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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: Yantou’s Shout and Bow – Equanimity 22
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Yantou came to Deshan’s place. With a foot on each side of the threshold, he asked, “Is this ordinary? Is this holy?”
Deshan roared.
Yantou bowed.
Hearing about this, Dongshan said, “No one but clear sighted Yantou would have understood that.”
Yantou said, “That good old boy Dongshan can’t tell good from bad. At that moment, I raised up with one hand and pressed down with the other.”
As I have been keeping company with this koan, what has arisen is remembering how many times in reading Yamada Roshi’s commentaries, he takes a jab at his teacher, Yasutani. Sometimes the jabs go all the way back to Yasutani’s teacher Harada. He is always respectful, raising up one hand, but also jabs, as he presses down with the other hand.
There is no bottom to the well that this practice offers us. So not so surprising that a student would surpass their teacher as they press on, down into the matter of, “What is this?” It could be said that it is the responsibility of both the teacher and student to make that so.
—David Weinstein
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David Weinstein Roshi, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
