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Podcast: Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast
Episode: Thoughts Don't Originally Exist
Description: 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...