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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/
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 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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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/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T193000
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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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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T075751
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Relying on Disorderly Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nRelying on Disorderly Consciousness \nGuishan asked Yangshan\, “Suppose that out of the blue\, someone asks you\, ‘All sentient beings only have disorderly consciousness\, boundless and with no foundation to rely on.’ How would you conduct an inquiry into this?” \nYangshan said\, “If a student like that came\, I’d call\, ‘Hey so and so!’ When the student turns her head\, then I’d say\, ‘What is it?’ Then I’d wait while she thinks about it. Then I’d say\, ‘Not only is disorderly consciousness boundless but also there is no foundation to rely on.’”\nGuishan said\, “Good!” \nWe just got back from two weeks in Europe: half in Spain and half in Italy. Nothing like travel to appreciate disorderly consciousness being boundless. \nPlanning for the trip is an exercise attempting to make things orderly\, which is an exercise in disorderly consciousness itself. Plane reservations\, hotel reservations\, reservations for tours\, guidebooks. \nBut when you are told that the seats on your boarding pass\, which you chose so carefully months in advance\, are not the seats that you are going to be sitting in\, you can imagine the kind of disorderly consciousness that might arise. And when the plane taking you to Barcelona has only one working toilet for the entire plane\, you can imagine the kind disorderly consciousness that might arise. Or when Google maps correctly leads you to a shop that is listed as open\, but it is closed … it doesn’t feel like there is much that can be relied on. \nI suppose it’s no different than the kinds of situations I run into in my everyday life. But traveling is an adventure. Sure\, I make plans and get reservations\, but when in ‘traveling mode’ there is a higher likelihood of me appreciating that part of the adventure is things not going the way they are “supposed” to go and being open to see where they do go. \nRemembering that I am always ‘travelling\,’ even when home\, might be something like what Basho was thinking about when he wrote\, \nEvery day is a journey\, and the journey itself is home. \nJoin us 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-19-2/
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 here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-7/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241001T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:DAVID IS AWAY TODAY: COME JOIN US NEXT WEEK \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-19-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \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-18/2024-09-24/
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:20240917T193000
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \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-18/2024-09-17/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240910T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T075751
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \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-18/2024-09-10/
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:20240903T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T075751
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SUMMARY:ON BREAK: Tuesday Zen with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:NO TUESDAY ZEN TODAY \nDavid Weinstein is on break until October 1st. Please join us then! \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-18/2024-09-03/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240831T100000
DTSTAMP:20260426T075751
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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 here (link coming soon). \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-3-4/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240827T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240827T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Opening Your Storehouse of Treasures
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nOpening Your Storehouse of Treasures\nThe storehouse of treasures opens of itself.\nYou may take them and use them any way you wish. \n—Dogen \nA number of koans came along to keep me company as I was keeping company with the storehouse of treasures. The first one involves Mazu: \nMazu asked: “What do you seek?”\n“Enlightenment\,” replied the student.\n“You have your own storehouse of treasure. Why do you search outside?” Mazu asked.\nThe student inquired: “Where is my storehouse of treasure?”\nMazu answered: “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure.” \nI could hear echoes of Dogen’s “opens of itself” in Mazu’s “What you are asking is the storehouse of treasures.” Then a koan involving Yunmen came along to join the conversation: \nA student asked Yunmen\, “This is not the function of mind. This is not the matter before me. What is it?”\nYunmen immediately cried\, “One teaching upside-down!” \nThat upside-downness in Yunmen’s response had a lively conversation with Mazu’s  “What you are asking is your storehouse of treasure” and the “opens of itself” of Dogen. \nAnd then another koan came along to join the party: \nA student asked Bukko\, “What is Zen?”\nBukko replied\, “The heart of the one who asks is Zen.” \nIt felt kind of like Scrabble with koans\, except I was watching it happen\, not doing it\, which is how my encounters with the storehouse of treasures unfold—it opens by itself\, true enough\, but I don’t “take” a treasure nor do I “use” it—it just comes and that’s enough; maybe I could say that I get used by it. \nThe other thing I notice is that I don’t always recognize the treasure that comes until later. That kind of experience pushes up against my ideas of what a treasure looks like\, a treasure in itself. \nDo you know what I mean? \nJoin us 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-17-5/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240820T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Delicious Delusion
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nDelicious Delusion\nYour idea of wanting to control your passions and delusions is itself delusion:\nit exchanges the awakened mind for delusion. \n—Bankei \nShortly after last week’s koan about “not an inch of grass for a thousand miles\,” this koan from Bankei came along to keep me company. I appreciated the way Bankei and Dongshan were coming from different directions to the same place regarding our relationship to delusions (or grass). \nWhat the 17th century Japanese Zen teacher Bankei calls delusion is what the 20th century Tibetan teacher Lama Yeshe used to call negative mind. Not negative just because it was an unpleasant experience such as anger or sadness\, rather\, negative because it resulted in negative consequences. \nMy personal favorite of his various ways of addressing delusion—negative mind—was when he would call it “chocolate.” He would often say\, “Negative mind … isn’t it wonderful? Like chocolate.” \nThere is nothing negative about chocolate\, unless you eat too much of it. If it is a difficult kind of negative mind like sadness or anger\, then it’s a “delicious” opportunity to savor the flavor of it—which will lead to savoring that flavor less in the future\, so long as I don’t judge myself for being an idiot for doing that which I might know better than to do. \nHaving had an introduction to meditation that likened delusion to chocolate has left me particularly open to what Bankei is saying. A meditation practice is not about controlling passions and delusions\, it’s about becoming a connoisseur of them. \nJoin us 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-17-4/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:About Saturday Conversations \nDokusan is the Japanese word for these conversations about meditation practice. It means “to go alone” or “to practice alone.” It is to have a conversation so intimate\, that for both participants it is as if you were talking with and listening to yourself. \nThe word “conversation” (in place of the Japanese word dokusan) has its own way of speaking to the experience. \nEtymologically\, it means “to turn around together.” Meditation is often referred to as a turning around of our attention towards the inside. These conversations about meditation practice are an opportunity for a mutual turning the light around and exploring what’s there. \n—David Weinstein \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nIf you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting here. \nDana gratefully accepted \nQuestions? Contact David
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-3-3/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
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: No Inside or Outside
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nNo Inside or Outside\nDongshan said to the assembly\, “It’s the beginning of autumn\, the end of summer\, and you brothers will go\, some to the east\, some west: you must go where there’s not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles.”\nAnd again he said\, “But where there’s not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles\, how can you go?”\nShishuang said\, “When you go out of the gate\, there is grass all over!”\nDayang said\, “I would say: Even if you don’t go out of the gate\, the grass is everywhere.” \nThis koan from Dongshan came along as I was hanging out with the golden haired-lion last week. It reminds me of another Dongshan koan involving heat and cold and going to a place where there is no heat and cold. Dongshan is speaking to people who had gathered for a retreat. The retreat had lasted for 90 days\, encompassing the rainy season during the summer when pilgrimage was not preferable.  \nAt the end of a retreat\, whether it be 90 days or seven days\, the question that is often asked is\, “How can I keep this going after I leave?” How can I keep this way of experiencing when I go out of the gate? Grass and weeds are often used as images of our ideas and concepts—delusions.  \nDongshan appears to be encouraging them to go to a place where there are no delusions\, no concepts. Perhaps they have had glimpses of that place during their long retreat. They might hear his encouraging words as a recommendation to hold on to those glimpses tightly as they go out of the gate. If they are attached to those glimpses\, they might feel that inside the gate is such a place but outside the gate is not. \nWhen we began to have retreats online\, via Zoom\, the question about bringing the place of no grass back home was eliminated\, physically at least. Sitting at home together with others sitting at their homes leads to that same place of no grass—but I’m already home. The whole question about inside and outside of the gate would seem to be eliminated. But rather than eliminated\, it becomes clear that it’s not about my physical location\, or what I am doing. There is no inside or outside of the gate. \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-17-3/
LOCATION:PZI Online Temple
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Hugging the Golden-Haired Lion
DESCRIPTION:A student asked Yunmen\, “What is the pure and everlasting body of reality?”\nYunmen said\, “A fence of flowers and healing herbs.”\nThe student asked\, “What’s it like when I reach there?”\nYunmen said\, “Golden haired lion!” \nAnother time when Yunmen was asked a similar question\, his reply was “dried shitstick.” Reminds me of Zhaozhou’s response to a similar question\, which was\, “Oak tree in the garden.” That’s what the pure and everlasting body of reality looks like\, sounds like\, acts like. That the image of a golden haired lion is used in reference to the intertwined nature of the real and the provisional\, emptiness and form\, is interesting\, but I doubt Yunmen had that in mind when he said it. I doubt he had anything in mind when he said it. \nI receive an inordinate number of videos featuring people hugging\, being hugged by\, rolling around with and generally being amazingly intimate with big lions\, tigers\, and all manner of big cat. I love seeing them and wish I could have a big cat with which I could to do that\, too.  \nWhat if Yunmen felt that way\, and saw the student who asked the question as a golden haired lion that he wanted to roll around with? The verse to the case would appear not to be so kind to either Yunmen\, or the student: \nA fence of flowers and healing herbs. Don’t look so stupid!\nThe pointer is on the scale arm\, not on the measuring pan.\n“…When one goes on that way…”  —What a foolish thing to say! A golden-haired lion. Everybody look! \nIndeed\, everybody look! Here are a couple of ways that a golden haired lion can look. \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-17-2/
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 \nSign up now for August 3rd\, 2024 \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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-3-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:Saturday Conversations
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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