Jun 17, 2009
Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen
Center on September 24, 2008.
"A Layman asked: 'I'm grateful for your teaching of the unborn, but
I find that thoughts easily come up as a result of my ingrained bad
habits, and when I'm distracted by them, I can't wholeheartedly
realize the unborn. How can I put my faith totally in the unborn
Buddha Mind?'
"The Master said: 'When you try to stop your rising thoughts, you
create a duality between the mind that does the stopping and the
mind that's being stopped, so you'll never have peace of mind.
Just have faith that thoughts don't originally exist, but
only arise and cease temporarily in response to what you see and
hear without any actual substance of their own.'"
- From Master Bankei's Hogo Instructions: Duality.
For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit
toledozen.org.