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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/
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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
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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
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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/
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-26/
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 January 25th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-13/
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: 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-25/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-24/
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 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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-7/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION: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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-6/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION: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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241217T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Dongshan’s Second View
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYou find yourself to be an old woman\nYou’re sleeping late.\nWhen you wake up you come upon an ancient mirror\nAnd you see your own face clearly.\nTry not to lose sight of it again and go chasing shadows. \n—2nd of Dongshan’s Five Ranks \nAs I’ve spent time with Dongshan’s second perspective—on the relationship between form and emptiness—I continue to be interested in using Dogen’s writings to get a perspective on Dongshan’s perspective. \nPossibly the most well known of Dogen’s statements appears in his writings on the Genjokoan\, sometimes translated as “The Way of Everyday Life.” \nThis statement is a kind of verse\, Dogen’s capping phrase on the relationship between form and emptiness. It goes something like this: \nTo study the Way is to study the self.\nTo study the self is to forget the self.\nTo forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.\nTo be enlightened by the ten thousand things is to free one’s body and mind and those of others.\nNo trace of enlightenment remains.\nAnd this traceless enlightenment continues forever. \nDogen’s “to forget the self” resonates with Dongshan’s\, “you see a face from long ago that you do not recognize.” It makes sense that if I forget myself\, I will not recognize myself. But more than that\, it speaks to experiencing the un-recognizability of the self\, the un-graspability of the self. \nDongshan’s second perspective feels connected to Dogen’s\, “To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.” When we see ourselves clearly\, as the old woman does when she looks in the mirror\, everything we look at has our face. More than a mirror—it’s like a window looking out on the 10\,000 things. \nI’m still sitting with finding myself to be an old woman\, what’s that about? \nMore on Tuesday\, see you then. \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-21/
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting for December 14th here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-11/
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: Dongshan’s Five Ranks
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIt’s past midnight\nthe moon has not yet risen.\nIn the deep dark you see a face from long ago\nthat you do not recognize.\nNo need to be surprised by this. \nThis is the first of Dongshan’s Five Ranks. “Rank” engages my ranking mind and perhaps that’s the point—an opportunity to know more deeply the way my mind ranks. Alternate translations are “modes\,” “vantage points\,” “perspectives\,” or “angles.” \nThe Five Ranks don’t necessarily occur in the order that they are presented nor are they neatly separate from each other. They’re sometimes likened to Linji’s four modes. \nThis first mode of Dongshan’s is called various things: “the contingent within the essential\,” “the phenomenon within the universal\,” “the particular within the universal”—you get the idea. Perhaps Linji’s description will help: “Sometimes I steal the place\, but not the person.” \nLinji went on to say a bit more about this mode: \nThe rule of the sovereign prevails throughout the world;\nthe general in the borderlands is unstained by smoke and dust. \nBeen out to the borderlands lately? \nThe Chinese characters for “particular” and “universal” literally mean “straight or upright” and “slanted or askew.” Intuitively that feels right just as “bouba” feels round and “kiki” feels pointed. \nThat the moon has not risen—a moonless night—reminds me of another koan: \nThe moon set at midnight;\nwe walk through the town alone.  \nEver done that? \nThe Japanese teacher Keizan’s comment: \nIf you release a blackbird at night\, it flies clothed in snow. \nSeen any blackbirds flying at night lately? \nSee you on Tuesday to compare notes. \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-22/
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Not Knowing Is Most Intimate
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nDizang asked Fayan\, “Where are you going from here?”\nFayan said\, “I’m on pilgrimage.”\n“What sort of thing is pilgrimage?”\n“I don’t know.”\n“Not knowing is most intimate.”\nFayan suddenly had a great awakening. \nThis meeting between Dizang and Fayan occurred while Fayan was on pilgrimage with some of his fellow monks\, when they were forced to take shelter at Dizang’s monastery in a sudden snowstorm. When the snow stopped and they were ready to leave\, Dizang asked Fayan the question that begins the koan: \nWhere are you going from here? \nEvidently Fayan’s companions were not as impressed with Dizang’s statement about “not knowing” as Fayan was. They pressed on with their pilgrimage and Fayan chose to stay with Dizang for a while. We are told that Fayan had a great awakening at hearing Dizang’s words. That he chose to stay longer says something about there being no end to practice even after great awakening. \nTrying to clarify his experience during his time with Dizang\, in response to whatever he brought to the teacher\, Dizang would say\, “The teachings are not like that.” \nFinally Fayan decided to continue on with his pilgrimage. On the day of his departure Dizang accompanied him to the gate of the temple. He said to Fayan\, “I have heard you say many times that everything is in the mind. What about that boulder next to the gate? Is it in the mind also?” Fayan replied\, “Yes\, it is.” To which Dizang said\, “Isn’t it going to be difficult to go on pilgrimage with a boulder in your mind?” At that point Fayan had another great awakening experience and decided to stay a bit longer with Dizang. \nDuring that additional time\, every time Fayan spoke with Dizang trying to clarify his understanding\, Dizang would say\, “The teachings are not like that.” Finally\, Fayan came to Dizang and said\, “I have used up everything\, my mind is empty\, I have nothing to say.” At which point Dizang said\, “It is exactly that empty mind in which mountains and rivers and the boulder next to the temple gate appear.” At which point Fayan had another great awakening experience taking him deeper into “not knowing being most intimate.” \nIt is not easy to not know. We must forget what we know and forget that we have forgotten. \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-23/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Coral Moonlight
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nBaling’s Three Turning Words \nWhat is Zen?\nSnow in a silver bowl. \nWhat is the Way?\nThe clearly enlightened person falls into a well. \nWhat is the blown-hair sword?\nEach branch of coral holds up the moon. \nHaving spent time with the clearly enlightened person falling into a well and then with each branch of coral holding up the moon\, I suppose it was only natural for snow in a silver bowl to come along to complete the triptych of Baling’s Three Turning Words. The refuge vows also came along to join in the conversation. Perhaps Yunmen also appreciated the parallel. \nAt the time\, it was the custom to present a poem to your teacher when you had an awakening experience. Instead of a poem\, Baling offered these three koans to his teacher. Yunmen responded\, “On the anniversary of my death\, just recite these three turning words\, and you will have repaid my kindness in full.” \nFor me\, the first of the refuge vows\, taking refuge in awakening\, is the first of Baling’s turning words. You might ask yourself\, ”What is it about the image of snow in a silver bowl that could be about awakening?” \nThe second refuge vow\, taking refuge in the Way\, is kind of a no-brainer. The Way is a clearly enlightened person falling into a well. You might ask yourself\, “What is it about a clearly enlightened person falling into a well that is the Way?” \nAnd finally\, the third refuge vow\, taking refuge in my companions/community. Again\, you might ask yourself\, “What is it about each branch of coral holding up the moon that speaks to taking refuge in community?” \nI will be continuing to ask myself these questions and we all will have the opportunity to share the results 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-4/
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 November 23rd here.\n \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-10/
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:20241119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Red Thread
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nAt our last gathering of Tuesday Zen\, I fell into a well and didn’t even realize it until the next morning. Although I had prepared to discuss the red thread koan\, I spent the whole evening talking about the fully awakened person falling into a well\, believing that was the koan I had actually planned on talking about. \nIt wasn’t a choice. I wasn’t aware of what I had done until the next morning\, having completely fallen into the well of the well koan. So\, this coming Tuesday\, I plan on bringing the red thread koan\, again. I’m curious to see what happens. \nThere is an old Chinese story featuring the red thread\, involving a young boy. \nWalking home one night a boy saw an old man standing in the moonlight. The man explained to the boy that a red thread was connecting him to his destined wife. The old man then showed him the girl who was destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife\, the boy picked up a rock\, threw it at her\, and ran away.  \nMany years later\, when the boy had grown into a young man\, his parents arranged a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding\, his wife waited for him in their bedroom\, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it\, the man was delighted to find that his wife was a great beauty. However\, she wore an adornment on her eyebrow. She explained that when she was a girl\, a boy threw a rock that struck her face\, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She wore the adornment to cover it up. It was the same young girl\, connected to him by the red thread\, that the old man had revealed to him when he was a boy.   \nThe lesson of this old Chinese story would seem to be that you can’t fight fate. \nBuddhism took the story\, as it took many other stories and images from the existing Chinese culture\, and tweaked it. The way it changed is reminiscent of Indra’s Net\, a metaphor dating back to the pre-Hindu Vedic tradition\, used to describe the interconnectedness of all things. Indra’s Net has a jewel at each intersection which reflects all other jewels in the net. It is an image not only of interconnectedness but also of interpenetration. \nA millennium later Leonardo DaVinci put it this way\, “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” An alternate translation I have seen has it as\, “Everything is everything.” Half a millennium after Leonardo\, the Beatles put it this way\, “I am you and you are me and we are all together.” \nAs for the rock throwing in the original Chinese story\, it is not fate we resist\, it is our interconnectedness and interpenetration that we resist—the result of the anxiety of the self losing its rank. \nThrown any rocks lately? \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-19/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Red Thread
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nThere is an old Chinese story featuring the red thread\, involving a young boy. \nWalking home one night a boy saw an old man standing in the moonlight. The man explained to the boy that a red thread was connecting him to his destined wife. The old man then showed him the girl who was destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife\, the boy picked up a rock\, threw it at her\, and ran away.  \nMany years later\, when the boy had grown into a young man\, his parents arranged a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding\, his wife waited for him in their bedroom\, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it\, the man was delighted to find that his wife was a great beauty. However\, she wore an adornment on her eyebrow. She explained that when she was a girl\, a boy threw a rock that struck her face\, leaving a scar on her eyebrow. She wore the adornment to cover it up. It was the same young girl\, connected to him by the red thread\, that the old man had revealed to him when he was a boy.   \nThe lesson of this old Chinese story would seem to be that you can’t fight fate. \nBuddhism took the story\, as it took many other stories and images from the existing Chinese culture\, and tweaked it. The way it changed is reminiscent of Indra’s Net\, a metaphor dating back to the pre-Hindu Vedic tradition\, used to describe the interconnectedness of all things. Indra’s Net has a jewel at each intersection which reflects all other jewels in the net. It is an image not only of interconnectedness but also of interpenetration. \nA millennium later Leonardo DaVinci put it this way\, “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” An alternate translation I have seen has it as\, “Everything is everything.” Half a millennium after Leonardo\, the Beatles put it this way\, “I am you and you are me and we are all together.” \nAs for the rock throwing in the original Chinese story\, it is not fate we resist\, it is our interconnectedness and interpenetration that we resist—the result of the anxiety of the self losing its rank. \nThrown any rocks 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-peach-blossoms/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241105T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Entering the Bath Together
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nIn the old days there were sixteen bodhisattvas.\nThey all got into the bath together and realized the cause of water.\nThey called out\, “This subtle touch reveals the light that is in everything.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 78 \nBeing in retreat last week felt like this koan\, though it was more like fifty bodhisattvas entering the bath together. \nDuring the course of retreat I heard various experiences of entering the water. Some people entered the water easily but after a couple of days things got too hot. Others had a hard time getting in from the get go\, lowering themselves slowly inch by inch. Some folks seemed to dive in\, with various results. \nThe same was true for the sixteen bodhisattvas in the version of this story that appears in the Surangama Sutra. That version goes on to say\, \nWe did not wash off dirt\, did not wash the body.\nWe achieved peace of mind and obtained the state of no-possession. \nIf you have ever entered a bath so hot that once you were in you didn’t want to move because each movement renewed the experience of first entering the water\, which was no easy matter\, then I think you have some idea of what obtaining a “state of no-possession” is like. \nAs if to emphasize the point about not washing dirt off\, Xuedou\, who first collected the one hundred cases of the Blue Cliff Record\, commented in his verse on this case: \nIf the sixteen ancients said they were enlightened\,\nLet them emerge from the scented water\, and I would spit at them! \nWe don’t do this practice to purify ourselves\, to rid ourselves of delusions. If that is what you are doing\, watch out for Xuedou’s spit. \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-20/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:  \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 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting here. (Event has passed.) \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-9/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Peach Blossoms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nLingyun was wandering in the mountains and became lost in his walking.\nHe rounded a bend and saw peach blossoms on the other side of the valley.\nThe sight awakened him and he wrote:\n \nFor thirty years I sought a sword master.\nHow many times have leaves fallen\nand new buds appeared?\nBut from the moment I saw the peach blossoms\,\nI’ve had no doubts.\n \nSome centuries later\, across the water in Japan\, Keizan wrote: \nThe village peach blossoms didn’t know\ntheir own pink\nbut still they freed Lingyun\nfrom all his doubts. \n—PZI Miscellaneous Koans Case 37 \nWhat first jumped out at me from this koan is\,“…From the moment I saw the peach blossoms\, I’ve had no doubts.” \nI thought\, “But what about great doubt?” It is said to be essential for the practice. The formula is: Great doubt leads to great faith\, which leads to great effort. \nThen there were Keizan’s comments centuries later\, which seem to be equally about the peach blossoms as they are about Lingyun. A question arose in my mind regarding the phrase\, “freed Lingyun from all his doubts.” I thought\, “And that is a good thing?” No doubt would lead to no great faith which would lead to no great effort\, wouldn’t it? Was Keizan maybe pointing that out? \nI then bumped into a couple of comments that also caught my attention. The first was from Xuansha Shibei who said\, “Lingyun may well have been right\, but I’ll guarantee that his understanding was incomplete.” The other was from Dachuan who said\, “A thief has no peace of mind.” \nWhat arose in me upon these readings was\, “It has no power for the Way.” So I’m going to sit with all of this and with my doubtful character and make a report about it this 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 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-19-5/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid is in sesshin today\, returning to Tuesday Zen on October 29th. \nHope to see you then! \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/on-break-tuesday-zen-with-david-weinstein-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:  \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 \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David \n 
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-8/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Jinniu's Spirit of Joy and Play
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nJinniu’s Spirit of Joy and Play \nEvery day at mealtime\, Jinniu himself would take the buckets of rice to the front of the monastery hall\, where he’d dance and laugh heartily\, saying\, “Bodhisattvas\, come and eat your rice!”\n\n(Xuedou comments: Jinniu wasn’t being kindhearted.)\n\nLater\, a student asked Changqing\, “In the old days someone said\, ‘Bodhisattvas\, come and eat your rice!’ What did he mean?”\n\nChangqing replied\, “That’s a grace before the meal.” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 74 \nWhen this koan about Jinniu came along\, I immediately had an image to accompany it\, by the 18th-century Japanese Zen monk and artist Sengai. It is not an image of Jinniu\, but rather of Hotei\, one of the seven gods of good luck. He is often depicted playing with children and sometimes called the Laughing Buddha.  \nThe inscription by Sengai on the image says\, “How old are you\, dear moon? Thirteen and seven?” Hotei is always depicted carrying a large cloth bag over his back\, one that never empties; he uses it to feed the poor and needy. It includes an inexhaustible cache of treasures\, including food and drink. \nThere’s something about Hotei’s unbridled joy\, evident in Sengai’s picture\, that feels like the kind of joy Jinniu must have felt each time he brought the rice into the meditation hall. That kind of joy doesn’t get talked about much in the koans\, so I appreciate this example.  \nThough serious business\, koan practice is also a kind of deep play. In that way\, when having a conversation with someone about a koan\, it can feel less like an examination or a test than about playing together—entering each other’s imaginations and our own.  \nCan you imagine 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-19-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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