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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/
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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/
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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/
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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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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/
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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/
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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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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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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 
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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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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 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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Throw On Some Clothes!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYangshan asked a student\, “Where were you born?”\nThe student said\, “I’m from Yu province.”\n“Do you think about that place?”\n“I’m always thinking about it.”\n\n“That which is able to think is mind. What is thought about is the environment. Within the environment are mountains\, rivers and the great earth\, towers\, terraces\, pavilions\, people\, animals and all kinds of other things. But turn your thought inward to the mind that thinks. Are there lots of things there?”\n\n“When I reach that place inside\, I don’t see anything there.”\n“That’s right when you are at the stage of faith\, but it’s not yet enough for the stage of being human.”\n“Do you have anything else to point out or not?”\n\n“Whether I have something else or not isn’t the issue. When you look inside now\, you see only an undifferentiated darkness. But move around and throw on some clothes and notice yourself doing that.”  \n—Book of Serenity Case 32 \nYangshan saying\, “…but it’s not yet enough for the stage of being human\,” immediately brought in Shishuang’s “Take a step from a 100-foot pole\,” as well as the Hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak’s “It has no power for the way.” \nI appreciate Yangshan’s example of moving around and throwing on some clothes and noticing yourself doing that. Shishuang doesn’t tell us how to take a step off the 100-foot pole; there are no helpful hints. The hermit of Lotus Blossom Peak doesn’t tell us anything about the journey into the 10\,000 peaks. \nYangshan\, together with his teacher Guishan\, founded the Guiyang School: the first of the five schools of Chan. Besides being noted for using esoteric symbols\, his school is also noted for having been a gentler\, kinder style of practicing Chan—not so much yelling or hitting. Yangshan tells us what to do. Nanquan said that ordinary mind is the way; Yangshan is showing us ordinary mind. \nWhat do you notice as you put on your clothes and move around? \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-60/
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: The Intersectionality of Pillars
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen said\, “An old Buddha and a pillar intersect with each other.\nWhat number of activity is this?\nHe spoke in their place\,”Clouds rise on South Mountain.\nRain falls on North Mountain.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 31 \nThe first thing to appear alongside this koan was from our PZI Miscellaneous Collection: \nHide in a pillar. \nThen I wondered about the difference between “hide” and “intersect.” There are various translations of the character for “intersect\,” like: \nmerge\nhas intercourse with\nembrace\nmingle\ncross\nhave relations with\ndoes it with\n\nI noticed the translation “merge” felt close to “hide” and different from the others. The other translations didn’t feel as complete as “merge” and “hide.” I looked up the character and found that it was used to describe the intersection of two roads\, and I noticed how that intersection felt close to “hide.” \nThe translation “embrace” reminded me of the koan about Qian and her spirit being separated and how\, at the end of the story\, the two Qians embrace and become one\, and how that feels close to “hide.” \nYunmen’s response about clouds and rain and the association to sexual union felt like that embrace of the two Qians. That moment when there is only one\, and then not even one. \nWhat number of activity is 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-61/
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 6th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-30/
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: Will It Be Destroyed or Not?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Dasui\,\n“In the kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nDasui said\, “It will be destroyed.”\n“It will follow along with everything else?”\nDasui said\, “It will follow along with everything else.” \nThen the student asked Longji\,\n“In the kalpa fire when the universe is completely destroyed\, I’m still wondering\, is there something that won’t be destroyed?”\nLongji\, replied\, “It won’t be destroyed.”\n“Why not?”\n“Because it’s the same as the universe.” \n–Book of Serenity Case 30 \nAs I spend time with this koan\, I find myself remembering when I began my meditation practice with the Tibetans. How they emphasized the certainty of our death and the uncertainty of when it would happen. There was a meditation that involved visualizing yourself on a train hurtling down the rails towards a bridge that had been washed out. We were told that if we didn’t get scared we weren’t doing it right. \nSounds like Dasui’s “It will be destroyed.” \nWe were also encouraged to meditate as we fell asleep\, as we were told the process of falling asleep is the same as that of dying\, and becoming familiar with it would help us in the transition. \nThat sounds like Longji’s “It won’t be destroyed.” \nAs I understood it\, for the Tibetans\, the best thing we could hope for would be a human rebirth in our next life\, during which we might wake up to the reality of the world. \nWhen the Buddha was asked how long the length of a human life is\, his response was\, “One thought-moment.” (And that there are sixty-four thought-moments in the snap of a finger.) \nMoment after moment we are presented with the opportunity to become familiar with our death: the death of who we think we are\, the death of what we think is right or wrong\, the death of the way we think things are. Being consumed by the kalpa fire moment after moment opens the possibility of appreciating Longji’s “It is not destroyed.” \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-62/
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:20250826T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fengxue's Iron Ox
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFengxue taught\, “When the ancestors make an impression on your mind\, it’s like the working of the Iron Ox. When the impression goes away\, it remains working. If the impression stays\, its working is ruined. Making an impression and not making an impression can both be right only if the impression doesn’t go away and doesn’t stay.” \nAccording to a footnote I have for this koan\, the “Iron Ox” referred to was placed in China’s Yellow River to regulate its flow and minimize damage from flooding. I must admit I’ve never quite understood how that worked\, so when I ran into an alternate possibility of imagining this koan\, I was interested. \nAs it turns out\, there really was an iron ox—originally there were eight of them\, four on each side of the river. They were part of the earliest and longest floating bridge on the Yellow River\, estimated to have been built around 724 A.D. Each ox weighed 70 tons\, was 7 feet high\, 9 feet long\, and 6 feet wide. Each ox had six iron pillars attached at the bottom\, which were 30 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. The pillars were attached at a 45-degree angle\, opening to the front of the ox in such a way so that when the pillars were buried into the ground\, they would prevent the ox from moving due to the pull of the cables supporting the bridge that were wrapped around the ox. After 500 years\, the bridge was destroyed during a war\, but the ox remained on the riverbanks. \nThe I Ching says\, ”The ox is like kun—kun is the earth\, and the earth is better than water.” So\, supported by what the I Ching says about the nature of the ox\, the iron ox on the riverbanks were considered a deterrent to flooding of the Yellow River. \nThough they were not buried at the bottom of the river\, the action of the Iron Ox supporting the bridge was the same. They didn’t move; that was their action: not moving. \nFengxue’s description of the action of the Iron Ox sounds like advice on how to hang out with a koan. When a koan makes an impression on your mind\, don’t move\, don’t do anything\, just let it be. Reminds me of another koan that asks\, “How is it that a fully awakened person cannot lift up their leg\, or say something without moving their lips or tongue?” \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: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 August 23rd here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-27/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Filling a Sieve with Water
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA teacher said\, “It’s like filling a sieve with water.”\nThe student thought about this for some time but didn’t understand.\nThe teacher got a sieve and they went to the sea.\nThe student poured water into the sieve and it poured out again.\n“How do you do it?” she asked.\nThe teacher threw the sieve out into the ocean\, where it floated for a moment and then sank. \nFilling a sieve with water sounds like a task you might encounter in a fairytale. Something along the lines of picking out a wagonload of poppy seeds from black flour dust or telling the king how many hairs he has on his head. \nIn the case of the person assigning such a task in fairy tales and myths\, they do not expect anyone to succeed\, and even hope for failure. \nIn the case of the koan\, inviting someone to fill a sieve with water is suggested knowing that the person can accomplish the task and may even have already accomplished it\, though they don’t know it themselves. \nThat task is our life and we are always living it\, whether we notice it or not. Our life may feel like a sieve full of holes\, as we feel unable to hold onto anything. But not being able to hold onto anything is just the way life is\, the way a sieve cannot hold onto water. \nWe can spend a lot of time trying to plug up the holes of our life/sieve and may even succeed in being able to make it hold water. But then it is no longer a sieve\, and it is no longer life. To fill a sieve with water is to appreciate that like the cracks that let the light in\, holes in a sieve\, in our life\, let the light and life in. \nAnd what about that moment when the sieve floated before it sank? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-52/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Just Let It Be
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDaoxin asked Sengcan\, “Please teach me the way of freedom.”\nSengcan asked\, “Who is binding you?”\nDaoxin said\, No one is binding me.”\nSengcan said\, “Then why should you search for freedom?”\nHearing this\, Daoxin had great realization. \nSengcan was the third patriarch of Chan after Bodhidharma\, the first patriarch\, and his student Huike\, the second. Many know the story of Huike cutting off his arm to show his sincerity to Bodhidharma. \nTrust in Mind (the Xinxin Ming) is a well-known composition that begins\, “The great way is not difficult if you just avoid picking and choosing…” and is attributed to Sengcan. \nDaoxin studied with Sengcan for nine years after this exchange about binding. Sengcan acknowledged Daoxin as his successor\, and therefore the fourth patriarch. But\, ask even a longtime Zen practitioner something about the fourth patriarch and more than likely you will get a blank stare in response. \nDaoxin’s realization that he was the one doing the binding—which was keeping him from being free—can be heard echoed in his response to a question about how to become clear. He said: \nDon’t be mindful of the Buddha\,\nDon’t control the mind\,\nDon’t examine the mind\,\nDon’t speculate about the mind\,\nDon’t deliberate\,\nDon’t practice analysis\,\nDon’t become distracted;\nJust let it be.\nDon’t try to get rid of it\,\nDon’t try to make it stay. \nThis very body and mind is always the site of awakening in every step you take. Whatever you do\, wherever you go\, it is all awakening. \n“Just let it be\,” just let your binding be—knowing what you are doing is enough. Anything we “do about it” is just more binding. I can hear this echoed in something Yuanwu said 400 years later: \nLife\, death\, difficulty\, heartache—just let them be and you enter the realm of awakening without leaving the realm of the demon. \nOne of my favorite sakes is called “Demon Slayer\,” but slaying demons is not what this practice is about. Daoxin knew that and taught specific techniques to help. \nSlayed any demons 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 
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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 August 9th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-26/
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:20250805T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Huguo’s Three Shames
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nHuguo’s Three Shames \nA monk asked Huguo\, “How about when a crane perches on a withered pine tree?”\nHuguo said\, “It is a shame when seen from the ground.”\n“What about when every drop of water is frozen?”\n“It’s a shame after the sun has risen.”\n“At the time of the persecution of Buddhism\, where were the Dharma Guardian Dieties?”\n“On both sides of the great gate\, they should be ashamed.” \nBook of Serenity Case 28 \n\nThe word “shame” can be used in several ways\, functioning as both a noun and a verb. \nAs a noun: \nA painful feeling of guilt or embarrassment: She felt a deep sense of shame after lying to her friends. \nSomething regrettable or disappointing: It’s a shame that the concert was canceled. \nAs a verb: \nTo force someone to do something through a sense of shame: The parents shamed the child into apologizing. \nTo surpass or outdo someone or something: Her artistic talent put the other students to shame. \nWhich way did “shame” appear to you in the koan? \nFor me it was the “shame” of not taking a step from the hundred foot pole. \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
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Fayan's Blinds
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nFayan took the high seat before the midday meal to preach to his assembly.\nRaising his hand he pointed to the bamboo blinds. \nTwo monks went and rolled them up in the same manner.\nFayan said\, “One gains; one loses.” \nWumen’s comment: \nTell me\, which one gained? Which one lost? If you have the eye regarding this\, you will see where Fayan failed. But I must warn you strictly against arguing gain and loss. \nWin\, lose\, right\, wrong\, gain\, loss\, it’s all in the same territory.\nWhat is Fayan doing in that territory\, saying one gains and one loses? Doesn’t he know better? Is that how Fayan failed?\nAssuming he does know better\, what is he talking about then? What if he’s not talking about the two monks? Who else could he be talking about? \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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CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T080000
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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 July 26th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is the Source of White?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYangshan pointed to the statue of a snow lion and asked\,\n“Is there anyone who can go beyond this whiteness?”                                                                                            Yunmen said\, “I’d have immediately knocked it over for him.”\nXuedou said\, “He only explains knocking it over\, he doesn’t explain helping it up.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 26 \nWe met Yangshan in Book of Serenity Case 15\, when he planted his hoe in the ground in response to Guishan’s question about how many people were working in the field. In that koan Yangshan put his hoe over his shoulder and went off to South Mountain to help with the harvest. \nThis reminds me of the comments on the Snow Lion koan from Yunmen and Xuedou. Planting his hoe\, knocking it over\, putting her hoe over her shoulder and going to South Mountain\, helping it up. \nThen there is white—the color of purity\, that single sheet of white silk. Some people try to scrub their mind clean of all thoughts\, believing that is the Way\, eliminating all impurities. But white is not the absence of color\, it is the presence of all colors\, just as the awakened mind is not the absence of thought. \nAnother koan involving Yangshan and his teacher Guishan came to join in the conversation. In that koan Guishan presents Yangshan with the case of someone saying\, “There is only disorderly karmic consciousness and nothing whatsoever to rely on.” We cannot rely on the color white; we must go beyond it. \nTaking a step off a 100-foot pole\, the Hermit of Lotus blossom peak saying\, “It has no power for the Way\,” Zhaozhou’s “I do not abide in clarity\,” and “What is the source of ‘No’?”—these also came along to join in the conversation. \nWhat is the source of white? \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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250715T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Stop the World!
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day\, Yanguan called to his attendant\, “Bring me the rhinoceros fan.”\nThe attendant said\, “It’s broken.”\nYanguan said\, “If the fan is broken\, bring me the rhinoceros.”\nThe attendant did not answer.\nZifu drew a circle and wrote “rhinoceros” inside it. \nBook of Serenity Case 25\n\nYanguan’s request to have the rhinoceros brought to him stopped the world of his attendant. It’s sort of like being on a playground merry-go-round which suddenly stops\, but the world keeps spinning. I’m reminded of last week’s koan about the turtle-nosed snake and how being bitten by it stops the world. \nImagine someone asking you what your favorite color is and after you tell them\, they say\, “No\, it’s not.” That might stop you or might stop the world—either way. Anything might do it\, be the trigger\, the catalyst; like the sound of a pebble hitting bamboo\, or being told a dog does not have Buddha nature\, or that last step that you forgot was there.  \nOne of my personal favorites is reaching for something that’s not there. It should be there\, it is always there\, I’m sure I put it there\, and in the moment before any thought\, before I start assigning blame\, it’s quiet. \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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