Sep 25, 2009
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...
Sep 18, 2009
Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center
on November 16, 2008.
"In the teaching hall, the master said, 'The spiritual light shines
alone, far transcending the senses and their fields. The essential
substance is exposed, real and eternal. It is not contained in
written words. The nature of mind...
Sep 11, 2009
Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center
on November 16, 2008.
"Somehow, a process started to happen where things went from [being
very freeform] to being very much sectarian. Things started to
close down, people started to need to self-identify their group as
distinct from other groups, and...
Sep 3, 2009
Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen
Center on November 12, 2008.
"A man sitting in a mountain pass --
robed in clouds, tricked out in sunset's rose.
In his fingers a fragrant flower, to pass along,
but the road's so long and hard to climb!
In his mind: disappointment and doubt;
old as he...