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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: The Intersectionality of Pillars
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Yunmen said, “An old Buddha and a pillar intersect with each other.
What number of activity is this?
He spoke in their place,”Clouds rise on South Mountain.
Rain falls on North Mountain.”
—Book of Serenity Case 31
The first thing to appear alongside this koan was from our PZI Miscellaneous Collection:
Hide in a pillar.
Then I wondered about the difference between “hide” and “intersect.” There are various translations of the character for “intersect,” like:
merge
has intercourse with
embrace
mingle
cross
have relations with
does it with
I noticed the translation “merge” felt close to “hide” and different from the others. The other translations didn’t feel as complete as “merge” and “hide.” I looked up the character and found that it was used to describe the intersection of two roads, and I noticed how that intersection felt close to “hide.”
The translation “embrace” reminded me of the koan about Qian and her spirit being separated and how, at the end of the story, the two Qians embrace and become one, and how that feels close to “hide.”
Yunmen’s response about clouds and rain and the association to sexual union felt like that embrace of the two Qians. That moment when there is only one, and then not even one.
What number of activity is that?
—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
