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May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
May 17: Sunday Zen with John Tarrant, Allison Atwill & Tess Beasley
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: Waiting for the Year of the Donkey
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Whenever Luzu saw a student coming, he immediately faced the wall.
Hearing about this, Nanquan said, “I usually say to others, ‘Make what was before the empty eon your own. Grasp the time when the Buddha had not yet come into the world.’ Still, I can’t get a whole or even a half a person enlightened. If he goes on like that, he’ll have to wait for the Year of the Donkey.”
(There is no ‘Year of the Donkey’ in the Chinese calendar)
—Book of Serenity Case 23
What stands out for me is Nanquan’s “Still, I can’t get a whole or even a half a person enlightened.”
No one can ‘get’ someone enlightened; it is the recognition of something that has already happened, not a creation of something. We are enlightened from the very beginning. It is a matter of recognizing that, not making it happen.
In that way, Nanquan and Luzu are saying the same thing. And in a way, Luzu is making a perfect presentation of what Nanquan is talking about.
We don’t face the wall anymore; we face a wall of other faces and discover that they are all ours.
—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
