Jan 30, 2010
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...
Jan 21, 2010
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...
Jan 14, 2010
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...
Jan 7, 2010
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...