PZI Events Calendar
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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: Vimalakirti’s Silence
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When I write about the weekly koan, first I look for an image.
This week as I searched for “images of silence,” I couldn’t find one that quite hit the spot. Then I recalled my recent three weeks in Japan, spent on the coast sixty miles southwest of Tokyo, where from the veranda at our place it’s possible to look straight down and see waves crashing against the rocky coast. The sound of waves is a constant backdrop.
That constant presence can lead them to being silent, a blank paper waiting for the brush and ink of whatever other sounds are present. Late at night, in the dark, listening to the regular rhythm of the waves, like the breathing of the ocean, the breathing of the earth, the sound of the waves can become the only sound, the only thing at all, and there is also the silence.
I think Vimalakirti’s silence was like that. The only thing there was at all.
—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
