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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: One Who Is Not Busy - with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne Who Is Not Busy \nOnce when Yunyan was sweeping the ground\, Daowu said\, “Busy\, busy!”\nYunyan said\, “You should know that there’s someone who isn’t busy.”\n“If that’s the case\, there’s a second moon.”\nYunyan held up his broom and asked\, “Which moon is this?”\nDaowu remained silent and left. \n—Book of Serenity Case 21\n\nWhen I watch myself doing what I know is not in my best interests\, who is watching and who is being watched? Is it the same me as the one who is unskillfully doing whatever he is doing? Or are they different? The opening lines of the Heart Sutra come to mind\,  \nForm is emptiness\, Emptiness is form. Form is exactly emptiness\, Emptiness exactly form. The same is true of feeling and perception. The same is true of memory and consciousness.  \nThe one watching is exactly the one being watched\, the one being watched is exactly the one watching. That doesn’t make sense\, but then neither does life. How do we respond to that? \nWhen Yunyan responds to Daowu’s comment about being busy by saying\, “You should know that there is one who is not busy\,” it sounds as if Yunyan is chiding Daowu for not appreciating that there is one who is not busy—he should know better. In the course of their relationship\, starting with practicing together with Baizhang\, leaving Baizhang together\, then going to practice together with Nanquan\, and then leaving Nanquan together to go practice with Yaoshan; it is Daowu who again and again (and again) proves himself to be the one who knows better. \nFor his part\, Daowu seems to be checking his friend’s understanding about the relationship between the one who is busy and the one who is not\, between the one who is watching and the one who is watched. Yunyan seems to be saying that form and emptiness are separate from each other\, the one who is busy and the one who is not busy are not the same. The me who is watching me is not the same me who is being watched. Responding to this\, Daowu tells Yunyan that if he thinks they are different then that is the same as thinking there is a second moon. \nAre they the same? Are they different? Answering either way leave you hanging on one or the other of the horns of the dilemma. Yunyan cuts through the dilemma\, thrusting his broom into the air and asking\, “Which moon is this?” Tossing the ball back into Daowu’s court. In response Daowu was silent and then leaves. His way of cutting through the dilemma that Yunyan presented to him. \nForm and emptiness\, our phenomenal self and our true self\, are the same and different\, not two\, not one. Responding to that paradox is the integration of our practice into our life. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Your Own Radiance with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA monk said to Yunmen\, “The radiance serenely illumines the whole universe…”\nBefore he had finished the line\, Yunmen interrupted him and asked\, “Are those the words of Zhangzhuo?”\nThe monk said\, “Yes\, they are.”\nYunmen said\, “You have misspoken.” \n—Gateless Gate Case 39 \nI was recently asked to help find the origin of a koan involving Bankei\, a 17th Century Japanese Zen teacher. The version of the story I was asked about goes like this: \nBankei was approached by a priest who boasted that his master possessed miraculous powers. This master could take a brush and write Amida in the air and the word would appear on a sheet of paper in the distance. Challenged to equal this\, Bankei replied\, “My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat\, and when I feel thirsty I drink.”\n\nI checked all the English translations of Bankei that I am aware of\, and found one place where he says something about eating when hungry and sleeping when tired\, but no miracle is mentioned. I also found that Yuanwu in the 11th century\, and both Dazhu Huihai and Linji in the 8th century\, also said something about eating when hungry\, sleeping when tired. \nSo\, the source of the ‘miracle’ of Zen became complicated. Was it Huihai and Linji because they are the earliest record of it? And what about the ‘miracle’ part? It was about then that Yunmen’s ‘You have misspoken’ paid me a visit. \nThis quote from Yunmen reminds me of a quote that is attributed to Picasso\, “Good artists borrow\, great artists steal.” Picasso had an ‘African Period\,’ when he painted in a style strongly influenced by African sculpture\, particularly traditional African masks. I wonder how Picasso would have responded had Yunmen asked him about his art being influenced by African sculpture and masks. I suspect Picasso would have answered in a way that would not have resulted in Yunmen saying\, “You have misspoken.” \nA couple of other koans involving Yunmen came along while keeping company with the ‘misspoken’ koan. One involved the question to Yunmen\, “How about when one makes a hole in the wall in order to steal the neighbor’s light?” to which he responded\, “That’s it!” Another koan that came along was the occasion of Yunmen advising a student\, “Forget about the light\, show me the reaching.” \nThere were also echoes of Yunmen’s teacher Muzhou’s teacher Huangbo\, who likened some students to ‘gobblers of brewer’s dregs’ in the way they practiced. In this koan about misspeaking\, I can hear Yunmen once again encouraging us to reach and even steal. Picasso was encouraging artists to reach beyond themselves\, beyond stealing\, or borrowing\, or even creating. \nThere are unlimited commentaries on koans that we can read—various people saying what they believe a koan is about. Looking to those commentaries as a way to become intimate with the koan is like trying to get to know somebody based only on what other people have written about them. You can’t really get to know somebody that way.  \nHowever\, having met the person\, reading what someone else may have written about them can be interesting\, as we agree or disagree with what someone else has to say\, we become more intimate with what we know to be true for ourselves. When we know what is true for ourselves\, it doesn’t matter where it came from\, it comes from us and then we are not misspeaking. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: A Unifying Brightness with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere is a solitary brightness without fixed shape or form. \nIt knows how to listen to what is true\, \nit knows how to understand what is true\, \nit knows how to teach what is true. \nThat solitary brightness is you. \n—Linji \nLast week\, each host of the early morning meditation brought this koan from Linji about solitary brightness. I found myself remembering the words of Harada Daiun Sogaku\, one of our ancestors from the early twentieth century\, who said that without dokusan—the conversation with a teacher about your experience with a koan—there is no Zen practice. Times change and practices change\, and now it is not just with teachers that people are having conversations about their experience with koans—we are encouraging everybody to speak with each other about their experience with koans\, in koan salons and cohort groups and on Wednesday evenings when I host a gathering. So I bring this koan so we may have conversations about our experience with it and in doing so “practice Zen.” \nAs we share our field notes about our experience with the koan\, sometimes we recognize part of our own experience in what others say. Sometimes we appreciate what others report as being different\, a different window in on the koan from mine\, which increases my feeling of intimacy with it and with the other person who is sharing their experience. Either way\, we can appreciate that we are not alone. In that way\, the “solitary” part of the brightness is not due to being separate or isolated\, but rather recognizing our unity with everything and everyone—and in that place there is only one. It is reminiscent of the words of the baby Buddha upon birth declaring\, “I alone\, the world honored one.” \nSolitary brightness is the brightness of the moon\, not the sun. It softly penetrates even rocks and stones and illuminates them long after the moon has set. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate.
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: What Mask? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nNew Year’s Day: \nYear after year\, \na monkey puts on \na monkey’s mask. \n—Basho \nBasho wrote this poem on New Year’s Day\, 1693. 1692 had been a difficult year for him\, perhaps reflected in his comment that\, “My New Year’s poem on the monkey is a completely bungled poem.” He had been caring for his ill nephew Toin\, who had a wife and three children. Toin had died in April\, and by mid-August\, Basho had shut himself off from all visitors. During this time\, he wrote that\, “Crushed by other people and their needs\, I can find no calmness of mind.” \nThis last year and the two before that have been hard for us too. Amidst the pandemic and accompanying instability\, we could easily find ourselves joining Basho in finding no calmness of mind.  \nNew Year’s can be a time of marking a new beginning\, a time of rededication to aspirations and goals. After a hard year\, marking a new beginning feels particularly attractive. Basho must have felt very much that way at the end of 1692. \nBasho considered his monkey haiku “bungled\,” but I believe his judgment was clouded by the experiences of his difficult year. In his haiku\, Basho notices what he has been doing\, year after year (after year.) Noticing how his resolutions to change\, to break new ground\, not only at the New Year but with each new poem he was writing\, were just like putting a monkey’s mask on a monkey: nothing changes\, nothing new.  \nI can hear Basho’s advice to his students\, as he reminded them of the 9th-century poet and priest Kukai’s words: \nDo not follow the ancient masters\, seek what they sought. \nBasho himself composed a haiku that spoke to this\, “Don’t copy me\, like the second half of a cut melon!” Basho was also speaking to himself\, reminding himself to not copy himself—putting a Basho mask on his Basho face. \nOur meditation practice is like this. With each moment\, we are faced with the possibility of not putting the mask of previous moments on the present moment\, of not putting masks of ourselves on our faces.  \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221214T190000
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Who Is Locked In? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOnce a 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 go to visit a family crypt. It is a stone mausoleum in the cemetery. You go at night when there is no moon. You decide to open the gate and go in to be nearer your ancestors. It is pitch black. A fierce gust of wind blows your candle out and you hear the heavy gate slam shut behind you. There is no one around. There are no windows and the door is locked from the outside—how will you get out?  \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans\, Case 20 \nI’ve been in a three-way conversation between me\, the goose in the bottle\, and finding myself locked in a stone crypt. In both koans we are asked\, “How do you get out?” \nThe perspectives seem to be different. In one I am locked in\, and in the other it’s the goose who’s locked in. But who is that goose\, really? And who is the woman who raises the goose in the bottle\, really? As with dreams\, it is helpful to explore the way that I am everything appearing in the koan or dream. \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 can find myself. \nSometimes I’m in the dark about how I’m 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 that knowledge is not helping\, and sometimes it 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 it was done intentionally\, this placing of myself into a bottle. Seeing that can help\, so long as I don’t judge myself for being an idiot\, or worse. \nIn some ways they appear to be the same koan\, the same situation: I am confined and trying to get out. Though the koans “Hide in a pillar\,” and “Hide in a bell\,” appear to present the same situation\, still\, we inquire into each as also presenting something unique. In both situations there is something to be discovered about being the same and being different\, like you and me. \nAnd in the cases of the goose and crypt\, in each there is something about getting out of our own way and just being who we are. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Alive Together in Practice with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nZen teachers say they have received the teaching from Shakyamuni Buddha. \nI say that I practice together with Old Man Shakyamuni and the third son of Xie. \n—Xuansha (Xie was Xuansha’s family name) \nRecently we went down to the beach in Atami\, a seaside city southwest of Tokyo. It has been a resort for centuries due to its numerous natural hot springs and it was where we were visiting my wife’s mother. When we arrived at the beach we saw six people competing in what at first glance appeared to be a triathlon of some kind. They were running in the sand out to a yellow cone one hundred meters away\, rounding it and running back. Then they jumped into the water and swam out and back to a yellow buoy that looked to be two hundred meters away. Then ran the sand course again\, after which they got on surf boards and paddled out to the yellow buoy and returned. Ran another lap in the sand and then got back in the water\, this time with flippers and towing a buoy on a long cord out to the yellow buoy and back\, after which the final lap in the sand. \nOne person was clearly the fastest\, followed ten seconds later by the second fastest person. One person was clearly the slowest. They didn’t even start the flipper and buoy swim until everybody else had already finished the race. What struck me was how everybody was cheering them on. Not only cheering them on\, but the fastest and second fastest competitors got back in the water and swam alongside the slowest person yelling encouragement while swimming along. They then ran the sand course together with the last place finisher\, continuing to yell encouragements as they ran. As I watched I thought\, “You wouldn’t see that in the States.” But I was wrong. \nThe picture accompanying this piece is of Blake Cerveny and Brandon Schutt\, competitors in a 3.1-mile cross country race not long ago. Blake pushed himself too hard and his legs cramped up about three hundred yards from the finish. He went down three times and got up three times getting to within one hundred yards of the finish line when Brandon helped him up supporting Blake as they finished together. Though it does happen in the States\, when it does\, it makes national news. In Japan\, it is the normal way of behaving and I find that to be a nice culture to experience. It reminds me of the culture we are nourishing at PZI. \nThe quote from Xuansha came to mind there on the beach. What I witnessed struck me as the embodiment of compassion and and the spirit of practicing together\, with each other\, as well as with the teachers of the past. So much more alive and inspiring than encasing them\, or the practice itself\, in a kind of reverence that is often accompanied by rigidity. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate.
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Wednesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:No Meditation & Talk today.  \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nDavid is away today. He returns November 30th\, 2022.\nCome join us then! \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-wednesday-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T203000
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Making Tea with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMaking Tea\nYunyan was making tea.\nDaowu asked him\, “Who are you making tea for?” \nYunyan said\, “I am making it for another.” \nYunyan said\, “Why don’t you let them make it themselves?” \nYunyan said\, “Fortunately\, I’m here to do it.” \nThis koan paid me a visit as I was making coffee for my sister and brother-in-law one morning when they were visiting recently. I usually have a double expresso in the morning and I’m good\, but I knew my guests to be avid coffee drinkers who drank it by the liter. The prospect of being tied to the espresso machine pushing out double shots of espresso by the liter did not appeal to me. So\, I decided to resurrect my French press technique to make more coffee faster allowing me to enjoy breakfast with my companions in a more relaxed way. \nAs I was trying to remember how many scoops of beans and what setting I used to grind them\, the koan paid me a visit. Initially it struck me as being about my making coffee for my sister and her husband and how I felt fortunate that I was there to do that for them. But as I continued making the coffee\, measuring\, and grinding the beans and heating the water to just the right temperature\, I began to get a sense of something else about my experience with the koan and the coffee. \nThat something else crystallized for me after pouring the water into the press\, fitting the lid onto the top with the plunger up and then resting the inside of my wrist on the plunger. As I felt the weight of my relaxed arm slowly push the plunger down without effort\, I realized that I was doing it for me. I was the “another” for whom I was making “tea.” Just as I am “all the beings of the world” that I vow to wake. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate.
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/wednesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T190000
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Dahui & Doubt with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen faith is a hundred percent\, so too will be doubt. \nWhen doubt is a hundred percent\, so too will be awakening. \n—Dahui \nDoubt played no constructive role in the Indian Buddhist spiritual tradition; it was considered an obstacle that must be overcome. In China\, however\, this “debilitating”mental condition was transformed into the principal force driving one toward enlightenment. \nThat transformation took some time\, and even the 11th Century Chan teacher\, Yuanwu—an important figure in the transformation of the literary study of koans into a meditative system—still treats the sensation of doubt as something harmful to faith; something to be diligently avoided at all times. \nIt was Yuanwu’s disciple Dahui who turned doubt on its head\, re-imagining it as the principal force driving one toward awakening. He considered faith the essence of doubt\, and awakening the function of doubt. So\, to ask what this doubt is about\, we first have to ask\, What is this faith about? \nFor Dahui\, the faith is that we are awakened from the beginning\, innately. He used the tension between faith in our innate awakened nature\, and the reality of being human\, to drive the inquiry of koan practice. \nIt reminds me of tantra\, the transformation of energy: The energy of doubt is used to fuel inquiry and the cultivation of curiosity\, rather than letting that energy become an obstacle. \nCuriosity killed the cat\, but\, satisfaction brought it back. The satisfaction of letting go of—dying to—everything we know\, everything we think we are\, brings a satisfaction not dependent on anything. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Wednesday Meditation with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:No Meditation & Talk today.  \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nDavid is in PZI’s Fall Sesshin. He returns October 19th\, 2022.\nCome join us then! \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-wednesday-meditation-with-david-weinstein-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: Step by Step in the Blue Dragon's Cave - with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe storehouse of treasures opens of itself. You may take them and use them any way you wish. \n—Dogen \nA while back\, we had a retreat that was devoted to “The Cave of the Blue Dragon.” According to the story\, the Blue Dragon\, who is fierce\, is guarding a pearl of great value\, sometimes called the “wish-fulfilling gem\,” or “Mani Jewel.” That is the same mani as in Om Mani Padme Hum\, the national mantra of Tibet: “Praise the Jewel in the Lotus.”Imagine living in a country that has a national mantra. \nThe wish that the Mani Jewel can grant you is awakening. There is an air of danger and difficulty associated with entering the cave\, as there is with become awakened. Of course there’s the dragon\, but there is something else that is also daunting. The area between the entrance of the cave\, and where the Blue Dragon is located\, is filled with all of the strategies and unskillful mind-habits I have employed to protect my ways of creating suffering for myself. In order to get to the Mani Jewel\, I have to pick up each one of those things and set it aside\, so I can pass through. That’s what I do in meditation—I don’t get rid of anything\, I just put it to the side. \nBut those are the things I have been using to navigate my way through life\, and putting them aside is like flying blind\, and that’s scary. At the same time\, those things we pick up and put aside are actually treasures themselves—gates to experiencing the relief of putting them aside\, which is a treasure. The freedom that comes with not relying on anything\, step by step in the dark\, is a treasure. So the Cave of the Blue Dragon and the Storehouse of Treasures got all mixed up for me back then. \nNow\, with the theme of our upcoming retreat being “Door After Door Opening Inside\,” I find myself again thinking about the Storehouse of Treasures. How each of those things that we pick up and set aside is a door taking us deeper and deeper inside the Cave of the Blue Dragon. We have to set each treasure aside\, including the treasure of awakening\, and then even forget that we have set anything aside\, to be truly free. \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/wednesday-zen-step-by-step-in-the-blue-dragons-cave-with-david-weinstein/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:WEDNESDAY ZEN: What Body? What Mind? with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nNanquan said\, “All the buddhas do not know it\, but cats and oxen know it.”  \n—Book of Serenity #69 \nWe adopted two cats a week ago. For six weeks prior to that\, we had been taking care of our friends’ cat while they visited Japan. We had been doing this for our friends for a number of years\, but\, due to the pandemic\, not in these last few years. Our last cat died a year and half ago\, and having a furry friend in the house\, even if only for six weeks\, was a joy and the occasion of our starting to think about sharing our home with a cat again\, as well as the occasion of this koan paying me a visit. \nThe Chinese character translated in the koan as “cats\,” is variously translated as foxes\, badgers\, or raccoon-dogs. I don’t think it really matters so much which animal we’re talking about—what animals know is true of all animals. \nI suppose it could be called anthropomorphizing\, the way I assume animals think the same way I do. It’s hard not to think that way as I watch a jay dealing with a pile of peanuts. Picking up each peanut and dropping it\, and picking up another one and dropping it\, until all the peanuts have been picked up and dropped; none of them found satisfactory. \nI see myself doing that—picking and choosing\, not being satisfied. Then the jay starts all over again\, picking them all up and dropping them again\, until finally it takes the very first peanut that it picked up\, and flies off: I do that\, too. \nAs for the squirrels. . . I’ll save them for Wednesday evening. Not to mention my current cultivation of a relationship with a raven\, or my past working with a chimpanzee who communicated using American Sign Language. \nFor me\, this koan speaks to the dangers of knowing. If I’m caught up in the world of “Buddhas\,” I can’t know what reality is— I am looking at it through the lens of my ideas and concepts. The time I spend with my animal friends doesn’t feel like it’s distorted by anything. My experience settles into something as simple as just having a body and just being here. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\nJoin us for a koan\, meditation\, dharma talk\, & conversation.\nAll are welcome. Register to participate. \n—David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/wednesday-zen-with-david-weinstein/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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