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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/
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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. \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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240402T180000
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-12-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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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 \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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-11/
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: 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-11-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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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 \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time every 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-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: The Goose\, The Crypt\, and Me with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSince finding out that we’ll next be hanging out with predicament koans in our morning meditations\, this one about the goose in the bottle has been keeping me company. Actually\, it’s been a three-way conversation between me\, the goose in the bottle and finding myself locked in a stone crypt. \nA woman raised a goose in a bottle.\nWhen the goose was grown\, she wanted to get it out.\nHow can you get it out without breaking the bottle?  \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans\, Case 63 \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 Miscellaneous Koans\, Case 20  \nIn both koans we are asked\, “How do you get out?” The perspectives seem to be different: In one I am locked in and in the other it’s the goose. But who is that goose\, really? And who is the woman who raises the goose in the bottle\, really? As with dreams\, in the koan it is helpful to explore the ways that I am everything. \nIn the case of 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\, I can see out\, and the outside can see in. Both situations resonate with places where I find myself at times. \nSometimes I’m in the dark about being trapped by 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 this knowledge is not helping. Seeing it can help\, so long as I don’t judge myself for being an idiot\, which can make it feel worse. Being in the dark is no picnic\, but as the koan says\, “I find myself locked in a stone crypt.” I am in the dark about how I got there. \nThe 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 the koan invites us to do: imagine. Imagine that I am the woman\, imagine that I am the goose\, imagine that I am the bottle. \nIn some ways they would appear to be the same koan\, the same situation: I am confined and trying to get out. But just as “Hide in a pillar” and “Hide in a bell” appear to present the same situation\, we take them as different and inquire into each one with that in mind. \nWith both the pillar and the bell\, there is something to be explored about being the same and being different. Like you and me. With the bottle and the crypt\, or bell and pillar\, there is something about getting out of our own way and just being who we 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-11-2/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Which Is the Real You? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nWuzu asked\, “The woman Qian and her spirit separated. Which is the true Qian?”  \n–Gateless Gate Case 35 \nPerhaps it is because this koan about Qian came along to keep me company with last week’s koan about finding shelter for the homeless person\, or perhaps for no good reason at all that I find myself bringing this koan to our next gathering. \nThe Qian story is a Chinese folktale that predates Buddhism. The full-length version appears below. It is an example of the way the then foreign tradition of Buddhism got tangled up with and changed by the native culture\, a process which continues to this day as we carry it on in our own practice. \nAs a young man\, Wuzu studied Buddhist philosophy. One day a fellow student asked their professor\, “If subject and object are one\, how can that fact be realized?’’ The teacher responded\, “It is like drinking water and knowing personally whether it is warm or cold.” Wuzu said to himself\, “I know about warm and cold but I don’t know about ‘personally.’” Wuzu spoke about this to his professor\, who recommended that he seek out a Zen teacher. \nNot long after arriving at a Zen temple\, Wuzu heard a talk in which the teacher said\, “There are those who have had awakening experiences\, and when asked to speak\, they give beautiful talks. If you ask them about koans\, they answer clearly. If you ask them to write commentaries\, they do so nicely. Yet they have not attained it.” Hearing that\, Wuzu was confused and at the same time could feel the connection to his desire to “know it personally\,” which he did\, eventually. The Qian koan speaks to that personal knowing and its importance to Wuzu. Because of that importance\, we ask ourselves\, “Where is the koan in my life?” \n***** \nHere’s the long story about Qian: \nThere lived in Hanyang a man called Zhangken\, whose daughter Qian was of peerless beauty. He also had a nephew called Zhao\, a very handsome boy. The children played together and were fond of each other. Once Ken had jestingly said to his nephew\, “Someday I will marry you to my little daughter.” Both children remembered these words —and they believed themselves thus betrothed. \nWhen Qian grew up\, a man of rank asked for her in marriage\, and her father decided to comply with the demand. Qian was greatly troubled by this decision. As for Zhao\, he was so much angered \nand grieved that he resolved to leave home and go to another province. The next day he got a boat ready for his journey\, and after sunset\, without bidding farewell to anyone\, he proceeded up the \nriver. But in the middle of the night he was startled by a voice calling to him\, “Wait! It is me!” and he saw a girl running along the bank toward his boat. It was Qian. Zhao was unspeakably delighted. \nShe sprang into the boat and the lovers found their way safely to a remote province upriver. \nThere they lived happily for six years\, and they had two children. But Qian could not forget her parents and often longed to see them again. At last she said to her husband\, “Because in former times I could not bear to break the promise I made you\, I ran away with you and forsook my parents\, while knowing I owed them all possible duty and affection. Would it not now be well to try to obtain their forgiveness?” “Do not grieve yourself further\,” said Zhao. “We shall go to see them.” He ordered a boat to be prepared and a few days later returned with his wife to Hanyang. \nAccording to the custom\, the husband first went to the house of Ken\, leaving Qian alone in the boat. Ken welcomed his nephew with every sign of joy and said\, “How much I have been longing to see you! I was often afraid that something had happened to you.” Zhao answered respectfully\, “I am distressed by the undeserved kindness of your words. It is to beg your forgiveness that I have come.” But Ken did not seem to understand. He asked\, “To what matter do you refer?” “I feared” said Zhao\, “That you were angry with me for having run away with Qian. I took her with me to the province of Chuh.” “What Qian was that?” asked Ken. “Your daughter Qian” answered Zhao\, beginning to suspect his father-in-law of some malevolent design. “What are you talking about?” cried Ken\, with every appearance of astonishment. “My daughter Qian has been sick in bed all these years\, ever since the time when you went away.” “Your daughter Qian” returned Zhao\, becoming angry\, “has not been sick. She has been my wife for six years\, and we have two children—and we have both returned to this place only to seek your pardon. Therefore\, please do not mock us!”  \nFor a moment the two looked at each other in silence. Then Ken rose\, and motioning to his nephew to follow\, led the way to an inner room where a sick girl was lying. And Zhao\, to his utter amazement\, saw the face of Qian\, beautiful but strangely thin and pale. ‘‘She cannot speak\,” explained the old man\, “but she can understand. Ken said to her\, laughingly\, “Zhao tells me that you ran away with him\, and that you gave him two children.” The sick girl looked at Zhao and smiled but remained silent.  \n“Now come with me to the river\,” said the bewildered visitor to his father-in-law. “For I can assure you\, in spite of what I have seen in this house\, that your daughter Qian is at this moment in my boat.” \nThey went to the river\, and there\, indeed\, was the young wife\, waiting. And seeing her father\, she bowed down before him and sought his pardon. Ken said to her\, “If you are really my daughter\, I have nothing but love for you. Yet though you seem to be my daughter\, there is something which I cannot understand. Come with us to the house.”  \nSo the three proceeded toward the house. As they neared it\, they saw that the sick girl\, who had not left her bed for years\, was coming to meet them\, smiling as if much delighted. The two Qians approached each other\, and then—nobody could ever tell how—they suddenly melted into each other and became one body\, one person\, one Qian\, even more beautiful than before\, and showing no sign of sickness or sorrow. Ken said to Zhao\, “Ever since the day of your going\, my daughter was ill and like a person who had taken too much wine. Now I know that her spirit was absent.” Qian herself said\, “Really\, I never knew that I was at home. I saw Zhao going away in silent anger\, and the same night I dreamed that I ran after his boat. But now I cannot tell which was really me\, the one that went away in the boat\, or the one that stayed at home.” \n***** \nWhich “me” are you? \n—David Weinstein \nRead Susan Murphy’s Qian story\, published in PZI’s Uncertainty Club \nImage credit: Allison Atwill\, “Two Monks\,” 2015\, acrylic on birch panel with gold leaf (cropped) \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-10-5/
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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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NEXT SATURDAY CONVERSATION IS FEBRUARY 24th \nSIGN UP BELOW \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. \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE \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/2024-02-24/
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: Finding Shelter for the Homeless Person with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nTaking the form of Guanyin\, the Bodhisattva of Compassion\, find shelter for the homeless person. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koan \nSpending time with this koan about shelter for the homeless person\, another koan has also been keeping me company:  \nPut out the fire across the river. \nWith the arrival of the fire koan\, I found myself remembering being in India where many people were living on sidewalks and train platforms. I felt overwhelmed by the number of upturned palms that I encountered\, accompanied by the word baksheesh\, or “charity.”  \nI was newly launched in my Tibetan Buddhist practice\, in which we were encouraged to remember that in infinite previous rebirths we had all been each other’s mother. How do you say “No” when your mother is asking for charity? I couldn’t give to everyone who asked; I would have no money left myself. What to do? I tried techniques like giving to everyone who asked me on certain days and not to anyone on other days\, but that was not really satisfying. In the end\, I found that I could at least give my attention to each person who asked\, and remember that they had once been my mother as I gave them something or not and felt what I felt. \nHome leaver is a term that was used in reference to people who left home to devote their life to spiritual practice\, choosing homelessness as a way of life. But that homelessness is not one of a lack of home\, rather the experience of being at home anywhere\, even when saying\, “Sorry\, not today.”  \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-10-4/
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:20240213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Storehouse of Treasure with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe storehouse of treasures opens of itself.\nYou may take them and use them any way you wish. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koan (Dogen) \nA number of koans came along to keep me company as I was keeping company with this koan about the storehouse of treasures. The first one involves Mazu and it goes like this: \nMazu asked\, “What do you seek?”\n“Enlightenment\,” replied the student.\n“You have your own storehouse of treasure. Why do you search outside?”\nThe student asked\, “Where is my storehouse of treasure?”\nMazu answered\, “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure.” \nI hear echoes of Dogen’s “opens of itself” in Mazu’s “What you are asking is the storehouse of treasure.” Then\, a koan involving Yunmen came along to join in the conversation: \nA student asked Yunmen\, “This is not the function of mind. This is not the matter before me. What is it?”\nYunmen immediately cried\, “One teaching\, upside-down!” \nThat upside-downness in Yunmen’s response had a lively conversation with the “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure” from Mazu and the “opens of itself” of Dogen. \nAnd then another koan came along to join the party: \nA student asked Bukko\, “What is Zen?”\nBukko replied\, “The heart of the one who asks is Zen; you can’t get it from someone else’s words.” \nIt feels kind of like playing Scrabble using koans\, except I am watching it happen\, not doing it. Sometimes my meditation feels like that: I’m watching it happen\, but not doing it. \nDo you know what I mean? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nJOIN US on Tuesday for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. register 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-10-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: A Well That Was Never Dug with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn an undug well\, water ripples from a stream that does not flow.\nA person with no shape or form is drawing the water. \n—Ikkyu \nAs I have been sitting with this koan\, what comes to mind is the image of a very small lake\, about three feet in diameter\, with no bottom. There is no structure surrounding the water. \nSearching for an image to go with the koan\, I bumped into the Great Artesian Basin in Australia. It is the largest and deepest aquifer in the world\, stretching over 660\,000 square miles. It is 9\,800 feet deep\, in places holding an estimated 15\,600 cubic miles of groundwater. \nIt is hard to imagine 15\,600 cubic miles of water\, almost as hard as imagining that we each contain the universe and thus we have no shadow or form. \nIf water reaches the ground surface under the natural pressure of the aquifer\, it is called a flowing artesian well. The thing is\, the water in the aquifer is not flowing\, though it is a “flowing artesian well.” It ripples but does not flow. Interesting that Ikkyu’s study of himself led to observations of something paralleled in nature—and how often that is true. \nWe are each flowing Artesian wells of wisdom and compassion. Drawing the water requires no special effort; it is always readily available. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nJOIN US on Tuesday for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. register to participate. All are welcome \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-10-2/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY NOTE: Stone Woman Gives Birth – Note from David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY MEETING TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is in Winter Sesshin. Tuesday meetings resume February 6—come join us then! \n\nThe stone woman gives birth in the middle of the night. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koan \nKoan practice is a conversational art: a conversation between ourselves and a koan\, a conversation between ourselves and ourselves\, a conversation between ourselves and the world around us. \nThere a lot of references to “the dark” in koans. Being in the dark is about not knowing\, the way that the pandemic threw and continues to throw us all into a place of not knowing. Should I be wearing a mask? A seed germinating in the dark doesn’t know it is a seed\, it is just doing what it does\, naturally\, without thoughts about it being too dark or wishing for more light. \nUnlike seeds\, we think we know what we are and what we are doing. When we are in the dark\, our natural impulse is to want more light so we can see more clearly where we are going. \nThe ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes was very much in the dark about how to determine whether the king’s crown was pure gold or not. Having struggled with the problem\, he took a break for a bath and as he lowered himself into the water and noticed the level of the water rising\, he saw the light in the midst of his dark. \nIt is said that he ran naked through the streets crying\, “Eureka\, I have found it!” That’s what happens in koan practice; we’re in the dark about the koan and we struggle with it and in the midst of the struggle there is light. Then we run through the streets of our mind naked of all of the stories we have been wearing about who we are and the way things work. \nIt’s like being born. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \n  \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Fortunately\, I'm Here – with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:Yunyan was making tea. Daowu asked him\, “Who are you making tea for?”\nYunyan said\, “Someone who wants it.”\n“Why don’t you get them to make it for themselves?”\n“Fortunately\, I’m here to do it.” \nAs I have been sitting with the death of Corey Hitchcock and my feelings and this koan\, the koan has morphed into: \nYunyan was feeling the loss of a friend. Daowu asked him\, “Who are you feeling the loss of a friend for?” Yunyan said\, “Someone who needs it.” Daowu responded\, “Why don’t they feel it for themselves?” Yunyan replied\, “Fortunately I’m here to do it.” \nThat morphed koan doesn’t exactly make sense\, but koans often don’t make sense and yet feel right. It resonates with the way the messages on PZI talk relating to Corey’s death not only express what I am feeling but help me feel what I am feeling. In that way we support ourselves and each other to feel what we’re feeling\, which is part of the chop wood\, carry water dimension of the practice. Feel what you feel. \nWho was that someone whom Yunyan was making tea for? \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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240116T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: What Does the One Return To? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAll things return to the One.\nWhat does the One return to? \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koan Collection \nWhen I sit with this koan\, a passage from the Heart Sutra comes along to keep us company: \nForm is emptiness\, emptiness is form;\nForm is exactly emptiness\, emptiness is exactly form;\nWhatever is form is emptiness\, whatever is emptiness is form. \nWhich in my mind morphs into: \nForm is the One\, the One is form; \nForm is exactly the One\, the One is exactly form; \nWhatever is form is the One\, whatever is the One is form. \nThen another koan involving “the One” comes along: \nWhen all things return to the One\, even gold loses its value.\nWhen the One returns to all things even pebbles sparkle like jewels. \nThen I find myself remembering all those messages on PZI Talk about Corey being everywhere. How there are moments in our accompaniment of Corey on her journey\, in whatever way we do as a community\, that sparkle like jewels.  \nCan you see them? Can you feel them? \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-9-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Buddha's Hand? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHuanglong asked\, “How is my hand like the Buddha’s hand?”\nLongqing answered\, “Playing guitar in the moonlight.” \n—Entangling Vines Case 10 \nWhen I heard about this being the koan for the morning meditation\, the first thing that popped into my mind was holding Corey Hitchcock’s hand as she lay in her hospital bed in a morphine dream. I didn’t know whose hand was whose. \nThis question about the Buddha’s hand from Huanglong is one of three questions that form what is called Huanglong’s Three Barriers. The other two questions are\, “How is my leg like a donkey’s leg?” and “In the world of karma\, everyone has a birthplace. What is yours?” \nHuanglong always presented students with these three statements but no one could come up with a satisfactory response. Even with the few who gave answers\, Huanglong would neither agree nor disagree but only sit there in formal posture with eyes closed. When asked for his reason\, Huanglong replied\, “Those who have passed through the gate shake their sleeves and go straight on their way. What do they care if there’s a gatekeeper? Those who seek the gatekeeper’s permission have yet to pass through.” \nI’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the response of “Playing guitar in the moonlight\,” but I would ask the person to show it to me\, to make it more intimate. That’s where the integration of the practice into our lives is happening. Miming playing a guitar doesn’t do it. I’d then ask\, “What if you don’t know how to play guitar?” After showing what it is in the moment\, I’d ask\, “What is it in your life?” Huanglong sat silently in response; I ask questions. \nHow would you make it more intimate?  \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: Are You Afraid of This Happiness? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAre you afraid of this happiness?  \n—Shakyamuni \nThis quote comes from the story about Siddhartha’s journey to awakening. One version of the passage goes like this: \nSiddhartha is a child\, not quite school age. He lies under a rose-apple tree\, alone for a moment\, unattended. A light breeze touches his face\, there is dappled shade and the scent of grass. His eyes move slowly over the paddock. Nothing is on his mind. There is no fear\, no tension\, no desire. A question appears in his mind\, the way a bird appears in the sky. The question is\, “Am I afraid of this happiness?” \nWhat strikes me about this koan is remembering how it appears in two places in the story of Siddhartha’s journey. Once when he is a child and again as he sits under the Bodhi Tree throughout his awakening experience. \nThere is a déjà vu quality to awakening experiences which is sometimes described as remembering that which we didn’t know we had forgotten. What we didn’t know we have forgotten is something we all don’t know we have forgotten—our experience of the place of no fear\, no desire and no tension. We have all had those experiences\, perhaps in childhood or another time\, but either way we have forgotten them. \nIt is said that Zen mind is beginner’s mind\, whether that happens in childhood or any other time in life. The mind of no fear\, no tension and no desire. Awakening is remembering one of those experiences with our whole being. \nDo you know what I mean? \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: Who Built This House? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe Flower Garland Sutra says\,\n\nNow when I look at all beings everywhere\,\nI see that each of them possesses the wisdom and virtue of awakening\,\nbut because of their attachments and delusions\,\nthey cannot bear witness to it. \n—Book of Serenity Case 67 \nAs I have spent time with this koan\, what stands out is how different this quote from the Flower Garland Sutra—attributed to Shakyamuni regarding his awakening—is from what was recorded in the much older Dhammapada. \nThe Dhammapada was composed in the ancient Indian Pali language\, and is considered one of the earliest and most widely read texts in the Buddhist tradition\, particularly the Theravada Buddhist tradition. The Flower Garland Sutra\, on the other hand\, is a Mahayana Buddhist scripture\, and its origins are more complex. It evolved over centuries\, with different parts composed at different times. The Chinese translation of the Flower Garland Sutra was completed during the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317–420 CE)\, nearly 500 years after the Dhammapada\, which itself was composed about 500 years after Shakyamuni. \nSo we can’t say that either text reliably records what Shakyamuni said about his awakening. But they do demonstrate two very different styles of practicing that evolved over time. We can look at them as examples of the way the tradition changed and continues to change\, and how we and the way we are practicing are part of that evolution. \nThe account reported in the Dhammapada regarding Sakyamuni’s awakening experience is as follows: \nI wandered through the rounds of countless births\,\nSeeking but not finding the builder of this house.\nSorrowful indeed is birth again and again.\nOh\, house builder!\nYou have now been seen.\nYou shall build the house no longer.\nAll your rafters have been broken\, your ridgepole shattered.\nMy mind has attained to unconditional freedom.\nAchieved is the end of craving. \nThat is a very different spirit than what is in the Flower Garland Sutra\, don’t you think? \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: Blade of Grass with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe World-Honored One was walking with his assembly.\nHe pointed to the ground and said\, “This place is good for building a temple.”\nIndra took a stalk of grass and stuck it in the ground. \nShe said\, “The temple has been built.” \nAs I spend more time this koan\, I find myself remembering all the many places the Oakland group has meditated since 1989. Initially it was in a tiny student apartment of the Graduate Theological Seminary\, where we sat in a living room lined with bookcases. We sat facing the wall in those days\, so we sat facing a wall of books\, an interesting something to have in front of the eyes that were not open nor closed.  \nThen there were a couple of Montessori kindergartens\, where we had to move all the little chairs and desks out of the way and sit facing art done by the students or the latest project in a terrarium\, right at eye level. When one of those kindergartens had a fire and we had to find a place with no notice\, we reached out to Jerry Brown. He had been in Kamakura for nine months practicing at the San Un Zendo\, and shared the house in which I was living. We hoped he might have a suggestion for us\, and he did: his living room. We sat for about four years in that living room\, in the American Bag Company building\, while his We the People headquarters was being built on the adjoining lot. To say it was his living room would be an overstatement—it was a cavernous space on the second floor where Jerry had his bedroom. There was another room that we used for conversations. When Jerry moved from there to the We the People building\, we were invited to join the community there.  \nThen there was the Unitarian church where another meditation group used the room below us while we gathered\, complaining that we made too much noise as we meditated. We never got a complaint from Art’s Crab Shack\, our next location\, a bar and restaurant above which we sat for about eight years. I still miss feeling the floorboards vibrating with the sound of the jukebox as we meditated\, and the roar of fans during Monday Night Football.  \nThere was the office of an environmental engineer—a member of the group—where I had conversations with folks in the men’s bathroom. It was quite a nice room with a high ceiling\, nice brick walls and judicious placement of shoji screens so you wouldn’t know it was a bathroom except for the sign on the door.  \nAnd there was the employee lounge of a consulting group which specialized in helping cannabis dispensaries set up business. Due to the nature of their business\, a high percentage of employees used ‘medicine’ and the lounge was the designated place to do it. It was designated the ‘Medication/Meditation Room.’  \nBefore moving to Rockridge\, there was a suite of three offices in the fruit and vegetable district of downtown Oakland. When we met\, early in the morning\, for conversations\, the streets were bustling with trucks and forklifts getting produce out to markets and restaurants. In the evening when we met\, it was deserted and kind of spooky. Several folks didn’t feel comfortable going there.  \nThen\, finally\, there was Rockridge\, our first 24/7 space\, and it was great for another eight years. Interestingly\, the woman who ran the hair salon downstairs also complained that we made too much noise when we meditated.  \nAnd then there was the pandemic and Zoom. \nTo be at home in whatever situation arises is what Linji meant when he said “Take the role of host and you will be in a true place.” That is the place we cultivate with our meditation practice\, wherever we put our blade of grass.  \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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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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