PZI Events Calendar
W E L C O M E to the PZI Events Calendar! Here you will find all upcoming events and registration links for PZI Zen Online retreats, sesshins, and weekly meditations & talks. Search by individual event, day, or month. Save to your Google Calendar or iCal Calendar. No experience required to participate. All event times are Pacific Time. Questions? Contact Lucas at PZI Support.
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April 26: What Is This Light That Everybody Has? – Deep Sit Sunday Zen with John Tarrant & Tess Beasley
May 7–10: Say A True Word & I Will Stay The Night – Open Mind Retreat with John Tarrant, Tess Beasley, & Allison Atwill
June 8–14: Dragons & Tigers, Oh My! – Our Great Summer Sesshin with John Tarrant & PZI Teachers
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SUNDAY ZEN: John Tarrant on His New Book – The Story of the Buddha
Pacific Zen Institute & Point Reyes Books Present:
Tess Beasley in Conversation
with Zen Teacher, Author, & Poet John Tarrant
On His New Book: The Story of the Buddha
Sunday January 5th, 2025
10:30–12:00 pm Pacific Time
Join us online for a presentation and conversation on John Tarrant’s newest book, The Story of the Buddha. The newly released hardcover book with beautiful, high-quality imagery is now available in the PZI Online Store.
Prefer to listen? The audiobook is also available with narration by John himself.
Donations of $250 or greater to the PZI year end fund will receive a signed copy!
John Tarrant is a Zen teacher, author, and poet and is PZI’s founder and director. He is interested in Zen as a Way that transforms the mind and in the dance between innovation and tradition in both teaching and practice.
Zen as a set of rules and procedures is not so interesting to me. I learned Zen when we were still trying to find what worked in the West. And people now seem to find freedom more naturally than I had assumed during my own initial studies.
My experiments have led me to trust people more than I once did, and to teach people to trust their own moves. To me this means that koans are not a gadget that you put all your effort into using. They’re an environment—you wander around and they teach you. You have to listen and look.
