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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Caoshan’s Well Sees a Donkey
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nCaoshan asked a student\, “Awakening is like the empty sky.\nIt responds to things the way the moon appears in water.\nHow do you explain this responsiveness?”\nThe student said\, “It’s like a donkey seeing a well.”\nCaoshan said\, “That’s most of it\, but not the whole thing.”                                                   \n“What’s it like for you?” asked the student\,                                                                          \n“It’s like a well seeing a donkey.” said Caoshan. \nThis koan about a donkey and a well brought the peach blossom koan to mind in which reality is met just as it is without any overlay in the experience of seeing peach blossoms. Nothing but peach blossoms. That sounds like a donkey seeing a well. There’s a me seeing the well\, but without overlay\, the way the empty sky receives whatever passes through it. The student’s response is good\, as far as it goes. \nBut the student’s response leaves out the other side of the coin. To say awakening is like a donkey seeing a well speaks to the way something is still being held onto… the donkey. Caoshan’s response of “A well sees a donkey” takes away what’s being held onto. When you experience\, “a donkey sees a well” there is nothing to know. When you experience\, “a well sees a donkey” there is no one who knows. No subject\, no object\, your body and mind are “like the vast sky”. The donkey is the donkey and the well is the well and simultaneously the donkey is the well and the well is the donkey and all the barriers come down. It reminds me of the seamlessness that we talked about in the last retreat. Life is not something to be observed from a corner. To be fully alive is to see by being seen and to be seen by seeing. \nThe fact is that even adding Caoshan’s other side of the coin ‘is not the whole thing’. We can never explain it\, like the taste of tea\, it is something we must experience for ourselves. \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-74/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan’s Boat or Land
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan asked the senior student Jiao\, “Did you come by boat or land?”\nJiao said\, “I came by boat.”\n“Where is the boat?”\n“It’s on the river.”\nAfter Jiao had left\, Fayan asked a student who was standing nearby\,\n“Tell me\, that student who was just here\, could he see into reality or not?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 51 \nThere are many cases in which teachers ask\, “Where have you come from?” Fayan’s question in this koan feels like that. Confronted with a question like that\, another question comes to mind\, “Is this a regular question or a Zen question?” Either way\, knowing the difference or not knowing the difference\, tells the teacher something. \nDongshan did not know the difference when he encountered Yunmen: \nYunmen asked him\, “Where were you most recently?”\nDongshan said\, “At Chadu.”\nYunmen said\, “Where were you during the summer?”\nDongshan said\, “At Baozi Monastery in Hunan.”\nYunmen said\, “When did you leave there?”\nDongshan said\, “August 25th.”\nYunmen said\, “I spare you sixty blows.” \nIn our koan we and the student are asked by Fayan whether we think Jiao knows the difference or not. In Hongzhi’s verse on the koan the first two lines are\, \nWater cannot wash water\, gold cannot be turned into gold. \nDid Hongzhi think Jiao knew the difference? \nDo you? \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-73/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for February 7th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-35/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Xuefeng’s What Is This? —Equanimity 50
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Xuefeng was living in a hermitage\, two monks came to pay their respects. When he saw them coming\, Xuefeng thrust open the gate of his hermitage and jumped out\, saying\, “What is this?”\nOne of the monks also said\, “What is this?”\nXuefeng hung his head and went back inside.  \nThe monks went on to Yantou. Yantou asked\, “Where have you come from?”\n“From Lingnan\,” one monk replied.\n“Did you visit Xuefeng?” Yantou asked.\n“Yes\, we went there.” \n“What did he tell you?”\nThe monk related what happened. Yantou asked\, “What did he say after ‘What is this’?”\n“He hung his head without a word and went back inside.”\nYantou said\, “What a pity!  In those days I did not tell him the last words. If I had told him\, nobody in the world could deal with him.” \nThis monk spent the summer season with Yantou\, and at the end\, he asked what Yantou meant by his observation about Xuefeng.\nYantou asked\, “Why didn’t you ask me sooner?”\n“It is not so easy to ask you about this.”\n“Xuefeng and I were born on the same branch\, but we do not die on it.\nIf you want to know the last words\, it is ‘only just this’.” \nThis feels like a continuation of the previous koan about Dongshan and the teaching he received from his teacher Yunyan\, “Just this\, this.” Xuefeng was born twenty years after Dongshan and forty years after Yunyan\, so it’s easy to assume that the teaching of ‘just this\, this’ was circulating around in the Chan world of the time. To experience ‘just this\, this’\, you must know what ’this’ is. Xuefeng is encouraging the monks\, himself and you and I to carry the inquiry further into ‘just this\, this’ by engaging the question ‘What is this?’ \nAt the end of Yunmen’s koan about sickness and medicine he asks the question\, “What are you?” It’s jarring to think of myself as a ‘what’\, somehow more so than asking ‘Who am I’. In a similar way\, asking “What is this?” feels like it is asking more of me than “Just this\, this” \n“What is this?” reading these words. Why is it so hard to ask? \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-72/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dongshan Holds a Memorial Service
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDongshan held a memorial service in front of Yunyan’s portrait and told the portrait story again.                                                                                                \nA student asked Dongshan\, “What did Yunnan mean by\, ‘Just this\, this!’?”\nDongshan said\, “At the time\, I almost misunderstood what my teacher really meant.”                                            The student said\, “I wonder whether Yunyan really knew what he was talking about.”\nDongshan said\, “If he didn’t know\, why would he have bothered to say anything? If he did know\, why was he willing to say it like that?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 49 \nI think it would be helpful to know what the “portrait story” is: \nDongshan had been studying with Yunyan for a while and was thinking about leaving.\nYunyan said\, “If you leave\, it will be difficult to see each other again.”\nDongshan said\, “It will be difficult not to see each other.”\nAs Dongshan was about to go\, he asked\, “After your death\, if people ask whether I have your portrait\, how should I respond?”\nAfter a long pause\, Yunyan answered\, “Just this\, this!”\nDongshan sighed.\nThen Yunyan said\, “Reverend Liang\, now that you have taken on this great matter\, you must consider it carefully.”\nBut Dongshan continued to have doubts. Later as he crossed a stream he saw his reflection in the water and awakened to Yunyan’s meaning. Then he wrote this verse: \nDon’t look elsewhere\, far from yourself\,\nNow I’m walking alone\, but I meet him everywhere\,\nNow he’s exactly me\, now I’m not him\,\nYou have to understand this way to join with what is. \nThe first koan in the Book of Equanimity came to join in the conversation with the portrait koan. That first koan goes like this: \nOne day\, the World-Honored One ascended to the rostrum. Manjusri struck the white gavel and said\, “Contemplate clearly the Dharma of the King of the Dharma. The Dharma of the King of the Dharma is just this!” The Buddha then stepped down from the rostrum. \nThis koan with Dongshan and Yunyan is an example of an 8th century Chan teacher echoing the teaching of the Buddha\, some thirteen centuries earlier. While I was at the Koko An Zendo in Honolulu\, Aitken Roshi sometimes invited a professor from the University of Hawaii philosophy department to come and talk. His name was David Kalapuhana\, and his field of interest was what he called “Original Buddhism\,” what others call Theravada. \nWhat interested Aitken Roshi was Kalapuhana’s feeling that Chan\, and later Zen\, were movements back towards the original teachings of the Buddha. A lot happened to Buddhism in those thirteen centuries between Shakyamuni and Dongshan and Yunyan\, yet Yunyan went back to the beginning to summarize his teachings for Dongshan. \nFeels to me like our way of practicing goes back beyond the Buddha into the time before Daoism or Confucianism or the pyramids in Egypt and South America. It’s as old as human consciousness\, a way of working with that burden and blessing. \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-71/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for January 24th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-34/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Vimalakirti's Silence
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen I write about the weekly koan\, first I look for an image. \nThis week as I searched for “images of silence\,” I couldn’t find one that quite hit the spot. Then I recalled my recent three weeks in Japan\, spent on the coast sixty miles southwest of Tokyo\, where from the veranda at our place it’s possible to look straight down and see waves crashing against the rocky coast. The sound of waves is a constant backdrop. \nThat constant presence can lead them to being silent\, a blank paper waiting for the brush and ink of whatever other sounds are present. Late at night\, in the dark\, listening to the regular rhythm of the waves\, like the breathing of the ocean\, the breathing of the earth\, the sound of the waves can become the only sound\, the only thing at all\, and there is also the silence. \nI think Vimalakirti’s silence was like that. The only thing there was at all. \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-70/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Mount Fuji Obscured by Clouds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nMount Fuji\,\nobscured by clouds\,\nthat’s interesting \n—Basho \nI took a photo of Mount Fuji and clouds during my most recent trip to Japan. My wife and I had gone to the Jukkoku Togei\, a 3000-foot mountain pass near the town of Atami\, in hopes of catching a view of that famous peak. When we arrived and saw a bunch of clouds between us and the mountain\, the poem by Basho came to mind. \nWhat could be interesting about making the effort to see Mount Fuji yet not seeing Mount Fuji because it’s obscured by clouds? \nIt is the same thing that’s interesting about making the effort to see ourselves clearly and finding ourselves obscured by the clouds of delusion. \nIn Japan\, seeing the New Year’s Day sunrise is considered to bring good luck in the new year. This is what it looked like this year: \n \nIt’s a much more interesting image because of the presence of clouds! Sitting in zazen\, obscured by the clouds of my delusions—that’s interesting. \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-69/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks\, schedule permitting \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for January 10th here.  \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-33/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 13th. We hope you join us then!\n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-on-break-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:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. We hope you join us then!\n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-on-break-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. We hope you join us then!\n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-on-break-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 with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 6th. We hope you join us then!\n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-on-break-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:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for December 13th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-with-david-weinstein/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yantou’s Arising and Disappearing
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLuoshan asked Yantou\, “What about when arising and disappearing don’t stop?”\nYantou yelled\, “Who arises and disappears?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 43 \nWhen Yantou and Xuefeng were snowbound in a cabin on Turtle Mountain\, Xuefeng spent every waking moment meditating while Yantou dozed. Xuefeng became upset with Yantou because he wasn’t meditating\, which led to a conversation about Xuefeng’s practice. In the end Yantou shouted at Xuefeng\, “Don’t you know that the family treasure does not come in through the front gate?” This was the spark that set off Yantou’s awakening. \nThat story paid a visit as I spent time with Yantou’s koan about arising and disappearing. I could feel a resonance between the two. It would be easy to answer Yantou’s question about who arises and disappears by saying\, “Me.” That would be the answer coming in through the front gate. Just as Xuefeng’s assumption that meditating every moment he was awake was the answer to awakening. \nThen another koan came along: “Who is hearing?” \nOn the first night of Fall Sesshin at Mount Madonna sat with that koan as the rain came thundering down. Though the roof did not leak many people were drenched. Again\, I can feel the resonance with Yantou’s question. It’s the same “who.” \nThen there was the question about when arising and disappearing don’t stop. Which brings up the question of when arising and disappearing do stop. What’s that like? Who experiences that? \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-63/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Nanyang's Water Jug
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked National Teacher Zhong of Nanyang\,\n“What is the original body of Vairochana Buddha like?”\nThe National Teacher said\, “Pass me that water jug.”\nThe student picked up the water jug and brought it to him.\nThe National Teacher said\, “Put it back where it was.”\nThe student asked again\, “But what is the original body of Vairochana Buddha like?”\n“That old Buddha is long gone\,” said the National teacher. \nAnother koan involving a water jug comes to mind. Case forty of the Gateless Barrier involves Baizhang\, who set up a test to see who the abbot of a new temple would be. Guishan and the Head Monk were the finalists. Baizhang placed a water jug on the ground and asked each of them to say what it was without calling it a water jug. The Head Monk said\, “You cannot call it a wooden shoe.” Guishan kickedthe jug over and left and he was given the abbotship. \nHere the National Teacher is like Guishan\, he demonstrates what the original body of Vairochana is like the way Guishan demonstrated what a water jug is. In a way that has nothing to do with the water jug\, the National Teacher could have asked the student to pass him a book\, as Yamada Roshi asked me. Gormlessly\, I turned towards the bookshelf behind me and reached for the book he asked for. Before my hand reached the book\, I bumped into Vairochana Buddha and broke out laughing\, as did Yamada. \nBumped into Vairochana lately? \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-64/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Luopu Near the End
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Luopu was near death\, he taught his gathering\,\n“Today I have something to ask you about:\nIf you think\, ‘This is it\,’ then you’re putting a head on top of your head.\nIf you think\, ‘This isn’t it\,’ then you’re looking for life by cutting off your head.”\nThe head student said\, “The green mountain is always moving its feet;\nyou don’t carry a lantern in broad daylight.”\nLuopu said\, “Is this a time to be making speeches?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 41 \n\nA senior student named Yancong stepped out and said to Luopu\,\n“We need to leave these two paths that you talk about\,\nplease don’t ask about them.”\nLuopu said\, “You’re not there yet. Try again.”\nYancong said\, “I can’t say it completely.”\nLuopu said\, “I don’t care whether what you say is complete or not.”\nYancong said\, “I’m not a student who can answer you.” \nWhen evening came\, Luopu called for Yancong and said\, “The reply you gave today was actually rooted in something. Try to embody what our late teacher said\, \nIn front of your eyes\, there are no things\, \nyour thoughts are in front of your eyes\,\nthere’s something else that’s not the things in front of your eyes\,\nit’s not something you can reach with ears or eyes. \nLuopu asked\, “Which phrase is the guest? Which phrase is the host? If you can sort that out\, I’ll pass on the bowl and robe to you.”\nYancong said\, “I can’t.”\nLuopu said\, “You can.”\nYancong said\, “Honestly\, I can’t.”\nLuopu roared and said\, “What a shame! What a shame!”\nA student asked\, “What do you mean?”\nLuopu\, said\, “You don’t row the boat of compassion over smooth waters\, but in a steep gorge there’s no point in releasing the wooden goose.” \n\nWhat struck me first about this koan was the comment from the head monk about the green mountains. And I found myself remembering another head monk. \nBaizhang was looking for an abbot for a new temple and it came down to the head monk and the cook\, Guishan. Baizhang put a water jug on the ground and asked each of them to say what it was without calling it a water jug. The head monk said\, “It cannot be called a wooden shoe.” Guishan kicked the water jug over and left\, and he was awarded the abbotship of the new temple. Head monks\, what we call Head of Practice in our retreats\, are often depicted as somewhat rigid and slow—makes you wonder how they got to be a head monk. The comment of the head monk in this case with Luopu reminds me of the ‘wooden shoe’ comment by the other head monk with Baizhang. In this case\, Yancong is in a similar position to Guishan and the water jug\, however he cannot “kick the jug over.” Head monks are often portrayed this way. Longtime practitioners who have risen to a position of authority but who still haven’t got it. \nLuopu was Linji’s attendant for twenty years\, a position even more highly regarded than head monk\, yet he never “got it” with Linji. So he knew very well what it was like to be close but not quite there. In addition to his desire for a dharma heir before he died\, there was the way he must have sympathized with Yancong\, who was close but not quite there. \nLuopu makes a great effort trying to help Yancong\, which brought to mind something that Guishan said about helping when asked by a student to explain something. He said\, “If I explained it to you\, later on you’d revile me. What I say is mine\, and has nothing to do with you.” Which brought along another old teacher\, Bukko\, who replied to the question\, “What is Zen?” by saying\, “Zen is the heart of the one who asks. You cannot get it from another’s words.” \nYou should probably stop reading this now\, but there was one last thing\, the death of the Buddha. We are told that his instruction on his death bed was: \nI was only able to point the way for you.\nBe a lamp unto yourself\, be a refuge to yourself.\nTake yourself to no external refuge. \nSounds more “Zen” than Luopu\, echoing Bukko’s “You can’t get it from someone else’s words.” \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-65/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for November 22nd here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-31/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yunmen’s Cleverer Thief – Book of Serenity Case 40
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen asked Jianfeng\, “May I have your answer?”\nJianfeng said\, “Have you even arrived here yet?\nYunmen said\, “In that case I’m late.”\n“Is that so. Is that so?” said Jianfeng.\nYunmen said\, “You are a cleverer thief than I am.” \nSeveral people have told me that their first reaction to this koan was\, “Huh?” Though koans often don’t make sense\, this one seems to make even less sense than the usual not making sense. \nThe conversation between Yunmen and Jianfeng appears to be modeled after a conversation that took place between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist teacher Nagasena around 150 BC almost 300 years after the Buddha died\, and a thousand years before Yunmen was born – an encounter between Hellenistic and Buddhist thinking. Reminds me of touring the Buddhist collection in a museum in Lahore\, Pakistan. There were many life-size statues of bodhisattvas wearing Greek robes. \nThe conversation between Milinda and Nagasena is one of many included in the text The Questions of King Milinda\, and it goes like this: \nThe king said\, “I’m going to pose a question. Can you answer?”\nNagasena said\, “Please ask your question.”\nThe king said\, “I’ve already asked.”\nNagasena responded\, “I’ve already answered.”\nThen the king said\, “What did you answer?”\nNagasena countered\, “What did you ask?”\nThe king said\, “I’ve asked nothing.”\nNagasena replied\, “I’ve answered nothing.” \nAs you can see this ‘not making sense’ has been going on for a long time\, though the conversation between Yunmen and Jianfeng seems to make less sense than the conversation between Nagasena and King Milinda. Progress? \nHave you arrived here yet? \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-66/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Silence in the Midst of Roaring Life
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSomeone asked\, “What is ‘being silent while speaking’?”\nYunmen said\, “A clear opportunity just slipped through your fingers!” \nWhen I found this exchange about being silent while speaking\, I was reminded of another exchange in which Baizhang asked “How would you say something without moving your lips?” Baizhang was Huangbo’s teacher\, Huangbo was Muzhou’s teacher and Muzhou was Yunmen’s teacher. \nFeeling the flow of this phrase about being silent while speaking as it moved through one hundred years and three generations of Zen teachers increased my sense of intimacy with being silent while speaking. \nI was reminded of trekking in the Himalayas while reciting a mantra\, getting lost in the infinite stone steps and the equally infinite number of mantras recited while being silent. When I stopped to rest\, having forgotten where I was\, seeing the towering peaks all around me\, I saw without using my eyes\, I heard without using my ears\, I smelled without using my nose. I was transported without using my body. I knew the mountains without using my mind\, and my tongue fell out completely. \nThere was another experience that came to mind\, also in the Himalayas. While on a pilgrimage to a cave sacred to the Hindu god Shiva\, along the way I met and spent some time with a devotee of Shiva. We sat on a little island at a point where two rivers joined each other and the sound of those rivers was so loud I could not hear my own voice. \nTo speak but not hear your own voice is an unusual experience\, as is finding silence in the roar of two rivers\, or in the midst of a roaring 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-67/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for November 8th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-32/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Linji’s True Person
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLinji taught the gathering\, “There is a true person of no rank who is always coming\nand going through the portals of your face. Those of you with beginner’s mind who\nhave still not verified this\, look\, look.”\nA student asked\, “What is the true person of no rank like?”\nLinji came down from the teacher’s seat and grabbed him.\nThe student hesitated.\nLinji released him and said\, “What a dried-up piece of shit this true person of no rank is.” \nThe first thing to come along as I started spending time with this koan was Linji’s enlightenment story\, Case 86 in Equanimity\, which goes like this: \nThe Head Monk asked Linji\, “How long have you been practicing here?” \nLinji said\, “Three years.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Have you gone for an interview with the master or not?” \nLinji said\, “I haven’t done so. I don’t know what to ask him.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Why not ask him\, ‘What is the essential meaning of Buddhism?’” \nSo Linji went to see Huangbo\, but before he could finish his question Huangbo struck him. \nLinji went out\, and the Head Monk asked him\, “What happened when you asked him?” \nLinji said\, “Before I could get the words out he hit me. I don’t understand.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “Go ask him again.” \nSo Linji asked Huangbo again\, and Huangbo once again hit him. Linji asked a third time\, and Huangbo hit him again. \nLinji revealed this to the Head Monk\, saying\, “Before you urged me to ask about the Dharma\, but all I got was a beating. Because of evil karmic hindrances I’m not able to comprehend the essential mystery. So\, today I’m going to leave here.” \nThe Head Monk said\, “If you’re going to leave\, you must say goodbye to the master.” \nThe next day when Linji came to say goodbye to Huangbo\, Huangbo said\, “You don’t need to go somewhere else. Just go over to the Gao’an Monastery and practice with Dayu. He’ll explain it to you.” \nWhen Linji reached Dayu\, Dayu said\, “Where have you come from?” \nLinji said\, “From Huangbo.” \nDayu said\, “What did Huangbo say?” \nLinji said\, “Three times I asked him about the essential doctrine and three times I got hit. I don’t know if I made some error or not.” \nDayu said\, “Huangbo has old grandmotherly affection and endures all this difficulty for your sake—and here you are asking whether you’ve made some error or not!” \nUpon hearing these words Linji was awakened. \nIt is easy to assume that Linji’s reference to the “true person of no rank” pertains to the tendency of individuals to elevate themselves above others\, holding an exaggerated view of their own understanding. But\, given Linji’s enlightenment story\, I’m inclined to believe that he was also talking about those who thought less of themselves\, as he did with Huangbo and as the monk in the koan did with Linji. \nMaybe as you do too? \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-54/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for October 25th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-22/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Guishan’s No Foundation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Suppose that out of the blue\, someone asks you\,\n‘All sentient beings only have disorderly consciousness\, boundless and with no foundation to rely on.’\nHow would you conduct an inquiry into this?”\nYangshan said\, “If a student like that came\, I’d call\,\n‘Hey so and so!’ When the student turns her head\, then I’d say\, ‘What is it?’\nThen I’d wait while she thinks about it.\nThen I’d say\, ‘Not only is disorderly consciousness boundless but also there is no foundation to rely on.’”\nGuishan said\, “Good!” \n—Book of Serenity Case 37 \nAs I have been spending time with this koan\, I’ve been recalling how there is nothing like travel to appreciate disorderly consciousness being boundless with no foundation to rely on. Planning for a trip is an exercise in the attempt to make things orderly\, which is an exercise in disorderly consciousness itself. Plane reservations\, hotel reservations\, reservations for tours\, guidebooks. How about when you are told that the seats printed on your boarding passes\, which you chose so carefully months in advance\, are not the seats that you are going to be sitting in…you can imagine the kind of disorderly consciousness that might arise and not only that\, but the two seats you do have are not together. \nOr how about when when the plane taking you to Europe on a 12–hour non–stop flight\, has only one working toilet for the entire plane…you can imagine the kind disorderly consciousness that \nmight arise\, not to mention feeling there is no foundation to rely on\, you cannot even rely on a working toilet. Or when Google maps correctly leads you to a shop that it listed as open\, but it is closed…even more that can’t be relied on. \nI suppose it’s no different than the kinds of situations I run into in my everyday life. But\, traveling is a kind of adventure. Sure\, I make plans and get reservations when I’m not traveling\, but when in “traveling mode” there is a higher likelihood of me appreciating that part of the adventure is things not going the way they are “supposed” to go and being open to see where they do go. \nRemembering that I am always “traveling\,” even when I’m home\, might be what Basho was thinking about when he wrote: \n“Every day is a journey\, and the journey itself is home.” \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-55/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:ON BREAK for Great Fall Sesshin. Join us again on October 21st! \n\nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe.  \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-56/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Chicken in a Phoenix Nest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLuopu paid a formal visit to Jiashan. He didn’t bow but stood right in front of him.\nJiashan said\, “A chicken roosting in a phoenix nest—it’s not the same species. Go away.”\nLuopu said\, “I have come from far away because of your reputation. Please welcome me this once.”\nJiashan said\, “There is no you in front of me\, and there is no me here.”\nLuopu then roared.\nJiashan said\, “Stop\, stop! Now don’t be so careless. Clouds and the moon are the same. Valleys and mountains are different. You can cut out the tongues of everyone on earth\, but how can you teach a tongueless person to speak?”\nLuopu was speechless.\nThen Jiashan hit him\, and Luopu bowed deeply. \n—Luopu’s Bow\, Book of Serenity Case 35 \nAs with Sansheng’s golden scales\, a couple of koans back\, in this koan we have another dharma heir of Linji traveling around deepening their practice after receiving transmission. It also reminds me of Magu presenting himself to two teachers after his awakening experience\, and the way Magu ignored standard protocol and just stood in front of the teachers. \nBut there is a prequel to this koan about Luopu and Jiashan. After receiving transmission from Linji\, we are told: \n“Luopu traveled for a year\, and then came to Mt. Jia\, where he built a hut and stayed. He remained there for a year without visiting Jiashan’s monastery on the same mountain. Jiashan wrote a letter and instructed a monk to take it to Luopu. Luopu received the letter\, then went back and sat down without reading it. He then extended his hand to the monk as if to say\, “Do you have something else?” When the monk didn’t answer\, Luopu hit him and said\, “Go back and tell your teacher about this.” The monk reported to Jiashan about what had happened. Jiashan said\, “If he opens the letter\, then he’ll come here within three days. If he doesn’t open it\, then no one can save him.”          \nSo this koan makes even less sense considering Jiashan had invited Luopu to come in the first place. Is that any way to treat a guest that you have invited\, accusing them of being a chicken imitating a phoenix? Is that any way for a guest to treat their host\, not bowing as would be proper and polite? Maybe Luopu did not open the letter and came anyway. Would he have saved himself that way? \nI find this koan and Sansheng’s golden fish and even Magu circling the teacher three times\, to be reminders that there is always more. There is no end\, no goal\, no final resting place; there is just the ongoing inquiry into “What is this?” \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-57/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for October 4th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-28/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: After Enlightenment\, the Laundry
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFengxue said\, “If you raise a speck of dust\, the world flourishes. If you don’t raise a speck of dust\, the world perishes.”\n \n—Fengxue’s Speck of Dust\, Book of Serenity Case 34 \nThis is the third koan in a row that has struck me as being about stepping off the hundred-foot pole. I’m not sure if Wansong kept the same order of koans as in the original collection by Hongzhi\, or not. It seems like one or the other of them put these three together to make a point about the necessity of coming forth into the world and not staying in the vastness. \n“Abiding nowhere the mind comes forth\,” says the Diamond Sutra. It comes forth in the world that the Hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak walked into with her staff across her shoulders. The world in which\, as Yangshan said\, “it is enough for the stage of being human.” The world in which Xuefeng said that he was old\, as we all get old\, and that he was busy\, as we are all busy. \nIt reminds me of when Shitou checked in on his student Layman Pang about his practice and Pang’s response was\, “How miraculous and wondrous! Chopping wood and carrying water.” Going shopping\, cooking dinner. There is a Zen proverb that goes\, “After enlightenment\, the laundry.” \nThat’s all for now\, I’ve got to go to feed the cats. \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-58/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Gotten Defensive Lately?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nSansheng asked Xuefeng\, “I’m the Golden Scales who has passed through the net\, but I still haven’t figured out what to eat.”\nXuefeng said\, “I’ll wait for you to come out of the net and then I’ll tell you.”\n“A spiritual friend to 1500 people but you’re still not inside the world of the koans.”\n“Well\, I’m old\, and as head of the temple I have a lot on my mind.” \n—Sansheng’s Golden Scales\, Book of Serenity Case 33 \nThe first thing coming along as I hung out with this koan was Book of Serenity Case 16 with Magu\, Changqing\, and Nanquan. In that koan\, as in this one\, Magu is presenting himself to a teacher for confirmation of his awakening. Magu gets defensive when Nanquan says “Wrong!” to his presentation. He was still trapped in the net. Sansheng also seems to get defensive when Xuefeng implies that he is still in the net. \nIt’s interesting that the commentaries about this koan with Sansheng consider Sansheng and Xuefeng to be equals and that their conversation was a draw: no one lost\, no one won. Sansheng was known to be the sole dharma heir of Linji\, and perhaps he was given the benefit of the doubt that was not given to Magu. \nFor me\, what is alive in the koan is the issue of becoming defensive or not. \nRecently I was contacted by another teacher whose former student is currently working with me. They were concerned about a recent conversation they had had with this student and wanted to check in with me about it. After listening to their concerns\, I found that my impression of the student was different than theirs and I noticed a lack of defensiveness in my response\, that I appreciated. I don’t like conflict and it was interesting to notice that though our opinions differed\, it didn’t feel like a conflict\, and that was nice. \nMaybe that’s what the commentators on this koan were picking up on in the conversation between Xuefeng and Sansheng. \nGotten defensive lately? Or not? \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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-59/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for September 20th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-29/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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