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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: Equanimity Case 3
A king of Eastern India invited the Twenty-Seventh Ancestor, Prajnatara, to a vegetarian meal. “Why don’t you read from the sutras?” he asked her.
Prajnatara said, “I’m a poor person of the Way: When I breathe in I don’t live in the world my mind makes, and when I breathe out I don’t get caught up in the world of cause and effect. I’m always turning the wheel of the sutras—a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand scrolls.”
—Book of Serenity Case 3
As I sat with this koan, the first thing that came to me were Bodhidharma’s words to Emperor Wu, “Vast emptiness, nothing holy.” Nothing holy because everything is holy.
Then a koan from our miscellaneous collection came to join the conversation:
All the Buddhas and the Buddha’s teachings arise from this sutra. What is this sutra?
That koan is attributed to Shishuang, who also gave us:
How do you take a step from the 100-foot pole?
Which he followed with helpful advice:
You who sit on the top of a hundred-foot pole, although you have entered the Way, it is not yet genuine. Take a step from the hundred-foot pole and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body.
When you’ve entered the way genuinely and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body, everything you do is turning the wheel of the sutras.
Turned any wheels lately? How about the steering wheel on your car?
—David Weinstein, February 11th, 2025
David Weinstein Roshi, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
