Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center weekend retreat on April 18th 2009, this Dharma Talk by Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on April 15th 2009, this Dharma Talk and discussion explores the Zen teachings on liturgy with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.  At the end of the talk, the sounds of the sangha chanting the Boshisattva vows, the three bows and Rinsen's exit have been kept, and at the end of the discussion the community news has been included as well, with a special hello to Karen in DC!

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on April 9th 2009, this Dharma Talk and discussion explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on April 1st 2009, this Dharma Talk and discussion explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on March 25th 2009, this Dharma Talk and discussion explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on March 18th 2009, this talk and discussion about how the spiritual path begins and explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.  

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on March 11th 2009, this talk and discussion explores the history of the religious practice of making offerings and the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Rev. Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on March 4th, 2009, after a brief initial discussion of the practice of chanting and liturgy in Zen training, this talk and discussion explores the teachings of Huang Po with Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on February 25th 2009, this talk and discussion explores the Zen teaching of Huang Po with Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on February 22nd, 2009, this is the third of three podcasts from an afternoon workshop exploring the life and teachings of Huang Po (D. 850) with Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on February 22nd, 2009, this is the second of three podcasts from an afternoon workshop exploring the life and teachings of Huang Po (D. 850) with Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Recorded at the Toledo Zen Center on February 22nd, 2009, this is the first of three podcasts from an afternoon workshop exploring the life and teachings of Huang Po (D. 850) with Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik.

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Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on February 18, 2009.

Walking is Chan, and sitting is Chan.
Speaking or silent, moving or still,
The essence is at peace.
Even under threat of sword and spear,
It's undisturbed.
Even a cup of poison won't destroy this serenity.
--Yung Chia, "Song of Realizing the Way"

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Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on February 11, 2009.

This single perfect nature pervades all natures;
The sole universal dharma encompasses all dharmas.
One moon shines in the water everywhere
And all the reflected moons are just that one moon.
--Yung Chia, Song of Realizing the Way

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Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on February 4, 2009.

A genuine follower of the mahayana bodhisattva path is neither attached to the world nor attached to liberation from it; neither filled with desire nor filled with aversion. She or he will not cling to or run away from anything.
--Chan Master Sheng-yen

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Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 25, 2009.

On the fifth day after the rise of spring,
Everywhere the season's gracious attitudes!
The white sun gradually lengthening its course;
The blue-gray clouds hanging as though they would fall.
The last icicle breaking into splinters of jade;
The new stems marshalling red sprouts.
The things I meet are full of gladness:
It is not only I who love the spring.
To welcome the flowers, I stand in the back garden;
To enjoy the sunlight, I sit under the front eaves.
Yet still in my heart, there lingers one regret:
Soon I shall part with the flame of my red stove!
--Po Chu'i

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Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 25, 2009.

"For restful thoughts, one does not need space;
The room where I lie is 10 foot square.
By the western eaves, above the bamboo twigs,
From my couch, I can see the white mountain rise.
But the clouds that hover on its far distant peak
Bring shame to a face that is buried in the world's dust."
--Po Chu'i

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Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 25, 2009.

"It's said that [Po Chu'i] would read every one of his poems to an uneducated person... but he would make sure that it made sense to people, that at least it was comprehensible in some way. He held to a Confucian ideal that said that poetry is, at some level or other, to educate... not simply just for idle entertainment."

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