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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/
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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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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
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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 
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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/
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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/
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-9-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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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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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Shadow of the Whip with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAn outsider asked the Buddha\, “I do not ask for the spoken; I do not ask for the unspoken.”\nThe Buddha just sat still.\nThe outsider praised him\, saying\, “The Buddha with his great compassion and mercy has opened the clouds of my delusion and enabled me to enter the Way.”\nHe then made bows and took his leave.\nAnanda asked\, “What did that outsider realized to make him praise you?”\nThe World-Honored One said\, “He is like the fine horse who runs even at the shadow of a whip.”  \n—Gateless Barrier Case 32 \nAs I’ve been hanging out with this koan\, more than the shadow of the whip\, it has been Ananda’s shadow that I’ve been noticing\, and my kinship with him. Ananda was the first cousin of the Buddha and one of his principal disciples. He entered the order of monks in the second year of the Buddha’s ministry and in the twenty-fifth year was appointed his personal attendant. He is credited with convincing the Buddha to let women join the order. However\, he was the last of the Buddha’s principal disciples to have an awakening\, despite the fact that Ananda had perfect recall and could remember every teaching the Buddha ever gave. \nIn this story\, Ananda had not yet had an awakening experience\, despite his many years of devoted practice. Yet here is this outsider\, asking a question and getting awakened. Just like that! How would you feel if you were Ananda? I know how I felt as I watched others pass through the gate\, and it wasn’t pretty. But that is my dream of this koan. What is yours? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\,\nDirector of Rockridge Meditation Community
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Transfer of Merit with Mrs. Pang – with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day Mrs. Pang went into the Deer Gate Temple to make an offering of food. \nThe temple priest asked her the purpose of the offering in order to transfer the merit. \nMrs. Pang took her comb and stuck it in the back of her hair. \n“Transference of merit is completed\,” she said\, and walked out. \nI once complained to Yamada Roshi that I wasn’t meeting him as often as I would like to\, which was an important milestone in my practice\, being able to tell my teacher something I wasn’t happy about in our relationship. His response was\, “You should go slow.” Hearing that\, I knew he was right and felt a great sense of relief at having been seen clearly by someone else. \nI have found that trying to bring the koan on Tuesday evenings that we sit with during the same week is too fast for me. I would still like to have the opportunity for discussion about a koan that we sit with for one week\, and have decided to do that the week after we sit with it: I need to go slow. \nSo next week on Tuesday\, we will be sitting with this story about transferring merit. I learned how to meditate with the Tibetans who talked a lot about transferring merit\, but nothing like the way Mrs. Pang demonstrates it in this koan. \nThe interconnectedness of everything with everything is spoken to in a Chinese proverb that says\, “The flapping of the wings of a butterfly can be felt on the other side of the world.” That is how we wake all the beings of the world. \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-8-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Bathing\, Not Purifying! with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas. They all got into the bath together and realized the cause of water. They called out\, “This subtle touch reveals the light that is in everything.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 78 \nI just got back from a couple of weeks in Japan where there was a lot of “entering the bath together” for me. The place where we stay has two communal baths\, one for men and one for women\, that open at six am and close at midnight. Often\, I would see the same people at nine or ten at night and then again at 6:00 the next morning. Though there was a fair bit of scrubbing that went on\, for me and for the others that I spoke with\, getting into the bath wasn’t about getting clean. \nThe same was true for the sixteen bodhisattvas in the version of this story that appears in the Surangama Sutra. In that version of the story\, it goes on to say\, “We did not wash off dirt\, did not wash the body. We achieved peace of mind and obtained the state of no-possession.” \nIf you have ever entered a bath so hot that once you were in you didn’t want to move because each movement renewed the experience of first entering the water\, which was no easy matter\, then I think you have some idea of what obtaining a “state of no-possession” is like. As if to emphasize the point\, Xuedou\, who first collected the one hundred cases of the Blue Cliff Record\, commented about it in his verse about this case\, “If the sixteen ancients said they were enlightened\, let them emerge from the scented water\, and I would spit at them!” \nWe don’t do this practice to purify ourselves\, to rid ourselves of impurities like delusions. If you are\, watch out for Xuedou’s spit. \n–David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nCOME JOIN US us on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\,\nDirector of Rockridge Meditation Community \n  \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-7-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is away\, returning November 28. \nHope to see you then! \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US 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-7-4/
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: If You Meet a Swordsman with Guest Host Todd Geist
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked Mazu\, “What is Buddha?”\nMazu said\, “Not mind\, not Buddha.” \n—The Gateless Gate\, Case 33 \nI just returned from our great fall retreat. It was a powerful experience. In some ways\, I feel like I am still there\, surrounded by the silent silhouettes of the whole sangha. Everyone—deep in meditation. \nOn returning\, this koan and its accompanying verse have been following me around.\nThey seem to have something to say to me about the whole matter. \nPresent a sword if you meet a swordsman\,\ndon’t offer a poem\, unless you meet a poet.\nWhen speaking\, say one-third of it\,\ndon’t give the whole thing away at once. \nWhat do they say to you? \n—Todd Geist \n(Note: David Weinstein is away this week) \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nCOME JOIN US us on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\,\nDirector of Rockridge Meditation Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-7-3/
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:TUESDAY ZEN: Wild Places with Guest Host Jan Brogan
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThis Week: Guest Host Jan Brogan \nPeople go to wild places to search for their true nature.\nWhen you do this\, where is your true nature? \n—Going to Wild Places (PZI Misc Koans\, Case 73a: 1st of Doushuai’s 3 Barriers) \nPeople go to wild places looking for their true nature—I have gone to wild places looking for my true nature: backpacking\, hiking\, driving to work\, attending a week-long meditation retreat. John Tarrant often says\, “A question means a journey.” When I do this\, where is my true nature? \nI recently returned from our fall sesshin where I took the role of timekeeper. All my doubts arose about doing it right\, making mistakes\, being in the dark zendo sitting with everyone for hours a day. \nThat’s the wild place where I felt the joy of ringing the bells\, seeing your faces\, all of us together searching for our true nature. \nI’ll ring bells for you on Tuesday as we step into the wild place of our hearts. \n—Jan Brogan \n(David Weinstein is away this week) \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US 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-7-2/
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:20231031T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231031T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Ordinary Rafts Are the Way with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Yaoshan expressed doubt about being ready to go off on his own\, Mazu told him\, “One cannot always be traveling without abiding\, nor always be abiding without traveling. To advance from where you can no longer advance\, and to do what can no longer be done\, you must make yourself into a raft or ferryboat for others. It is not for you to abide here forever.” \nYaoshan started out with Shitou as his teacher. But Shitou told Yaoshan that circumstances were not right for him to attain awakening there\, so he referred him to Mazu. Yaoshan served as Mazu’s attendant for three years after his awakening experience. It was at that time that Mazu told Yaoshan he needed to go off and set up shop for himself. \nHaving myself had the experience of being told by a teacher that there were no karmic causes for me to become awakened with them\, and having been referred by one teacher to another teacher\, and having left one teacher and gone to another teacher to explore a different path\, and having had two teachers at the same time are all ways in which this koan has resonated within me. \nYou don’t have to be a Zen teacher for Mazu’s advice to hit home. There are many ways of making yourself a raft. \nHave you ever noticed what happens on a crowded freeway where traffic is entering from an on-ramp? Things can come to a standstill as people refuse to yield space to the merging traffic. But if you make space for someone to enter the stream\, others notice and some do the same. If more folks would do that\, the traffic would not come to a standstill. \nI think that’s one ordinary mind is a kind of way of making yourself a raft. \nWhat are yours? \n\nFurther musings from sesshin\, on Mazu’s Whole Meaning of Life: \nThe whole meaning of your life rests in the current matter.  —Mazu \nThe whole meaning of my life is sitting here writing this copy for the newsletter? I would have hoped for more. Maybe I need to look into what “whole meaning” means. There’s another conversation that involves Mazu that seems to throw some light on it: \nSomeone asked\, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West?”\nMazu responded\, “What does this mean\, here and now?” \nOther times\, Mazu answered the same question various ways such as: \n“What is the meaning of your asking at this moment?” \n“I’m not in the mood today. Go and ask Zhizang.” \n“Come a little nearer\, and I’ll tell you.” When the student went over to Mazu\,\nMazu kicked them so hard that they fell over. \nMazu kept silent. \n“Rush flowers\, willow catkins\, bamboo needle\, and hemp thread.” \nPerhaps we can get a better sense of what “meaning” means by appreciating that all of the above responses are not ways of avoiding answering the question or even answers to the question\, they are living\, breathing\, experiences of the answer. \nWhen I think about it that way\, writing this copy for the newsletter being the whole meaning of my life is not such a bad thing. As a matter of fact\, it’s kind of great. \n—David \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US us on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. All are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\,\nDirector of Rockridge Meditation Community \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5-5/
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:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is away in PZI Fall Sesshin\, returning October 31st. \nHope to see you then! \n\n \n  \nCOME JOIN US next week for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein/
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: Sun Face = Moon Face with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMazu was sick. The superintendent of the monastery asked him\,\n“How are you feeling these days?”\nMazu said\, “Sun Face Buddha\, Moon Face Buddha.” \nSun Face Buddhas live for 1800 years\, Moon Face Buddhas live for one day—which would you rather be? This koan isn’t about long or short. I hear echoes of Mazu saying he never lacked for salt or sauce. It is said that the mind is like tofu and takes the shape of any container it is put into\, but the point isn’t the shape that the tofu takes\, neither is it the shape that our minds take. \nMazu had an idea about what practice looked like\, which his teacher likened to trying to polish a roofing tile into a mirror. If you think a Moon Face Buddha is less than a Sun Face Buddha\, you’re polishing a roofing tile also. If you think you can judge your practice by any measure whatsoever\, you are also polishing a roofing tile. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US 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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5-4/
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: Flavors of Life with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen asked\, “How is it?” Mazu said “For thirty years following confusion\, \nthere has never been a lack of salt and soy sauce.” \nThis koan brought back memories of a two-week retreat I did with Lama Zopa and some other people at his cave in Lawudo\, near Mount Everest. Not much grows at that altitude except potatoes. They never get very big because the growing season is so short. That’s all we had to eat for two weeks. On some days we had salt\, which was quite a special occasion. It transformed the potatoes into a multifaceted banquet. \nI hear Mazu saying something similar about the effect of practice on our life. Just as salt and soy sauce bring out the flavors of what they are put on\, our practice brings out the flavors of our life. \nWhat is salt and soy sauce in your life? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US 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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5-3/
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:TUESDAY ZEN: Are You Hiding the Loot? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDamei asked Mazu\, “What is awakening?”\nMazu said\, “This very mind is awakening.” \nThis koan is Case 30 in the Gateless Barrier collection. In the verse he composed as a response to this koan\, Wumen said: \n“‘What is awakening?’ you ask. Hiding the loot\, you declare your innocence.” \nWumen’s verse reminds me of a time when I was visiting my grandparents. I had snuck into the kitchen to get a cookie\, which was in my grandmother’s ceramic owl cookie jar. After tiptoeing into the kitchen slowly to not make any sound\, I carefully lifted the head off the owl and placed it on the counter\, again careful to not make any sound. I had to stand on my toes to reach up and into the space where the owl’s head had been\, and then down into the bowels of the owl to snag a cookie. Just as my fingers reached a cookie my grandmother came into the kitchen and said “What are you doing?” And I said\, “Nothing.” \nAs I look back on that experience\, I realize that the loot I was hiding was not the cookie. Had I not been hiding the ‘real’ loot\, I would have said\, “I’m getting a cookie.” \nGot any loot you’re hiding? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US 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\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5-2/
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: Wasting Time – with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nShitou came upon Yaoshan meditating and asked him\, “What are you doing?”\nYaoshan said\, “I am not doing anything.”\nShitou asked\, “Why are you sitting here wasting time?”\nYaoshan replied\, “If I was wasting time\, that would be doing something.”\nShitou asked\, “What is this ‘doing nothing’ that you are talking about?”\nYaoshan replied\, “Not even the ten thousand sages know.” \nI often feel like I’m a sloth. They move slowly traveling an average of forty yards a day and snooze about fifteen hours a day. They spend a majority of time in the canopy of trees\, coming down only once a week to relieve themselves … that sounds good\, no waking up multiple times a night. They spend most of their lives hanging upside-down— eating\, sleeping\, and even giving birth. Their curved claws allow them to hang from branches effortlessly. Sometimes they continue hanging from a branch even after they have died. I was surprised and happy to find that sloths are excellent swimmers\, which is another way I feel connected to them. \nWe have an online retreat beginning this week. There are all kinds of activities that go on during a retreat. Meditating\, eating\, sleeping\, having conversations about practice\, going for walks\, and deepening connections with friends. And yet\, it feels very much like what Yaoshan was talking about when he said he was doing nothing. \nThat effortless way sloths hang from branches is like the effortless way my meditation practice keeps me company\, especially when I’m doing not-doing anything. Just hanging around with a koan. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US us on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-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: Who Has Bound You? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk asked\, “What is liberation?”\nShitou said\, “Who has bound you?”\nAnother monk asked\, “What is the Pure Land?”\nShitou said\, “Who has polluted you?”\nAnother monk asked\, “What is nirvana?”\nShitou said\, “Who has given you birth and death?” \nAs we’ve been spending time with Shitou this week and last\, I’ve been struck by a couple of things. First\, the way he sounds Jewish to me. Asking all those questions\, “What makes you think you have lost it?”; “Why are you asking me?”; and then all these questions about “Who has … ?”—I can hear him speaking with a Yiddish accent\, saying\, “Nu\, who’s bound you?” \nI was raised Jewish and have wondered if that is connected to the way my mind generates so many questions. My parents told me that my first words were “wat dat?”  \nThe Jewish tradition has been about asking questions from the beginning. Abraham asking God questions about his desire to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah as he attempted to persuade God not to do it. I can feel a resonance with the Chan spirit of inquiry and questioning of koan practice. I also like the idea of being able to argue with God. In the Jewish tradition some of the highest praise you can receive is to hear someone say to you\, “That’s a good question.” \nThe second thing I was struck by was the way I found Shitou sounding like Socrates—that Socratic method of asking questions in response to questions\, as a way of directing the questioner back to themselves for the answer. The method of answering questions with questions\, in order to let the questioner realize that they can find the answer that was in them all along is called maieutics. It comes from the Greek word that means “to give birth.” \nAgain\, I’m reminded of koan practice. Appreciating that Socrates was practicing his questioning inquiry style of teaching a thousand years before Shitou. Awakening has no time or country. \nWhat does this conversation with Shitou stir up for you? What resonates in your life? \nGo ahead\, you can’t be wrong. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David Weinstein\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
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LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN: I Don't Understand – with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nNEW DAY & TIME: TUESDAYS\, 6–7:30 PM Pacific Time \n\nA student asked\, ‘What is the meaning of the coming from the west?”\nShitou answered\, “Go and ask a stone pillar.” \nThe student said\, “I’m only a student\, I don’t understand.” \nShitou said\, “I don’t either.” \nI’m with Shitou\, I don’t understand either. Another koan comes to mind. That koan invites me to hide in a stone pillar. But I still don’t understand. Do you? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David Weinstein\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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