>training
You need a lot of practise to effectively use a strong longbow
A musket can be put into the hands of a untrained farmer and be lethal with very little training
>>1147527
He was just a fatass mumbling about shit.
Why does the roman army of the 4th century on have to look so bad?
They look like barbarian peasants or larpers
They were poor farmers mostly.
Or maybe barbarian peasants and larpers try to look like them?
>>1133325
>Look so bad.
No?
Imo they're severely underrated because plebs only know of the meme lorca segmentata'd early empire ones.
If the natives had immunity to European diseases, would the Spaniards still have taken down these two empires?
>>1142920
bump.
I don't know much about this topic myself, hoping to see some interesting discussions.
>>1142920
It's not like indians were wiped out in those places.
>>1142920
Well I don`t know nothing about the Incas but Aztecs were doomed because every other tribe hate them and they allied with the spanish.
Tell me about the Huns.
>>1145159
Why do they invade the west?
>>1145159
How come they stopped going south into the balkanswhen they reached the Bulgars?
>>1145159
>Look at all this.....nothing.....that we conquered!
What was a Zweihander actually used for?
>>1145091
For battle.
And they aren't that big.
>>1145091
Don't look for video games for accuracy.
The one in the image would never be used in battle. The real ones are bit tiny, thin and long. Similar to katanas but with better metal quality.
>>1145091
charging and attacking enemy pikemen.
Jesus was a 33-year-old unmarried man surrounded by legions of loyal followers, among them innumerable prostitutes, adulterous wives, and gay young boys.
Why do we think he was a virgin, again?
>>1143571
Because MUH FEELS. Just like anything else people believe with no reason or evidence.
Sort of like Jesus' divinity LOL.
He was pretty big on people not having sex outside of marriage.
You have difficulty believing a religious zealot who voluntarily lived in the desert might have been an ascetic? We have religious zealot ascetics alive and walking around TODAY, they aren't exactly unicorns.
If Jesus Christ were alive today what church do you think he would be the most pleased with: Catholic, Orthodox, Or Protestant?
He'd die of shock when he stepped out and saw horseless carts speeding by and everyone around him shouting in their weird tongues.
>>1143344
Which ever is most ready to fight the poor treatment of the weak and forgive sinners truly seeking a fresh start. These seem to be his main things both of which you could describe as compassion.
>>1143365
So id assume Catholic, especially with pope Francis.
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