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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 May 10th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-20/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Yangshan Plants His Hoe
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Where have you come from?”\nYangshan said\, “I’ve come from the fields.”\n“How many people are in the fields?”\nYangshan planted his hoe in the ground and stood with his hands clasped.\nGuishan said\, “Lots of people are cutting water mallows on South Mountain.”\nYangshan picked up his hoe and left. \n—Book of Serenity Case 15 \n“Where have you come from?” is a frequently asked question in koans. Sometimes it seems like the teacher just wants to know where the person came from and sometimes the teacher seems to want to know something deeper than that. How do you tell the difference? In this conversation between Guishan and Yangshan neither of them seems to have any difficulty in knowing which is which. As a matter of fact\, they were so much on the same page that they co founded the first of the five houses of Chan of the Tang Dynasty. \nBeing able to flow back-and-forth seamlessly between form and emptiness is the integration of practice into our lives. As is Yangshan’s picking up his hoe and going to South Mountain. \nWhat is your hoe? What is your South Mountain? \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-38/
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: Attendant Huo Offers Tea
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDeshan’s attendant\, Shoukuo\, asked\, “All the sages from the beginning of time—where have they gone?\nDeshan replied\, “What? What?”\nShoukuo said\, “I gave an order for a racehorse\, but a lame tortoise stuck its head out.”\nDeshan let it rest.\nThe next day\, when Deshan came out of his bath\, Huo brought him tea.\nDeshan patted him once on the back.\nShoukuo said\, “This old guy has begun to get a glimpse of the territory.”\nAgain Deshan was silent. \n—Book of Serenity Case 14 \nThis is the last story in a collection of koans about Deshan\, and we are told that he is old and near death. This time he is in a very different place than when we first met him as a scholar of the Diamond Sutra\, pulling a cart filled with his commentaries behind him. \nFull of pride about his knowledge\, he heads south to straighten out the Chan practitioners who don’t seem to appreciate the sutras the way he does. In the first of these koans\, he is put in his place by the woman who sells him tea and cakes\, which knocks some of the wind out of his sails. Then he is plunged into darkness by the Zen teacher to whom this “tea lady” has referred him. He appreciates the error of his ways\, burns all of his commentaries\, and sets out to meet other Chan teachers. Though\, having had an awakening experience\, he is still filled with pride and hubris. \nIn one of his next encounters\, Deshan enters a meditation hall carrying his pilgrim’s bundle\, an improvement over pulling a cart full of his commentaries. But he is still carrying something that needs to be put down. He ignores the teacher sitting in the hall and walks from one side to the other saying\, “There is nothing\, no one\,” and then walks out. Upon reaching the temple gate\, he reconsiders his actions and goes back into the hall\, bows to the teacher\, then yells and walks out again. \nYou might wonder how he could behave that way after having an awakening experience. There is a story about Sigmund Freud that comes to mind where he was asked how someone who had completed analysis could still be a jerk. Freud’s response was “They are a well-analyzed jerk.” In the case of Deshan I suppose we could say he was an enlightened jerk. In that way\, his is a cautionary tale about getting stuck in the emptiness of an awakening experience. \nIn another story about Deshan\, which happens later in his life\, he is again carrying something: this time\, his bowls. He arrives too early for the temple meal and is chided by the cook. Saying nothing\, he turns around and returns to his room. In that story\, as in the current story\, he is older and has integrated his awakening more\, and in both stories he responds by saying nothing. \nIn that story we are told that he did not know “the last word of Zen\,” but at the end of the story we learn that his talk had been different than any talk he had ever given. \nIn this way the stories of Deshan show us how an awakening experience matures\, how a teacher matures\, and continues to mature\, throughout the course of their life of having a meditation practice. It is not a one-and-done process\, but rather a lifetime practice that never stops deepening. \nAs is said about Oakland\, it can be said about awakening: there is no there\, there. It is always here\, here. \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-37/
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 April 26th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-18/
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:20250422T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Linji’s Blind Donkey – Equanimity #13
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nWhen Linji was about to die\, he gave this direction to Sansheng: “After my death\, don’t extinguish the eye treasure of my true teaching.”\nSansheng said\, “Who would dare to destroy the treasury of your true dharma eye?”\n“If someone asks you\, how will you answer?”\nSansheng shouted.\nLinji said\, “Who’d have thought that the treasury of my true teaching would be extinguished by this blind donkey?” \nIt might be jet lag\, but as I’ve been spending some time with this koan the first thing that came was the image that I used for another koan involving a donkey. In that koan\, two friends are discussing their practice and one says his practice is like when a donkey sees a well. The other friend says that his practice is like when a well sees the donkey. I’m thinking that when the well sees the donkey\, the donkey is blind. Then another koan came along that’s in our miscellaneous collection\, which invites us to extinguish the fire across the river. Then another koan in the miscellaneous collection came along which invites us to extinguish a star. And with those two koans paying a visit\, extinguishing Linji’s teaching revealed other facets. \nThen there’s that question that Linji asked Sansheng and how he would respond to it if asked by someone. But what is that question? That’s a good question. \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-36/
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:20250415T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dizang Saves the World
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDizang asked Master Xiushan\, “Where do you come from?”\nXiushan replied\, “I come from the South.”\n“What’s Buddhism like in the South these days?”\n“We take it seriously and talk about it a lot.”\n“That’s not as good as planting this field and pounding rice to make food.”\n“What does that have to do with saving the world?\nDizang said “What are you calling the world?” \nDizang is the teacher who told Fayan that not knowing is most intimate. I hear Dizang talking about the intimacy of not knowing what the world is\, and also not knowing what saving the world is. \nAs I write this I am sitting in Hakone\, Japan\, at a hot spring hotel. I am here with my Japanese wife\, and my sister and brother-in-law who have never been to Japan. I have accompanied people visiting Japan for the first time and found that I saw things through their fresh eyes\, things that I’d stopped seeing\, having lived in Japan for seven years and visited annually over the last thirty-five. \nMy wife Sarasa also looked forward to introducing her country and customs to our guests. In a sense\, “saving” them during their first and perhaps only visit to Japan. \nOne thing she looked most forward to was introducing them to the pleasures of soaking in hot spring water. However\, my brother-in-law had lost his left leg below the knee in a work accident. He has a prosthetic that can’t get wet and he didn’t have crutches. \nI’ve never seen a person whose leg is missing have a bath at a hot spring. It’s interesting\, that in Japan\, where they take much better care of their elders and disabled than we do\, there are no accommodations. \nAs for my sister\, she had no interest in getting naked with a bunch of strangers\, perhaps not even with my wife. They also had little interest in Japanese history\, so visiting temples and shrines and other “must do\, must see” things we had wanted them to experience were not high on their list of things to see and do\, which was a little hard at first. \nBut I noticed that what seemed to interest them more were more mundane things. \nMy brother-in-law\, who works in construction\, was fascinated with the construction techniques he was seeing here. He was impressed by the level of cleanliness maintained even in areas where heavy machinery was operating\, not to mention the overall lack of litter. It gives him an appreciation for the attention to detail in Japanese culture that others might find in Tea Ceremony or another traditional art. \nAs an ex-fireman\, he smiled and nodded when he realized that the fire hydrants were buried underground\, marked by tall red poles topped with metal signs. It made complete sense to him as something one would do in a country the size of the Pacific West Coast\, with half the population of the U.S.\, and 75% of the land too mountainous for buildings. He very much appreciated the way manhole covers were works of art usually related to the town’s location or primary product. \nThey found a first encounter with a Japanese 7-11 fascinating\, seeing new offerings like fried burdock root chips and spaghetti sandwiches. There were also the two basements of the Mitsukoshi Department Store\, founded in 1673 by a kimono fabric merchant who introduced labelled pricing\, selling customers whatever length of fabric they wanted. We wound our way up and down every aisle on each floor\, sampling delicacies and resisting the temptation to buy just about everything. \nAfter viewing the cherry blossoms at Ueno Park\, we spent some time sitting in an outdoor café. As it happened\, the table in front of us was occupied by three young Japanese\, two women and a man. It was hard not to overhear their conversation\, which revealed that what we were witnessing was the introduction of two people by a mutual friend as potential partners for each other. My sister and brother-in-law were fascinated as my wife and I told them what was going on. That led to a deep conversation about Japanese culture\, more satisfying for all of us than any of our temple visits. \nAs we have learned to “not know” how to “save” their first visit to Japan\, we are “saving” their first visit to Japan\, as well as our own visit. \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-35/
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 April 12th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-17/
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 is not teaching today\, but will return on April 15th. 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-guest-host-michael-wilding-2/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: ON BREAK
DESCRIPTION:David is not teaching today\, but will return on April 15th. 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-guest-host-michael-wilding/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.pacificzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/wooden-bucketCALENDAR500x350.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250329T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250329T100000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK — SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not meeting today\, but will return on April 12th. We hope you sign up then!\n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-16/
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:20250325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250325T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T045457
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with Guest Host Michael Wilding
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\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-34/
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:20250318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250318T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Nanquan's Cat – Equanimity Case 9
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nOne day at Nanquan’s\, students of the eastern and western halls were arguing over a cat. Nanquan held up the cat and said\, “If you can say something\, I won’t kill it.” No one could speak\, so Nanquan cut the cat in two.\n                                                                                                          \n That evening\, Zhaozhou returned from a trip and Nanquan brought up what had happened. Zhaozhou took off his sandals\, put them on top of his head\, and walked out. Nanquan said\, “If you had been here\, you’d have saved the cat.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 9 \nWhat came to me as I started keeping company with this koan was the first precept about killing. I can’t think of any other koans in which something is literally killed. Lots of people experience the “great death\,” “killed” by their teacher’s words or actions\, but none literally: It is their relationship to their ideas about themselves and the world that gets killed. \nI did come across a story about an old teacher named Chan Master Fori\, also known as Dahui\, who is credited with innovating the koan meditation practice. So\, a well known and respected teacher. The name “Fori” was given to him by the Emperor in recognition of his excellence as a teacher\, and it means “Buddha Sun.” \nFori was having tea with a group when he saw a cat coming\, and tossed a dove from his sleeve\, giving it to the cat\, which took it and went away. Fori said\, “Excellent!” It’s not exactly the same as Nanquan killing the cat\, but… \nWhat came next to keep me company is a story from the Bible called The Judgment of Solomon\, in which Solomon rules with two women who both claim to be the mother of a child. Solomon orders the baby to be cut in half\, with each woman to receive one half. The first accepts the compromise as fair\, but the second begs Solomon to give the baby to her rival\, preferring the baby to live\, even without her. Solomon orders the baby given to the second woman\, her love being selfless\, as opposed to the first woman’s selfish disregard for the baby’s actual wellbeing. \nWe don’t know exactly what the monks were arguing about in regards to that cat. It would be easy to assume\, since they were monks from different halls\, that they were arguing about where the cat belonged—perhaps they had a mouse problem. \nSome commentators note that monastic communities of the time were divided into two parts. One part devoted themselves to meditation and formal traditional spiritual practice and the other worked to support the monastery as their main practice\, in the fields and in the kitchens. As you might imagine\, they could have different ideas about what “practice” was. Perhaps they were arguing about whether the cat had Buddha nature or not. Whatever they were arguing about doesn’t matter\, really. What matters is that they could not respond. \nHave you ever found yourself in a situation where you couldn’t respond? This koan is an opportunity to look into that. The stakes don’t have to be as high as the life or death of a cat to create a situation in which we get stuck. \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 March 15th here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Baizhang’s Fox
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere is a fine line between observing the self\, selfing the self and dissociation. Basically\, in dissociation there is a lack of connection and there lies the difference. Observing the mind in meditation enhances connection\, it does not sever it. \nIt is a common mistake to imagine that meditation leads to a state of serenity in all situations. What meditation does lead us to is being more who we really are and there is a certain equanimity that comes with that. In this koan\, the old man is suffering from the belief that it is possible to sever the chains of karma. That it is possible to always move through life with serenity\, unaffected by the world around him. \nUpon closer observation\, over a long time—five hundred lifetimes\, the story tells us—he comes to notice the cost of his belief and instead of leaving\, as he has done so many times before\, he stays. He stays after the talk\, and he stays in his life\, just as it is\, just as he is and he discovers freedom. \nWhat do you notice when you stay and don’t leave? What do you notice when you leave? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-32/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Equanimity Case 7 – Yaoshan Ascends the Rostrum
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nYaoshan hadn’t given a talk for a long time. The Administrator of the temple said\,\n“Everyone has been anxious for instruction for quite a while. Please\, will you give a teaching?”\nYaoshan called for the bell and everyone gathered. He climbed up to the seat.\nThen\, after a long time\, he climbed down and returned to his quarters.\nThe Administrator followed after him and asked\, “You agreed to give a teaching\nfor everyone; why didn’t you say a single word?”\nYaoshan said\, “For sutras\, there are sutra specialists. For commentaries\, there are\ncommentary specialists. What do you want from me?”\n\n—Book of Serenity Case 7 \nIn the first case of Equanimity we had the Buddha ascending the rostrum\, now we have Yaoshan ascending the rostrum in the same way. Is the repetition just in case we didn’t get it the first time? Either Hongzhi\, who originally collected the koans\, or Wansong\, who took Hongzhi’s collection and added commentary\, chose to give these two cases the same name\, except for the name of the protagonist. They must have appreciated that the same point was being made and at the same time recognized that something different was being offered in the case of Yaoshan. \nWith Yaoshan we have the conversation that happens after he descends from the rostrum and that’s where my attention went. Then a story about Yaoshan and his teacher Shitou joined in the conversation. That story goes like this: \nOne day Shitou came upon Yaoshan sitting in the garden. He asked Yaoshan what he was doing and Yaoshan said\, “I’m not doing anything.” To which Shitou replied\, “Why are you sitting here wasting time?” Yaoshan replied\, “If I was wasting time\, then I’d be doing something.” Shitou then said\, “What is this ‘not doing anything’ that you’re talking about?” Yaoshan said\, “Not even the 10\,000 sages know.”\n\nIn the koan that we kept company with before this one\, it was elder brother Hai who said he didn’t know\, placing himself firmly in the ranks of the 10\,000 sages. \nAs to what Yaoshan’s specialty was\, it seems obvious\, it was “not doing anything.” \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-31/
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 March 1st here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-15/
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: Mazu's Black and White
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Mazu\, “Without talking about philosophy\,\nplease tell me simply why Bodhidharma came from the West?”\nMazu said\, “Today I’m worn out and can’t explain it to you.\nGo find Zhizang and ask him.”\nThe student asked Zhizang\, who said\, “Why didn’t you ask the teacher?”\n“He told me to ask you.”\n“I have a headache today and can’t explain it to you.\nGo and find Elder Brother Hai and ask him.”\nThe student asked Hai\, who said\, “Ever since I came to this place I haven’t been able to explain that.”\nThe student told Mazu about this.\nMazu said\, “Zhizang’s hair is white\, Hai’s hair is black.” \n—Mazu’s Black and White\, Book of Serenity Case 6 \nAs soon as I started spending time with this koan\, a similar story involving Mazu came to mind: \nMazu and Baizhang had gone on a walk and seen wild geese fly away\, and Mazu asked Baizhang where they had gone. Baizhang responded\, “They flew away.” Mazu grabbed and twisted Baizhang’s nose and Baizhang cried out in pain. Mazu said\, “They haven’t gone anywhere at all.” Baizhang had an awakening experience.  \nAfter that experience\, Baizhang returned to the monk’s quarters and sat\, quietly weeping. One of his friends asked why he was weeping\, and Baizhang said\, “Go ask Mazu.” So Baizhang’s friend asked Mazu\, who replied\, “Go back and asked Baizhang.”  \nHe went back and arrived at the monk’s quarters to find Baizhang laughing. He said to Baizhang\, “Just a little while ago you were crying and now you’re laughing. What’s going on?” Baizhang replied\, “A little while ago I was crying and now I’m laughing.” \nWhose head was white and whose head was black in that situation? \nAt that point another koan came along to join the conversation. \nMujaku asked her teacher Bukko\, “What is Zen?”\nAnd Bukko replied\, “The heart of the one who asks. You cannot get it from another’s words.” \nMy mind throws up the question: If you cannot get it from another’s words\, then what’s the point of asking? In response to that\, I hear the first teaching I received about koan practice:  \n“Make your mind a question mark.”  \nWhether the question is “What is Zen?” or “Why are you weeping?” or “Why did Bodhidharma come from the West?” You cannot get the answer from another’s words. When brother Hai said\, “Ever since I came to this place I haven’t been able to explain that\,” he was not expressing any deficiency on his part. \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-30/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Saturday Zen for PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not meeting today\, but will return on March 1st. We hope you sign up then!\n\nAbout Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-on-break/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Qingyuan’s Price of Rice
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Qingyuan\, “What’s the deep meaning of the Buddha’s teachings?”\nQingyuan said\, “What does rice cost in Luling?” \n—Book of Serenity Case 5 \nWhen I first encountered this koan I thought it was an elaboration on Nanquan’s “Ordinary mind is the way.” As it turned out it was the other way around. Nanquan was born seven years after Qingyuan died\, so it’s Nanquan who was elaborating on Qingyuan. \nNanquan’s “Ordinary Mind” leaves it to our imagination to fill in the blanks of what Ordinary Mind is. Qingyuan points directly at it. There isn’t the wiggle room that Nanquan leaves about what exactly Ordinary Mind is\, which can lead to a kind of special Ordinary Mind\, the one we think it is. There are all kinds of similar directly pointing teachings\, like one from Nanquan himself: \nA monk asked Nanquan\, “What is the way?” Nanquan replied\, “This sickle cost $3.” \nThen there is also: \nA monk asked Dongshan\, “What is Buddha?” Dongshan said\, “Three pounds of flax.” \nA monk asked Yunmen\, “What is Buddha?” Yunmen said\, “Dried shitstick.” \nA monk asked Zhaozhou\, “What is the meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West?” Zhaozhou said\, “The oak tree in the courtyard.” \nAnother time Zhaozhou said\, “In Zhenzhou they grow giant radishes. \nYunmen said\, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs around the latrine.” \nZhaozhou said\, “When I was in Qingzhou\, I made a cloth robe. It weighed nine pounds.” \nYunmen said\, “Five sesame buns and three bowls of tea!” \nI say\, “Last night someone gave me something called a Cookie Cake\, I ate the whole thing.” \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-29/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Book of Equanimity Case 4
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAs I spend more time this koan\, I find myself remembering all the many places the Oakland group has meditated since 1989. Initially it was in a tiny student apartment of the Graduate Theological Seminary\, where we sat in a living room lined with bookcases. We sat facing the wall in those days\, so we sat facing a wall of books\, an interesting something to have in front of the eyes that were not open nor closed. \nThen there were a couple of Montessori kindergartens\, where we had to move all the little chairs and desks out of the way and sit facing art done by the students or the latest project in a terrarium\, right at eye level. When one of those kindergartens had a fire and we had to find a place with no notice\, we reached out to Jerry Brown. He had been in Kamakura for nine months practicing at the San Un Zendo\, and shared the house in which I was living. We hoped he might have a suggestion for us\, and he did: his living room. We sat for about four years in that living room\, in the American Bag Company building\, while his We the People headquarters was being built on the adjoining lot. To say it was his living room would be an overstatement—it was a cavernous space on the second floor where Jerry had his bedroom. There was another room that we used for conversations. When Jerry moved from there to the We the People building\, we were invited to join the community there. \nThen there was the Unitarian church where another meditation group used the room below us while we gathered\, complaining that we made too much noise as we meditated. We never got a complaint from Art’s Crab Shack\, our next location\, a bar and restaurant above which we sat for about eight years. I still miss feeling the floorboards vibrating with the sound of the jukebox as we meditated\, and the roar of fans during Monday Night Football. \nThere was the office of an environmental engineer—a member of the group—where I had conversations with folks in the men’s bathroom. It was quite a nice room with a high ceiling\, nice brick walls and judicious placement of shoji screens so you wouldn’t know it was a bathroom except for the sign on the door. \nAnd there was the employee lounge of a consulting group which specialized in helping cannabis dispensaries set up business. Due to the nature of their business\, a high percentage of employees used ‘medicine’ and the lounge was the designated place to do it. It was designated the ‘Medication/Meditation Room.’ \nBefore moving to Rockridge\, there was a suite of three offices in the fruit and vegetable district of downtown Oakland. When we met\, early in the morning\, for conversations\, the streets were bustling with trucks and forklifts getting produce out to markets and restaurants. In the evening when we met\, it was deserted and kind of spooky. Several folks didn’t feel comfortable going there. \nThen\, finally\, there was Rockridge\, our first 24/7 space\, and it was great for another eight years. Interestingly\, the woman who ran the hair salon downstairs also complained that we made too much noise when we meditated. \nAnd then there was the pandemic and Zoom. \nTo be at home in whatever situation arises is what Linji meant when he said “Take the role of host and you will be in a true place.” That is the place we cultivate with our meditation practice\, wherever we put our blade of grass. \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-28/
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 February 8th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-14/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Equanimity Case 3
DESCRIPTION:A king of Eastern India invited the Twenty-Seventh Ancestor\, Prajnatara\, to a vegetarian meal. “Why don’t you read from the sutras?” he asked her. \nPrajnatara said\, “I’m a poor person of the Way: When I breathe in I don’t live in the world my mind makes\, and when I breathe out I don’t get caught up in the world of cause and effect. I’m always turning the wheel of the sutras—a hundred\, a thousand\, ten thousand\, a hundred thousand scrolls.” \n—Book of Serenity Case 3 \nAs I sat with this koan\, the first thing that came to me were Bodhidharma’s words to Emperor Wu\, “Vast emptiness\, nothing holy.” Nothing holy because everything is holy. \nThen a koan from our miscellaneous collection came to join the conversation: \nAll the Buddhas and the Buddha’s teachings arise from this sutra. What is this sutra? \nThat koan is attributed to Shishuang\, who also gave us: \nHow do you take a step from the 100-foot pole? \nWhich he followed with helpful advice: \nYou who sit on the top of a hundred-foot pole\, although you have entered the Way\, it is not yet genuine. Take a step from the hundred-foot pole and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body. \nWhen you’ve entered the way genuinely and the Worlds of the Ten Directions are your total body\, everything you do is turning the wheel of the sutras. \nTurned any wheels lately? How about the steering wheel on your car? \n—David Weinstein\, February 11th\, 2025 \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \n  \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-27/
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: Equanimity #2: Vast Emptiness\, Nothing Holy
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nEmperor Wu asked the great teacher Bodhidharma\,\n“What is the first principle of the holy teaching?”\nBodhidharma said\, “Vast emptiness\, nothing holy.”\n“Who are you\, standing here in front of me?” asked the Emperor.\n“I don’t know\,” said Bodhidharma.\nThe Emperor didn’t understand.\nBodhidharma crossed the river and went into the Kingdom of Wei. \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 1\, & Book of Serenity Case 2 (translation by John Tarrant & Joan Sutherland) \nAs I have been sitting with this snippet of the longer story of the meeting between Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu\, I am reminded that the Emperor’s question about the first principle came after he had asked Bodhidharma about the merit he had gained from all of the good works he had done in promoting the teachings. Bodhidharma’s response was\, “No merit whatsoever.” That puts the question about the first principle into a different context for me. \nI imagine Emperor Wu to have been taken aback by Bodhidharma’s response. Asking about the first principle feels like the Emperor’s first salvo in defending himself from\, and arguing against\, Bodhidharma’s assessment. I imagine the emperor thought the first principle would have supported doing good works as he had done. But Bodhidharma was bringing a different kind of practice with him than what had been familiar to the Emperor. Bodhidharma’s practice was the practice of Prajna Paramita\, the practice of his teacher Prajnatara. The teaching of vast emptiness and nothing holy. When the Emperor confronts Bodhidharma by asking him\, “Who are you\, standing here in front of me?” I hear him saying\, “Who are you to speak to me that way after all I have done for the teaching?” \nAs for Bodhidharma’s response of\, “I don’t know” I think he was being genuine. Not in the sense of quoting doctrine\, but rather truly questioning himself. I imagine that prior to asking about the merit he had accumulated\, the Emperor detailed exactly what all those good works were. How could he not offer doing some good works specifically for Bodhidharma himself\, or at least imply that he was open to doing so. That would certainly be a feather in the Emperor’s cap. I further imagine that Bodhidharma may very well have been tempted by the Emperor’s offer\, which may have shocked him and led him to question just how well he knew himself. \nWe are told that after this encounter with the Emperor\, Bodhidharma went and faced a wall for either seven or nine years\, depending on the version of the story. We’re also told that while facing the wall meditating\, after having dozed off during his meditation\, he cut off his eyelids\, giving him that signature glare. I think if he truly knew who he was and truly didn’t know who he was\, he wouldn’t have done that. \nBut that’s just my dream of this koan\, what’s yours? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nCOME JOIN US on Tuesdays for koan meditation\, dharma talk and conversation.\nRegister to participate. All are welcome. \nDavid Weinstein Roshi\, Director of Rockridge Meditation Community \n 
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION: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 January 25th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
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CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Just This Is It – #1 Equanimity
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\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 World-Honored One then stepped down from the rostrum. \n—Book of Serenity Case 1 \nWhen I started keeping company with this koan\, the first thing that came along was the conversation between Dongshan and Yunyan on Dongshan’s departure: \nDongshan asked Yunyan\, “Later on\, if I am asked to describe your teachings\, what should I tell people?” Yunyan replied: “Just this is it.”  \nWhile I was at KoKo-An Zendo in Honolulu\, Aitken Roshi would invite a professor\, David Kalapuhana from the University of Hawaii philosophy department\, to give a talk. His field of interest was what he called “Original Buddhism\,” what others know as Theravada Buddhism. What interested Aitken was Kalapuhana’s feeling that Chan\, and later Zen\, were movements back towards the original teachings of the Buddha. An example of that is Donsghan\, an 8th century Chan teacher\, echoing a teaching of the Buddha. \nI also remembered that in China—and I’m assuming also in India—there are records of people traveling great distances to seek teachings: hundreds and even thousands of miles. I found myself imagining being one of those people having walked many miles to come for the teaching of the Buddha only to have him ascend the rostrum and then descend without saying a word. \nI’m sure there were those who appreciated the inexpressible nature of the teachings and the Buddha’s demonstration of that\, who understood that Manjusri was pointing to it. I think Manjusri was equally pointing to the experience of those who were terribly disappointed at having come so far only to the Buddha’s voice. \nThat’s when Hakuin came along and asked\, \nIs it in the shit and the piss? \nIn one version of the Book of Equanimity\, there is text below the title which reads\, \nWhen a dragon appears as the dragon of having a flat tire. \nHad any flat tires 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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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: A Fierce Wind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThe minister Yu Di asked Xi Yu Daotang about a line in the scripture. “What is meant by\, ‘A fierce winds blew the ship off course and set it drifting toward the land of the flesh-eating demons?’”  \nThe master replied\, “Minister\, why are you so ignorant? Why are you asking about that?” The minister’s face turned white. \nThe master said\, “A fierce wind blew them off course and set them adrift toward the land of the flesh-eating demons.” The minister understood.  \n— Entangling Vines Case 39 \nWith pirates in control of the morning meditation\, I found myself asking what koan is alive for me during this time—this one about the fierce wind blowing the ship off course. \nThe scripture referred to in the koan is the Lotus Sutra\, and I went to the Lotus Sutra to see what I could see. I saw that the next line in the sutra is\, \nBut if even only one person can remember the name of the bodhisattva of compassion\, all are saved. \nIt’s interesting that the line about “all are saved” was left out of the koan. I suppose the minister left it out! The quote he brought to the teacher did not include that line. That’s interesting. How we can be looking at how all can be saved and not see it? \nFreshly back from a couple of weeks in Japan—which were great—it’s not about the way I felt blown off course by a fierce wind and set adrift towards the land of the flesh-eating demons. Rather\, it’s about the way I remembered the name of the bodhisattva of compassion. I will share more about that on Tuesday. \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 January 11th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-12/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today\, but will return on January 14th. 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 
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today and will return on January 7th. We hope to see you 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 
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:David Weinstein is not teaching today and will return on January 7th. We hope to see you 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 
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