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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
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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
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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/
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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 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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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
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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-18/2024-09-10/
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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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
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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 (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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240813T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240813T193000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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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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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 \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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240730T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Alchemical Process of Losing and Finding
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nSomeone asked\, “What is meditating and seeing things just as they are?”\nYunmen said\, “A coin lost in the river is found in the river.” \n“Where is my phone? Where are my keys? Where are my glasses?” I ask myself these questions\, accompanied by a sinking feeling in my gut\, multiple times a day. I am not sure if it is getting worse\, or I am getting better at noticing it more. Recently I was looking for a pair of scissors that I had just used and put down\, which had mysteriously disappeared\, though I had not moved. I found the scissors where I left them\, right in front of me. That’s when the koan about the coin lost in the river paid me a visit. \nI remembered that this saying of Yunmen’s was the response to the question\, “What is meditating and seeing things clearly?” Rather than a description of a static state\, Yunmen gives a description of a process. The process is losing and finding and then losing again and finding again. Reminds me of the alchemical process of dissolution and coagulation. \nThose scissors that I was looking for were hidden under a piece of paper that I had placed on top of them. Just like the way I obscure my ability to see things clearly by putting things\, ideas\, my opinions and agendas\, on top of what’s there. Of course\, then there is the added story that I put on top of that\, something along the lines of “Who moved them?” or “Not again!” or “What’s the matter with me?” \nThe fact is\, I lost my attention before I lost the scissors and it found me again in the midst of having lost it. Sometimes an awakening experience is described as remembering something you did not know you had forgotten. It was kind of like that. I noticed that I was clinging to my idea about where I left the scissors and my idea about myself\, when I remembered my attention\, which I had not noticed that I had forgotten. I had the spaciousness to be able to look other places than where I thought I left them. I was able to be aware of other possibilities. \nLost anything lately? Find it? What was that like? \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-16-6/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240723T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Every Day Is a Doorway
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nYunmen said\, “I don’t ask you about before awakening\, say something about after awakening.”\nHe answered himself saying\, “Every day is a good day.” \nThe prospect of every day being a good day is attractive. Equanimity in the midst of chaos sounds like a preferred way for things to go. It’s not uncommon to think that after awakening everything is going to be fine: no more troubles\, no more problems. Attaining Nirvana\, paradise\, is the goal\, right? Depends on what Nirvana means to you. \nMark Twain’s book\, Letters from the Earth\, is a series of letters from Archangel Satan reporting back to God about his creation. One thing that puzzles Satan is the way that humans think of heaven. When they are alive\, they do not look forward to the experience of spending Sunday in church. However\, Satan notes\, their conception of heaven seems to be an eternal Sabbath with angels singing and church bells ringing. \nMore recently\, and similarly\, David Byrne wrote in his song\, Heaven: “Heaven\, heaven is a place\, a place where nothing\, nothing ever happens.” If nothing ever happens\, nothing bad can happen—is that Heaven? The path of meditation is sometimes called the middle way. In pursuit of the ‘middle\,’ we can practice in such a way as to cut off the highs and lows of life\, leaving nothing but the middle\, which is a kind of dead way to live. There are fewer traumas\, but less life too\, and that itself is a trauma. \nYunmen’s good day is not a day when nothing bad happens\, when nothing unwanted happens\, when there are no fires and no smoke\, no positive Covid tests. It is the whole enchilada\, containing it all. Our meditation practice gives us access to a doorway out of our small\, safe\, constructed life into something larger—and that’s good. \nJoin us. \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-16-5/
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: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\n Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nSign up now for July 20th\, 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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-6-2/
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: What Is Your Original Face?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nQuickly\, without thinking good or evil\,\nwhat is your original face before your parents were born? \n—Gateless Barrier Case 23 \nThat word “quickly” quickly got my attention. Some translations don’t have it but most do\, which is interesting. That it has survived all this time as part of the koan speaks to me about the importance of “quickly.” I was reminded that according to Buddhist teachings there are sixty-four thought moments in the snap of a finger. Huineng is encouraging us to be quicker than that. \nI recently saw an article about a skydiver who became the first person to break the sound barrier while skydiving\, going faster than the speed of sound. Huineng is urging us to go faster than the speed of thought\, to break the thought barrier. \nCheck it out\, how quickly do ideas about good or bad\, this or that\, self or other come to mind? \nThe other thing that came along as I was keeping company with this koan was part of last week’s koan\, specifically the part that asks\,“What are you?” \nOriginal face feels like a fitting response. \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-16-4/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240709T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: The Whole World Is Medicine
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nYunmen said\, “Sickness and medicine heal each other.\nThe whole world is medicine. What are you?” \n—Blue Cliff Record Case 87 \nThe first thing that paid a visit as I began keeping company with this saying from Yunmen was remembering that the medication Warfarin\, which is used to prevent blood clots\, is also the main ingredient of rat poison. Poison and medicine exactly correspond. \nThen a saying of Hongzhi came to mind: \nMedicine and sickness are a pair difficult to separate. When the bottom is filled with rubbish\, just walk through the sludge. Do not laugh at the snail\, meandering in its own slime. \nIn the Tibetan meditation tradition\, people who practice meditation for the benefit of other people\, bodhisattvas\, are likened to peacocks: It is said that the brilliant colors in a peacock’s tail feathers come from the fact that the peacock eats poison and transmutes this into brilliant colors.  \nAs yucky as snail slime might be to us\, it’s what allows the snail to glide along in the way it does. When my mind is filled with rubbish that gets in the way of my experiencing the moment as it is arising\, trying to get rid of that rubbish creates more rubbish.  \nTo be able to find our life in the midst of the rubbish and sludge is not to “make do” with a bad situation\, but to glide along like that snail\, appreciating how rubbish and treasure are a pair difficult to separate. \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-16-3/
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: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 Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi\nOnline on Zoom from 8–10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nSign up now for June 22nd\, 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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-6-3/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
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:20240702T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240702T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Visits in the Cold and the Heat?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA student asked Dongshan\, “When cold and heat come\, how can we avoid them?”\nDongshan said\, “Why don’t you go to the place where there is no cold or heat?”\nThe student asked\, “Where’s the place with neither cold nor heat?”\nDongshan said\, “When it’s cold\, the cold kills you. When it’s hot\, the heat kills you.” \nAs I spend time with this koan from Dongshan about heat and cold\, I’ve been visited by a number of other koans. First there was Zhaozhou\, when someone asked him\, “When times of great difficulty visit us\, how should we meet them?” And he said\, “Welcome.” \nThen Linji came along and said\, “Wherever you are\, just take the role of host and that will be a true place.” \nThen there was Yunyan telling Dongshan\, “Just this is it.” \nWord of the party got out and a number of koans from the miscellaneous collection came along. \nStop the sound of the distant temple bell\nPut out the fire across the river\nStop the dogs barking at midnight\nExtinguish the star\nMake the mountain dance\nHide in a pillar\n \nOf course there was also Dongshan’s\, “Now it is me\, I now am not it.” \nThe other thing that happened was being reminded of an earlier time in my practice when I mistook submission for surrender. \nWhat strings in other koans get plucked for you? \n—David Weinstein \n\nDavid Weinstein Roshi\n  \nEveryone is welcome here no matter how you are feeling\, where you come from\, what you believe. \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-16-2/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240625T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: You Are Huichao
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\nA student asked Fayan\, “I am Huichao. What is Buddha?”\nFayan replied\, “You are Huichao!”\n \nYuanwu\, the compiler of the Blue Cliff Record had this to say about this koan: \n“People of later times just made-up interpretations of these words. Some say\,‘Huichao is himself Buddha; that is why Fayan answered as he did.’ Some say\, ‘It’s much like riding an ox searching for an ox.’ Some say\, ‘The asking is it.’ How is any of this relevant? If you go on understanding like this\, not only do you turn against yourself\, but you seriously demean that ancient teacher.” \nThat pretty much takes away any rational understanding that I might have about this koan. \nWhat’s left? \nJoin us. \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-15-4/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240618T193000
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SUMMARY:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: What Is the Teaching That Lasts a Lifetime?
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\nA student asked Yunmen\, “What is the teaching that lasts a lifetime?”\nYunmen replied\, “Say something in response.” \n\n\n\n\nWhen I was queried about newsletter copy for our Tuesday Zen gathering (this one)\, my response was\, “Oh shit\, I completely forgot!” It was day five of our seven-day retreat and I was completely unstuck in time. \nThen another koan came to keep me company along with Yunmen’s “Say something in response\,” which was Baizhang’s “Say something without moving your lips or tongue.” \n\n\n\n\nWhat do you say to that? \n\n\n—David Weinstein \n\n\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-15-3/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240611T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240611T193000
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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 June18th. \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-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240608T100000
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SUMMARY:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-5-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
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: Zhaozhou's Dog
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”\n“Yes\,” replied Zhaozhou.\n“Then why did it jump into that bag of fur?”\n“It knew what it was doing and that’s why it dogged.” \nAnother time a student asked Zhaozhou\, “Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?”\n“No\,” said Zhaozhou.\n“All beings have Buddha nature. Why doesn’t a dog have it?”\n“Because it’s beginning to awaken in the world of ignorance.” \n—Book of Equanimity Case 18 & Gateless Gate Case 1 \nThis isn’t exactly the same as the koan we sat with this past week—it is and it isn’t. That seems appropriate\, like Zhaozhou saying a dog does and does not have Buddha nature.  \nSpending time with this koan has been the occasion for me to ask myself what I think about Buddha nature. As I spent time with the koan\, some help came along from Yunmen: “Whatever is as it truly is contains everything. It neither arises nor disappears and is neither defiled nor pure.” That feels like a satisfactory way to think about Buddha nature. \nIt has also been the occasion for me to remember an encounter between Zhaozhou and his teacher Nanquan regarding the Dao: \nZhaozhou asked Nanquan\, “What is the Dao?”\nNanquan said\, “Ordinary mind is the Dao.”\nZhaozhou asked\, “Should I try to direct myself toward it?”\nNanquan said\, “If you try to direct yourself you betray your own practice.”\nZhaozhou asked\, “How can I know the Dao if I don’t direct myself?”” \nNanquan said\, “The Dao is not subject to knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion\, not knowing is blankness. If you truly reach the genuine Dao\, you will find it as vast and boundless as outer space. How can this be discussed at the level of affirmation and negation?” \nWith these words\, Zhaozhou had sudden realization. \nWith this conversation between Zhaozhou and Nanquan in mind\, it’s hard for me not to appreciate the dog koan as an occasion for Zhaozhou to present a kind of homage to his old teacher. \nWhat kind of occasion has it been for you? If you are there on Tuesday\, it will be an occasion for you to share it with others in a breakout room. \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-15-2/
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:TUESDAY ZEN with David Weinstein: Golden Wind
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER\n\nA student asked Yunmen\, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall\, what’s that?”\nYunmen said\, “The Golden Wind reveals itself.” \nThis koan came along at just the right time; funny how that happens.  \nMy wife had flown to Japan to accompany her 88-year-old mother back here for a visit. When we asked her mom what she wanted to do during her stay\, as she has been here many times over the last thirty-five years\, she said she wanted to see the White House in Washington\, DC\, and wanted to go by train. So … we got tickets and hotel reservations and contacted our representative in Congress regarding a White House tour.  \nThe plan was to go by Amtrak down the coast from Oakland to LA. We would spend the night and next day in LA exploring\, then get on another Amtrak taking us to Chicago via the southwest route. Michael and Brooke Wilding were even going to meet us at our brief stop in Laming\, New Mexico\, to give us grapplesnaps for the trip. We were to arrive in Chicago at midday in time to take an architectural boat tour of Chicago that had been highly recommended. The next day we would fly to DC\, arriving right before our tour of the White House.  \nIt sounded like a great adventure … but we had a different great adventure that began the morning of our departure\, when my wife woke up with a fever and positive Covid test. \nInstead of our adventure to DC we had the adventure of isolating together for a week. As the plans for our trip withered and reservations fell into credits to be used sometime in the future\, there was the golden wind of my wife getting Paxlovid and recovering\, and her 88-year-old mother and I somehow not getting sick. There was also just spending time together\, not distracted by the great adventure of traveling. Taking care of each other\, worrying about each other\, feeling the time together. \nAs for that “just the right time” thing I mentioned at the beginning—when I saw that our koan this week was the Golden Wind\, we were already on the other side of our Covid adventure. But I recognized that it had been keeping me company all along. Sometimes it happens like that. The “right time” is now. \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-14-5/
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:SATURDAY ZEN: For PZI Members – Conversations with David Weinstein
DESCRIPTION:If you are a PZI Member and would like to have a conversation with David\,\nbook your 15-minute online meeting HERE. \n\nSaturday Conversations with David Weinstein Roshi are held online on Zoom\n8:00 –10:00 am Pacific Time\nEvery two weeks \nDana gratefully accepted. \nQuestions? Contact David \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
URL:https://www.pacificzen.org/event/saturday-zen-for-pzi-members-conversations-with-david-weinstein-4-2-2/
LOCATION:Saturday Conversations
CATEGORIES:PZI Zen Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Weinstein Roshi":MAILTO:dweinstein@pacificzen.org
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