New at Pacific Zen Institute
The Great Way: Un-Knowing Difficulty, A Suburban Retreat with Jon Joseph
March 15-17, 2019
Mercy Center
Burlingame, CA
Uncertainty Club, Issue 4: Freely I Watch The Tracks of the Flying Birds
We are pleased to announce the publication of the fourth issue of Uncertainty Club, the only known magazine of Zen and the Arts. The theme of the Fall/Winter 2018 issue is a line from an ancient Chinese poet. The line is in our koan curriculum, which means that we meditate with it and see what it offers us, and where it takes us.
The Dragon of Requirement – An Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant
March 21-24
Commonweal Center
Bolinas, CA
Pacific Zen Institute Live on YouTube
We offer free streaming dharma talks three times each month.
1st Mondays: John Tarrant
4th Mondays: Rachel Boughton
4th Wednesdays: David Weinstein
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We are grateful for another year with Pacific Zen Institute – its students, its teachers, its liveliness and kindness in the face of all that is going on in the world. PZI itself is growing and changing, and needs your support to do this.
The Golden Wind – Our 2017 Art Card
A student asked, “When the tree withers and the leaves fall, what is happening?” Yunmen replied, “Body exposed in the Golden Wind.”
Our art card in 2017 features a painting by Jeff Myers and text by John Tarrant on this koan by Yunmen.
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