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Encountering the Ancestors: Pai Chang (part 3 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Pai Chang (part 3 of 3)
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2009
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Podcast episode
Description
Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on November 16, 2008."This principle is originally present in everyone. All the Buddhas and bodhisattvas may be called people pointing out a jewel. Fundamentally, it is not a thing - you don't need to know or understand it, you don't need to affirm or deny it. Just cut off dualism; cut off the supposition 'it exists' and the supposition 'it does not exist.' Cut off the supposition 'it is nonexistent' and the supposition 'it is not nonexistent.' When traces do not appear on either side, then neither lack nor sufficiency, neither profane nor holy, not light or dark. This is not having knowledge, yet not lacking knowledge, not bondage, not liberation. It is not any name or category at all. Why is this not true speech? How can you carve and polish emptiness to make an image of Buddha? How can you say that emptiness is blue, yellow, red or white?"For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org.
Released:
Sep 25, 2009
Format:
Podcast episode
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Obstacles to Practice (part 1 of 3): Jay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation entitled, "Obstacles to Practice," given at the Toledo Zen Center on December 2, 2007. "Today, our mission is to talk a little bit about the things that might get in the way of maintaining a spiritual practice;... by Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast