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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Hugging the Golden-Haired Lion
DESCRIPTION:A student asked Yunmen\, “What is the pure and everlasting body of reality?”\nYunmen said\, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs.”\nThe student asked\, “What’s it like when I reach there?”\nYunmen said\, “Golden haired lion!” \nAnother time when Yunmen was asked a similar question\, his reply was “dried shitstick.” Reminds me of Zhaozhou’s response to a similar question\, which was\, “Oak tree in the garden.” That’s what the pure and everlasting body of reality looks like\, sounds like\, acts like. That the image of a golden haired lion is used in reference to the intertwined nature of the real and the provisional\, emptiness and form\, is interesting\, but I doubt Yunmen had that in mind when he said it. I doubt he had anything in mind when he said it. \nI receive an inordinate number of videos featuring people hugging\, being hugged by\, rolling around with and generally being amazingly intimate with big lions\, tigers\, and all manner of big cat. I love seeing them and wish I could have a big cat with which I could to do that\, too.  \nWhat if Yunmen felt that way\, and saw the student who asked the question as a golden haired lion that he wanted to roll around with? The verse to the case would appear not to be so kind to either Yunmen\, or the student: \nA fence of flowers and healing herbs. Don’t look so stupid!\nThe pointer is on the scale arm\, not on the measuring pan.\n“…When one goes on that way…”  —What a foolish thing to say! A golden-haired lion. Everybody look! \nIndeed\, everybody look! Here are a couple of ways that a golden haired lion can look. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-17-2/
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nSign up now for August 3rd\, 2024 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-3-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240730T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Alchemical Process of Losing and Finding
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSomeone asked\, “What is meditating and seeing things just as they are?”\nYunmen said\, “A coin lost in the river is found in the river.” \n“Where is my phone? Where are my keys? Where are my glasses?” I ask myself these questions\, accompanied by a sinking feeling in my gut\, multiple times a day. I am not sure if it is getting worse\, or I am getting better at noticing it more. Recently I was looking for a pair of scissors that I had just used and put down\, which had mysteriously disappeared\, though I had not moved. I found the scissors where I left them\, right in front of me. That’s when the koan about the coin lost in the river paid me a visit. \nI remembered that this saying of Yunmen’s was the response to the question\, “What is meditating and seeing things clearly?” Rather than a description of a static state\, Yunmen gives a description of a process. The process is losing and finding and then losing again and finding again. Reminds me of the alchemical process of dissolution and coagulation. \nThose scissors that I was looking for were hidden under a piece of paper that I had placed on top of them. Just like the way I obscure my ability to see things clearly by putting things\, ideas\, my opinions and agendas\, on top of what’s there. Of course\, then there is the added story that I put on top of that\, something along the lines of “Who moved them?” or “Not again!” or “What’s the matter with me?” \nThe fact is\, I lost my attention before I lost the scissors and it found me again in the midst of having lost it. Sometimes an awakening experience is described as remembering something you did not know you had forgotten. It was kind of like that. I noticed that I was clinging to my idea about where I left the scissors and my idea about myself\, when I remembered my attention\, which I had not noticed that I had forgotten. I had the spaciousness to be able to look other places than where I thought I left them. I was able to be aware of other possibilities. \nLost anything lately? Find it? What was that like? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-16-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Every Day Is a Doorway
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nYunmen said\, “I don’t ask you about before awakening\, say something about after awakening.”\nHe answered himself saying\, “Every day is a good day.” \nThe prospect of every day being a good day is attractive. Equanimity in the midst of chaos sounds like a preferred way for things to go. It’s not uncommon to think that after awakening everything is going to be fine: no more troubles\, no more problems. Attaining Nirvana\, paradise\, is the goal\, right? Depends on what Nirvana means to you. \nMark Twain’s book\, Letters from the Earth\, is a series of letters from Archangel Satan reporting back to God about his creation. One thing that puzzles Satan is the way that humans think of heaven. When they are alive\, they do not look forward to the experience of spending Sunday in church. However\, Satan notes\, their conception of heaven seems to be an eternal Sabbath with angels singing and church bells ringing. \nMore recently\, and similarly\, David Byrne wrote in his song\, Heaven: “Heaven\, heaven is a place\, a place where nothing\, nothing ever happens.” If nothing ever happens\, nothing bad can happen—is that Heaven? The path of meditation is sometimes called the middle way. In pursuit of the ‘middle\,’ we can practice in such a way as to cut off the highs and lows of life\, leaving nothing but the middle\, which is a kind of dead way to live. There are fewer traumas\, but less life too\, and that itself is a trauma. \nYunmen’s good day is not a day when nothing bad happens\, when nothing unwanted happens\, when there are no fires and no smoke\, no positive Covid tests. It is the whole enchilada\, containing it all. Our meditation practice gives us access to a doorway out of our small\, safe\, constructed life into something larger—and that’s good. \nJoin us. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-16-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\n Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nSign up now for July 20th\, 2024 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE. \nDana gratefully accepted
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-6-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is Your Original Face?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuickly\, without thinking good or evil\,\nwhat is your original face before your parents were born? \n—Gateless Barrier Case 23 \nThat word “quickly” quickly got my attention. Some translations don’t have it but most do\, which is interesting. That it has survived all this time as part of the koan speaks to me about the importance of “quickly.” I was reminded that according to Buddhist teachings there are sixty-four thought moments in the snap of a finger. Huineng is encouraging us to be quicker than that. \nI recently saw an article about a skydiver who became the first person to break the sound barrier while skydiving\, going faster than the speed of sound. Huineng is urging us to go faster than the speed of thought\, to break the thought barrier. \nCheck it out\, how quickly do ideas about good or bad\, this or that\, self or other come to mind? \nThe other thing that came along as I was keeping company with this koan was part of last week’s koan\, specifically the part that asks\,“What are you?” \nOriginal face feels like a fitting response. \nJoin us Tuesday. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-16-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Whole World Is Medicine
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen said\, “Sickness and medicine heal each other.\nThe whole world is medicine. What are you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 87 \nThe first thing that paid a visit as I began keeping company with this saying from Yunmen was remembering that the medication Warfarin\, which is used to prevent blood clots\, is also the main ingredient of rat poison. Poison and medicine exactly correspond. \nThen a saying of Hongzhi came to mind: \nMedicine and sickness are a pair difficult to separate. When the bottom is filled with rubbish\, just walk through the sludge. Do not laugh at the snail\, meandering in its own slime. \nIn the Tibetan meditation tradition\, people who practice meditation for the benefit of other people\, bodhisattvas\, are likened to peacocks: It is said that the brilliant colors in a peacock’s tail feathers come from the fact that the peacock eats poison and transmutes this into brilliant colors.  \nAs yucky as snail slime might be to us\, it’s what allows the snail to glide along in the way it does. When my mind is filled with rubbish that gets in the way of my experiencing the moment as it is arising\, trying to get rid of that rubbish creates more rubbish.  \nTo be able to find our life in the midst of the rubbish and sludge is not to “make do” with a bad situation\, but to glide along like that snail\, appreciating how rubbish and treasure are a pair difficult to separate. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-16-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nSign up now for June 22nd\, 2024 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE. \nDana gratefully accepted
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-6-3/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Visits in the Cold and the Heat?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA student asked Dongshan\, “When cold and heat come\, how can we avoid them?”\nDongshan said\, “Why don’t you go to the place where there is no cold or heat?”\nThe student asked\, “Where’s the place with neither cold nor heat?”\nDongshan said\, “When it’s cold\, the cold kills you. When it’s hot\, the heat kills you.” \nAs I spend time with this koan from Dongshan about heat and cold\, I’ve been visited by a number of other koans. First there was Zhaozhou\, when someone asked him\, “When times of great difficulty visit us\, how should we meet them?” And he said\, “Welcome.” \nThen Linji came along and said\, “Wherever you are\, just take the role of host and that will be a true place.” \nThen there was Yunyan telling Dongshan\, “Just this is it.” \nWord of the party got out and a number of koans from the miscellaneous collection came along. \nStop the sound of the distant temple bell\nPut out the fire across the river\nStop the dogs barking at midnight\nExtinguish the star\nMake the mountain dance\nHide in a pillar\n \nOf course there was also Dongshan’s\, “Now it is me\, I now am not it.” \nThe other thing that happened was being reminded of an earlier time in my practice when I mistook submission for surrender. \nWhat strings in other koans get plucked for you? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-16-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: You Are Huichao
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA student asked Fayan\, “I am Huichao. What is Buddha?”\nFayan replied\, “You are Huichao!”\n \nYuanwu\, the compiler of the Blue Cliff Record had this to say about this koan: \n“People of later times just made-up interpretations of these words. Some say\,‘Huichao is himself Buddha; that is why Fayan answered as he did.’ Some say\, ‘It’s much like riding an ox searching for an ox.’ Some say\, ‘The asking is it.’ How is any of this relevant? If you go on understanding like this\, not only do you turn against yourself\, but you seriously demean that ancient teacher.” \nThat pretty much takes away any rational understanding that I might have about this koan. \nWhat’s left? \nJoin us. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-15-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240618T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is the Teaching That Lasts a Lifetime?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\nA student asked Yunmen\, “What is the teaching that lasts a lifetime?”\nYunmen replied\, “Say something in response.” \n\n\n\n\nWhen I was queried about newsletter copy for our Tuesday Zen gathering (this one)\, my response was\, “Oh shit\, I completely forgot!” It was day five of our seven-day retreat and I was completely unstuck in time. \nThen another koan came to keep me company along with Yunmen’s “Say something in response\,” which was Baizhang’s “Say something without moving your lips or tongue.” \n\n\n\n\nWhat do you say to that? \n\n\n—David Weinstein \n\n\n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-15-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240611T180000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is in sesshin today\, returning to Tuesday Zen on June18th. \nHope to see you then! \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Zhaozhou's Dog
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”\n“Yes\,” replied Zhaozhou.\n“Then why did it jump into that bag of fur?”\n“It knew what it was doing and that’s why it dogged.” \nAnother time a student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”\n“No\,” said Zhaozhou.\n“All beings have Buddha nature. Why doesn’t a dog have it?”\n“Because it’s beginning to awaken in the world of ignorance.” \n—Book of Equanimity Case 18 & Gateless Gate Case 1 \nThis isn’t exactly the same as the koan we sat with this past week—it is and it isn’t. That seems appropriate\, like Zhaozhou saying a dog does and does not have Buddha nature.  \nSpending time with this koan has been the occasion for me to ask myself what I think about Buddha nature. As I spent time with the koan\, some help came along from Yunmen: “Whatever is as it truly is contains everything. It neither arises nor disappears and is neither defiled nor pure.” That feels like a satisfactory way to think about Buddha nature. \nIt has also been the occasion for me to remember an encounter between Zhaozhou and his teacher Nanquan regarding the Dao: \nZhaozhou asked Nanquan\, “What is the Dao?”\nNanquan said\, “Ordinary mind is the Dao.”\nZhaozhou asked\, “Should I try to direct myself toward it?”\nNanquan said\, “If you try to direct yourself you betray your own practice.”\nZhaozhou asked\, “How can I know the Dao if I don’t direct myself?”” \nNanquan said\, “The Dao is not subject to knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion\, not knowing is blankness. If you truly reach the genuine Dao\, you will find it as vast and boundless as outer space. How can this be discussed at the level of affirmation and negation?” \nWith these words\, Zhaozhou had sudden realization. \nWith this conversation between Zhaozhou and Nanquan in mind\, it’s hard for me not to appreciate the dog koan as an occasion for Zhaozhou to present a kind of homage to his old teacher. \nWhat kind of occasion has it been for you? If you are there on Tuesday\, it will be an occasion for you to share it with others in a breakout room. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-15-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240528T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240528T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Golden Wind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Yunmen\, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall\, what’s that?”\nYunmen said\, “The Golden Wind reveals itself.” \nThis koan came along at just the right time; funny how that happens.  \nMy wife had flown to Japan to accompany her 88-year-old mother back here for a visit. When we asked her mom what she wanted to do during her stay\, as she has been here many times over the last thirty-five years\, she said she wanted to see the White House in Washington\, DC\, and wanted to go by train. So … we got tickets and hotel reservations and contacted our representative in Congress regarding a White House tour.  \nThe plan was to go by Amtrak down the coast from Oakland to LA. We would spend the night and next day in LA exploring\, then get on another Amtrak taking us to Chicago via the southwest route. Michael and Brooke Wilding were even going to meet us at our brief stop in Laming\, New Mexico\, to give us grapplesnaps for the trip. We were to arrive in Chicago at midday in time to take an architectural boat tour of Chicago that had been highly recommended. The next day we would fly to DC\, arriving right before our tour of the White House.  \nIt sounded like a great adventure … but we had a different great adventure that began the morning of our departure\, when my wife woke up with a fever and positive Covid test. \nInstead of our adventure to DC we had the adventure of isolating together for a week. As the plans for our trip withered and reservations fell into credits to be used sometime in the future\, there was the golden wind of my wife getting Paxlovid and recovering\, and her 88-year-old mother and I somehow not getting sick. There was also just spending time together\, not distracted by the great adventure of traveling. Taking care of each other\, worrying about each other\, feeling the time together. \nAs for that “just the right time” thing I mentioned at the beginning—when I saw that our koan this week was the Golden Wind\, we were already on the other side of our Covid adventure. But I recognized that it had been keeping me company all along. Sometimes it happens like that. The “right time” is now. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-14-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240525T080000
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE. \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-4-2-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is away\, returning May 28th. \nHope to see you then! \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-14-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is away\, returning May 28th. \nHope to see you then! \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-14-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE (link coming soon) \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-4-2/2024-05-11/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240507T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Baizhang's Fox Decides to Stay – with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe Koan: \nWhen Baizhang gave a talk\, an old man was always there listening with the others. When they left\, he left too. One day he stayed behind. Baizhang asked\, “Who are you\, standing here in front of me?” \nThe old man said\, “It’s true\, I am not a human being. Eons ago\, in the time of Kashyapa Buddha\, I was a priest living on this mountain. A student asked\, ‘Is an enlightened person subject to cause and effect or not?’ I replied\, ‘Someone like that doesn’t fall into cause and effect.’ Because of this\, I have been reborn as a fox for five hundred lives. Now I beg you to say a turning word and release me from this wild fox’s body.” \nThen he asked\, “Is an enlightened person subject to cause and effect or not?” \nBaizhang said\, “You don’t cut the chains of cause and effect.” \nAt these words\, the old man was deeply enlightened. He bowed and said\, “I’ve been released from my fox’s body. The body is on the other side of this mountain. I implore you\, perform for me the funeral for a priest.” \nBaizhang had the duty monk strike the white gavel and announce to the community that after the meal there would be a funeral for a priest. Everyone wondered about this because they were all healthy and no one was sick in the infirmary. \nAfter the meal\, Baizhang led the assembly to the foot of a cliff on the other side of the mountain. He used his staff to poke out a dead fox. Then he cremated the body according to the rules. \nWhen Baizhang went to teach that evening\, he explained the whole story. Huangbo asked him\, “The man from ancient times gave a mistaken answer\, he was reborn as a fox for five hundred lives. If at each turn he makes no mistake\, what would have happened then? \nBaizhang said\, “Come up close and I’ll tell you.” Huangbo went up and slapped Baizhang. Baizhang clapped his hands\, laughed and said\, “I thought I was a red bearded barbarian\, but here’s someone who is even more of a red bearded barbarian.“ \n***** \nThere is a fine line between the observing meditative consciousness of the self—observing the self—and selfing the self through dissociation. Basically\, dissociation means a lack of connection\, and therein lies the difference. The observing meditative consciousness enhances connection; it does not sever it. It is a common mistake in meditation to imagine that meditation leads to more equanimity. What meditation leads to is us being more who we really are\, and there is a certain equanimity that comes with that.  \nIn this koan the old man is suffering from the belief that it is possible to sever the chains of karma\, that it is possible to move through life with equanimity at all times\, unaffected by the world around him. Upon closer observation over a long time—five hundred lifetimes\, the story tells us—he comes to notice the cost of his belief and instead of leaving\, as he has done so many times before\, he stays. He stays after the talk and he stays in his life\, just as it is\, just as he is\, and he discovers freedom.  \nWhat do you notice when you stay and don’t leave? What do you notice when you leave? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-14-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Raising the Blind with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan took the high seat before the midday meal to preach to his assembly.\nRaising his hand he pointed to the bamboo blinds.\nTwo monks went and rolled them up in the same manner.\nFayan said “One gains; one loses.” \nWumen comments: \nTell me\, which one gained? Which one lost?\nIf you have the eye regarding this\, you will see where Fayan failed.\nBut I must warn you strictly against arguing gain and loss. \nWin/lose\, right/wrong\, gain/loss: It’s all in the same territory. \nWhat is Fayan doing in that territory\, saying that one gains and one loses? Doesn’t he know better? Is that how Fayan failed? Assuming he does know better\, what is he talking about then? Could he be talking about the way things are constantly coming and going\, the transitory nature of existence? The comment raises the question about which one gained and which one lost. What if it’s not talking about the two monks? Who else could it be talking about? \nThen there’s that little detail about it happening before the midday meal and I wonder how that has survived over the millennia. \nWhat do you think? \nJoin us. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-12-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240427T080000
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-4/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240423T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Fill a Sieve with Water with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA teacher said\, “It’s like filling a sieve with water.”\nThe student thought about this for some time\, but didn’t understand. \nThe teacher took a sieve and they went to the sea.\nThe student poured water into the sieve and it poured out again.\n“How do you do it?” she asked.\nThe teacher threw the sieve out into the ocean\, \nwhere it floated for a moment and then sank. \n(PZI Miscellaneous Koans) \n“Filling a sieve with water” sounds like a task you might encounter in a fairytale. Something along the lines of picking out a wagonload of poppy seeds from black flour dust or telling the king how many hairs he has on his head. The one assigning such a task in fairy tales and myths do not expect the person to succeed\, and even hope for failure. \nIn the case of koans\, inviting someone to fill a sieve with water is suggested knowing that the person can accomplish the task and may even have already accomplished it\, though they may not know it themselves. The task is our life\, and we are always living it whether we notice it or not. Our life may feel like a sieve full of holes as we feel unable to hold onto anything. But not being able to hold onto anything is just the way life is\, the way a sieve cannot hold onto water. \nWe can spend a lot of time trying to plug up the holes of our sieve-life and may even succeed in making it hold water. But then it is no longer a sieve and it is no longer life. To fill a sieve with water is to appreciate that like the cracks that let the light in\, holes in a sieve\, in our life\, let the light\, let life in. \nAnd what about that moment when the sieve floated before it sank? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-12-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240416T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Buffalo Passing Through with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWuzu said\, “It is like a buffalo jumping through a latticed window. Its head\, horns\,\nand four legs all pass through. Why can’t its tail pass through?”  \n—Gateless Gate Case 38 \nWhat first arose when hanging out with this koan was wondering what question Wuzu was answering. Next I remembered the television game show Jeopardy\, where you are given an answer and must come up with the question.  \nIt might be fun to have a koan version of Jeopardy\, though whenever hanging out with koans there is already the jeopardy of losing our cherished thoughts and opinions about ourselves and others and the world.  \nWhat do you think the question was? \nHaving spent time with Taking a Step off the Hundred-Foot Pole last week\, my attention was drawn to the way the buffalo passed through the window. Just as I was curious about the different ways of leaving the top of the hundred-foot pole. You can step\, slip\, be pushed or jump\, whether it is the top of the pole or in front of a latticed window.  \nWhat is it for you? \nSome translations don’t have a latticed window\, it’s just a window. That’s interesting—what does that difference feel like to me\, to you?  \nAnd what is the tail? What is passing through the window\, however you do it? Koans are mirrors that reflect our life back to us. What in my life feels like that? \nThen there is also the question of whether the buffalo is going in or getting out\, and the Goose in the Bottle koan comes to mind. Any other koans come to your mind? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-12-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Take a Step with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nShishuang asked\, \nHow do you step from the top of a hundred-foot pole? \nAnother eminent teacher of the past (Changsha) said\, \nYou’ve entered the Way and are perched on a hundred-foot pole\, but it’s not yet real. Take a step from the top of the pole and your whole body manifests in every direction. \nWumen’s Verse \nYou blinded the eye in your forehead\nand clung to the mark on the scale.\nThrow away your body and lay down your life\,\nand the blind will lead the blind. \n**** \nAs with last week’s koan about Shoushan and when he “got it\,” with this week’s koan involving Shishuang and the hundred-foot pole\, I find myself interested in Shishuang’s own experience with that pole. \nThere are questions: What is the hundred-foot pole and how did I get up there? \nI’ve been interested in noticing different ways of leaving the top of the pole: The koan invites us to “take a step\,” and I wonder about leaping or slipping or being pushed. \nPerhaps\, by accident\, like Wiley Coyote while chasing the Roadrunner\, you suddenly find yourself standing in midair and just hanging there—until you think about it and then down you go. \nThen there’s Changsha’s comment that “Entering the way results in standing on the top of a hundred-foot pole.” That’s a good thing? Again\, I wonder\, what is this hundred-foot pole? \nAnd there’s part of Wumen’s comment on the koan that caught my attention\, “clinging to the mark on the scale\,” which also resonates with our previous koan about “getting it.” \nSo what’s your experience of being on top of a hundred-foot pole?\nHow did you get off?\nAre you off? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-12-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: The Moon Sets at Midnight with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe teacher said to the gathering\,  \n“If you get it the first time you hear it\, you will teach the buddhas and ancestors. If you get it the second time you hear it\, you will teach gods and humans. If you don’t get it til the third time you hear it\, you won’t even be able to save yourself.”  \nA student asked\, “When did you get it?”  \nThe teacher said\, “The moon sets at midnight\, I walk alone through the town.” \nAs I spent time with this koan\, the first predicament I was aware of was that I didn’t know what the predicament was in this koan. That was interesting. Then various possibilities came up—they were not thought up; they just came up on their own. \nOne was the predicament of being a student who wants to ask their teacher when they “got it\,” but feeling like it would be an inappropriate question\, possibly being received as a questioning of their teacher’s ability but asking anyway. Or perhaps it’s the predicament of already being awake\, but thinking you are not and as a result\, trying to wake up when you already are. That would be a kind of predicament. \nOr perhaps it’s the predicament of being a student listening to their teacher talking about different levels of attainment and remembering Linji saying\, “The true person is of no rank\, no levels . . .” \nWhat predicaments do you find in the koan? In your life? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n\n 
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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Hanging from a Branch by Your Teeth with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nXiangyan said\, \nIt is as though you were up in a tree\, hanging from a branch by your teeth.\nYour hands and feet can’t reach any branches.\nSomeone appears under the tree and asks\,\n“What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West?”\nIf you don’t answer\, you’re not responding to this person’s need.\nIf you do answer\, you lose your life.\nWhat do you do? \n(PZI Miscellaneous Koan) \nXiangyan knew very well what it felt like to be hanging from a branch by his teeth. \nA brilliant student who could read a text once and have it memorized\, yet after many years practicing with Baizhang\, when Baizhang died Xiangyan still hadn’t gotten it. So he took all his books and went to Guishan’s place. Xiangyan had already sunk his teeth firmly into the branch of intellectual knowledge contained in all those books. \nGuishan said to him\, “I do not ask what is recorded in the scriptures and commentaries. I ask for a word from your original nature\, before you left the womb and before you knew east from west.” That was Xiangyan’s experience of somebody asking him the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West\, as he hung by his teeth. \nWhen all his responses were rejected by Guishan\, he came to a place which moved him to say\, “A picture of a rice cake doesn’t satisfy hunger\,” and he burned his books. \nThat was Xiangfan relaxing his grip on the branch and opening his mouth to answer the question. \nThis reminds me of the story of Deshan\, another brilliant student. He put all his highly respected commentaries on the Diamond Sutra in a cart\, and pulled them to the South to set the Chan lunatics straight. Like Xiangyan\, Deshan burned his commentaries after the teacher Longtan blew out his candle. \nWhat have you got your teeth sunk into? \nJoin us. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-3/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: For Your Benefit with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOne day\, when Dongshan and a monk were washing their bowls\,\nthey saw two crows fighting over a frog.\nThe monk asked\, “Why does it always have to be like that?”\nDongshan replied\, “It’s only for your benefit\, honored one.” \n(PZI Miscellaneous Koan) \nThe other day as I was getting ready to make some coffee\, I reached for the scoop and it wasn’t where I always put it. The thought came to my mind: “Why does somebody always move that scoop!?” Next came\, “Why do I always do that?”—noticing how quick I am to blame\, even to blame myself for blaming. \nThen my eyes drifted about six inches to one side and … there was the scoop. \nAgain\, “Why do I always do that!?” came along. Why am I so locked into what I think I know about the way things are that I can’t see the way things are? Like that scoop\, so close to where it was “supposed to be\,” yet I couldn’t see it. \nIt was about then that this koan involving Dongshan paid me a visit. Hearing Dongshan say “It is only for your benefit\,” was more confusing than comforting. How could blaming and misperceiving reality—due to my preconceived ideas—be for my benefit? Is it like bad-tasting medicine? And then there was the “honored one” part of the koan. Appreciating that it was for my benefit is hard enough\, let alone that I was to be honored for having had the experience. \nSometime later\, maybe the same day\, Sarasa and I were sitting in front of the large picture windows in our living room enjoying the sunset as it sank exactly between two peaks across the bay. The sky was starting to be electrified and there was a cat on my lap\, and again I heard Dongshan say\, “It is only for your benefit\, honored one.” \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: How Are You Free? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYou find yourself in a stone crypt.\nThere are no windows\, and the door is locked from the outside.\nHow will you get out? \n—PZI Predicament Koan \nIn our Tuesday evening gatherings\, after the twenty-minute breakout section where folks go off to small groups of three or four to talk about their experience with the koan\, we gather again for ten minutes or so before closing. That’s when I encourage sharing in the larger group some of what was said in the breakout rooms. I usually say something like\, “Repeating what was already said is okay\, as it may come out differently and give you an insight into what you previously said that you hadn’t had before.” \nPutting my money where my mouth is\, I am bringing the stone crypt for further exploration on Tuesday. And will probably be saying much of what I said last Tuesday when talking about the goose in the bottle. \nDavid’s text from his recent Sunday Talk on the Stone Crypt: \nSitting with the stone crypt koan in our morning meditation this past week\, another koan keeps coming to join the conversation: that one about getting a goose that’s trapped in a bottle out of the bottle without breaking the bottle (or hurting the goose). That kind of thing can happen in koan practice; a second or third koan can join the conversation. It can cause some confusion\, as if the koans are in competition for my attention. With time it’s possible to appreciate how the koans are not competing but resonating with each other. \nIn both koans we are asked how to get out. In some translations we are asked\, “How are you free?” which is interesting. The perspectives are different: In one\, I am locked in and in the other\, it’s the goose that’s locked in and I am outside the bottle observing the goose inside. But who is that goose\, really? And who is the woman who raises the goose in the bottle\, really? And what are the crypt and the bottle\, really? \nIn the crypt there are no windows\, it is dark\, I can’t see my hand in front of my face. In the case of the goose\, the bottle is clear\, at least my bottle is—maybe yours isn’t. I can see out and the outside can see in. \nBoth resonate with places where I can sometimes find myself. Sometimes I’m in the dark about being trapped in my delusions. Sometimes I can see quite clearly how I am trapped. The term “conscious incompetence” comes to mind—knowing that I am trapped\, but that knowledge being of no help. Seeing that can help\, so long as I don’t judge myself for being an idiot\, which makes it worse. \nThe koan says\, “I find myself locked in a stone crypt.” I am in the dark about how I got there. The goose koan tells me that this was done intentionally\, by a woman (who is me)\, for what reason I can only imagine. That’s what koans invite us to do: imagine. Imagine that I am the woman\, imagine that I am the goose\, imagine that I am the bottle\, imagine that I am in a place so dark that I cannot see my hand in front of my face. \nThese koans are not hypothetical situations; they are mirrors reflecting us back to ourselves\, an opportunity to see more clearly who we are and what life is. In each case there is something about getting out of our own way and being who we really are. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n\n 
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