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Register: Winter Sesshin 2021 – Through Winter Silence Into the New Light
4-DAY RETREAT
JAN 13-17th, 2021
PZI Digital Temple
Donate to the PZI Scholarship Fund – help others attend PZI retreats & sesshins
Donate! – Your contributions to this fund go directly to help PZI offer generous scholarships for attendance at PZI Zen Online 1-day & 2-day retreats, and at our three annual 4-day sesshins in the PZI Digital Temple. We appreciate your gift and you!
Register: Tea with Tathagata – Monday Meditation & Talk with Jon Joseph Roshi
MONDAY December 7
PZI Zen Online: 7pm PST
The Universe
Audio Excerpt: Story of An Impossible Task
PZI Zen Online – The Journey Into Awakening – John Tarrant tells a koan story in which a woman gets a task that seems impossible and which she must practice without fail for a year. As recorded 17 minutes, Sunday Nov 22.
Register: The Journey Into Awakening – Sunday Meditation & Talk with John Tarrant
SUNDAY DEC 13th
PZI Digital Temple: 10:30am
PST The Universe
Audio: The Journey Into Awakening – Kindnesses In Your Wild Temple
PZI Zen Online – People go to wild places to find their true nature? The wild is here, right now, in your own wild temple. Anything can happen in the wildness of now. Small kindnesses open into the silence. The universe is so rich in destinations that you are always already at one! The beauty of joining in meditation in difficult times. As recorded Nov. 29 2020 – Music from Jordan McConnell, Amaryllis Fletcher.
Audio Excerpt: The Ballad of Tam Lin – On the Banks of the Ghost River, John Tarrant Reads
PZI Zen Retreat – Audio excerpt John Reads the Ballad of Tam Lin in which a brave girl helps her lover, caught in the Faery Queens’s caterhaugh (boggy fen), transform. 13:09 minutes. As recorded Oct. 31 2020.
PZI Dharma Theme: Zen Tuesdays – Immensity is Tapping
PZI Zen Online: The four PZI Guanyins reappear for Zen Tuesdays in October 2020. They marvel at the immensity in all things from various perspectives. Drawing inspiration from Jane Hirshfield’s poem ‘Tree’, The Doors ‘Light My fire’, a golden crowned sparrow, a remarkable brother’s life and more. Excerpts and complete audio sessions as recorded in October 2020.
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Through your generosity, you help people find their own path into awakening, keep our doors open to everyone regardless of means, support our teachers, and help our systems run smoothly.
The PZI Scholarship Fund
Your contributions to this fund go directly to help PZI offer generous scholarships for attendance at PZI Zen Online 1-day & 2-day retreats, and at our three annual 4-day sesshins in the PZI Digital Temple. There is no replacement for this generosity.