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April 26: What Is This Light That Everybody Has? – Deep Sit Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
June 8–14: Dragons & Tigers, Oh My! – Our Great Summer Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: After Enlightenment, the Laundry
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Fengxue said, “If you raise a speck of dust, the world flourishes. If you don’t raise a speck of dust, the world perishes.”
—Fengxue’s Speck of Dust, Book of Serenity Case 34
This is the third koan in a row that has struck me as being about stepping off the hundred-foot pole. I’m not sure if Wansong kept the same order of koans as in the original collection by Hongzhi, or not. It seems like one or the other of them put these three together to make a point about the necessity of coming forth into the world and not staying in the vastness.
“Abiding nowhere the mind comes forth,” says the Diamond Sutra. It comes forth in the world that the Hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak walked into with her staff across her shoulders. The world in which, as Yangshan said, “it is enough for the stage of being human.” The world in which Xuefeng said that he was old, as we all get old, and that he was busy, as we are all busy.
It reminds me of when Shitou checked in on his student Layman Pang about his practice and Pang’s response was, “How miraculous and wondrous! Chopping wood and carrying water.” Going shopping, cooking dinner. There is a Zen proverb that goes, “After enlightenment, the laundry.”
That’s all for now, I’ve got to go to feed the cats.
—David Weinstein
COME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation, dharma talk and conversation.
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David Weinstein Roshi, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
